LOCOMOTIVE DERAILED
TWO EXPRESSES DELAYED AUCKLAND AND WELLINGTON [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] NEW PLYMOUTH, Monday The derailment of the front wheels of the locomotive of a goods train at Fitzroy this evening caused delay to the outward express for Auckland for over an hour, and to the inward express from Wellington for over an hour and a-half. No damage was done. The derailment occurred an hour before the Auckland express was timed to leave, and while the locomotive was being jacked back on to the rails the Wellington express was held at Leppertou, tho passengers being brought to New Plymouth in buses.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22963, 15 February 1938, Page 10
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