ENGINE DERAILED

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23517, 4 June 1938, Page 8

ENGINE DERAILED

SUBURBAN TRAIN AFFECTED LITTLE DAMAGE DONE (Special to Daily Times) AUCKLAND, June 3. When it was within 120 yards of Auckland Station, a small passenger train coming into the city from Henderson was derailed at about 10 o’clock this morning. None of the passengers or train crew was injured, and the damage was confined to a comparatively slight scoring up of the permanent way A broken spring coil beneath the engine was responsible for the derailment It snapped just as the engine was taking the points which multiply the single track leading off the overhead bridge at Parnell rise into a double track for the run into the station. The break immediately threw the engine into the wrong track and, followed by the mail van, the engine left the rails and ploughed across the edge of the sleepers into the scoria bed. Because of the slow speed to which engines coming from Parnell are restricted, the three carriages of the train did not follow the engine, but continued on the correct line until the stopping of the engine brought them to a halt. The passengers who, for the most part were unaware that there had been a derailment, were asked to walk the short remaining distance to the station. A break-down gang then set to work to clear the track and the carriages and mail van were quickly taken into the station yard. The engine presented rather more difficulty, but it also was removed without any disruption to the normal suburban service being necessary. For several hours a gang of workmen attended to the track.