RAILWAY MISHAP

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23691, 24 December 1938, Page 8

RAILWAY MISHAP

NEW CARRIAGE DAMAGED SHUNTING ACCIDENT AT STATION (Per United Press Association) AUCKLAND, Dec. 23. A new second-class carriage which had only just been delivered from the Otahuhu railway workshops was considerably damaged durin rt shunting to-night when it ran through a fence of the Auckland railway station yard and mounted a footpath in Beach road. In its course it ripped a concrete and steel buffer stop at the end of the shunting line right out, and then smashed cleanly through the fence. The edge of the footpath, which has a step down into the yard, was broken into pieces, and the pavement itself was torn up for a distance of several yards. The carriage stopped when it was 15ft across the footpath. The damage to the carriage was confined to the end which had struck the buffer stop. The vestibule was crushed back on to the seating compartment, the steel rods of the envelope being bent into a semicircular shape and the undercarriage was also damaged. After freeing the wheels of the obstacles the carriage was pulled back into the station yards. Another carriage which was coupled to the damaged one when the mishap occurred was not affected.