MAIN HIGHWAYS OBSTRUCTION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26623, 20 November 1947, Page 9

MAIN HIGHWAYS OBSTRUCTION

Sir, —When I was travelling Irom the south to Dunedin on Friday morning oy car, a goods train, apparently bound for Dunedin, pulled up across the main road on the south side of Waipahi, iust as I arrived there at 11.10 o'clock. Aftei I had waited about 10 minutes and other cars had arrived, I asked the guard if it would be a long wait. Wishing to be helpful he uncoupled the train and endeavoured by whistle and waving of arms to signal the engine driver to move forward a little and give sufficient space to pass, but all to no avail. He then went forward to the engine but nothing happened as a result of his effort. After about half an hour's wait the drivers of the cars on the south side of the train found it was possible to get round a side road down over the hill and out by the crossing at the north side of Waipahi station It 1 may be useful to others to know this. The driver of a motor truck which was held up said this kind of thing happened quite frequently on the Main road further south, but this was his first experience at Wai-pahi.—-I am etc.* Peeved. [An official of the . Railways Department in Dunedin to whom this letter was referred, said that a delay such as that mentioned by the correspondent was a rare occurrence. Three trains were at the Waipahi station at the time—the Dun-edin-Invercargill express the Tapanui goods train and a mixed train from Invercargill The mixed train had to be held until the Tapanui train. departed.— Ed O.D.T 1