SLOW TRAIN JOURNEYS
EFFECT OF HUGE WASH-OUT P.A. WELLINGTON, May 25. Passengers who left Auckland at 3 p.m. yesterday on the express for Wellington arrived tired but little the worse for wear at 1 p.m. to-day, six hours late, after 22 hours, travelling. The limited, which usually arrives at 9.30 a.m., arrived at 2.30 p.m. The passengers included eight members of Parliament.
A huge chasm about two chains long and 40 feet deep was gouged in a tar-sealed section of the Te KuitiNational Park State highway about two miles north of Taumarunui by pent-up storm water from a blocked culvert on Monday afternoon. Tons of spoil were sluiced on to the Main Trunk railway line below dhe road, and rail traffic was brought to a standstill
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26781, 26 May 1948, Page 8
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126SLOW TRAIN JOURNEYS Otago Daily Times, Issue 26781, 26 May 1948, Page 8
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