AT FUNEREAL SPEED

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17157, 6 October 1926, Page 7

AT FUNEREAL SPEED

AUCKLAND EXPRESS LATE FLOWERS ON THE LINE (Special to the Herald.) AUCKLAND, this day. Many causes have been attributed to delays of railway trains, especially in New Zealand, but probably never in the history of the service in this country has an express train been late in arriving at its destination on account of flowers. This peculiar circumstance happened to the ordinary express from Wellington on Sunday morning* The train was late in leaving Frankton, and it was reasonably expected that- much of the time would be made up on the run to Auckland. There bad been a particularly high wind blowing on Saturday night, and this had caused large quantities of wattle flowers to cover the track in the vicinity of Remuera at what is known to railway men as “the bank." The little yellow (lowers had also been soaked with heavy rain, and immediately the big express engine ran on to them the wheels began to slip on the rails. This state of affairs continued lor some time, and it was partly responsible for the express arriving nearly an hour late at Auckland.