LANDSLIP.

Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 14728, 5 August 1921, Page 5

LANDSLIP.

AN ENGINE DERAILED.

WELLINGTON TRAFFIC INTER-

RUPTED

(A. and N.Z. Cable.) WELLINGTON, August 5. A mishap occurred to a train which left Thofnaon at 5.10 last night for JohnsonA’illo. When it was half-Avay between Ngaio and Khandallah, a landslip of considerable magnitude fell on the leadipg engine.- The train Avas being towed up the hill by two engines. The leading engine was buried in boggy earth, softened by heavy / rains, up to the smokebox, and fts bogey ! became derailed. Fortunately neither the enginedrivers nor the firemen were injured. A Avreclcagc gang was dispatched immediately. Passengers by the expresses from Napier and Nfew Plymouth were transhipped at the slip, and with their luggage, brought on to Thomdon by special trains.

Both trains were about two- hours late in arriving. Tho wreckage gang succeeded in extricating the buried engine, which * was virtually undamaged, and the slip Avas cleared for passing trains before midnight. The Main Trunk express left immediately after th© slip had been cleared.