CRASH INTO SLIP
COAL=LADEN TRAIN WRECKED 18 MILES FROM WESTPORT MIDLAND LINE BLOCKED AGAIN (By Telegraph—Press Association.) GREYMOUTH, This Day. Travelling through rain at 1.45 o’clock this morning, between Tiroroa and Slatey’s Creek, about 18 miles from Westport and ten miles from Inangahua, a coal train with a load of about 500 tons, going frem Greymouth to Westport, crashed into a slip, derailing the locomotive and piling up thirteen laden wagons. No one was injured. it is expected that traffic to Westport will be restored by this evening. The Greymouth-Midland line was blocked again, at about 3.30 yesterday afternoon, by a big slip at Rocky Point. Train services between Greymouth and Christchurch were cancelled last evening and the express did not run from Greymouth this morning. This was the third successive week in which slips at about the same point have caused a cancellation of the express. Work commenced this morning, when an easing of the rain gave hopes that the railway may be cleared by this evening. ’
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 February 1944, Page 4
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