TRAINS DELAYED
RIMUTAKA INCLINE MISHAP. i - ENGINE AXLE BREAKS. While the train, which left Masterton yesterday afternoon for Wellington was being hauled up the Rimutaka Incline an axle on one of the Pell engines broke. Traffic between the Wairarapa and the city was consequently delayed for some time. The train which left Wellington at 4.15 p.m. was delayed at the Summit from about (6.15 p.m. until about 7.25 p.m., arriving in Masterton a little over an hour behind normal schedule time.
The mishap occurred at the section known as " Siberia’ 7 and about one mile from the Summit. However, the railway officials expedited the haulage of the south train in sections through the long tunnel to the Summit. The task was carried out most successfully despite the fact that there were attached three meat waggons and two waggons containing racehorses for the Trentham meeting. At the Summit the train for Wellington was rearranged, when the second section was brought from the scene of the accident and dispatched on its journey at 6.40 p.m. The racehorse .waggons and one or two of the passenger coaches were left temporarily at the Summit.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 19 January 1933, Page 4
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190TRAINS DELAYED Wairarapa Daily Times, 19 January 1933, Page 4
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