LIMITED DELAYED.

Waikato Times, Volume 120, Issue 19946, 24 July 1936, Page 6

LIMITED DELAYED.

DIRAILMEN‘I’ or VAN. NEW ROUTE COVERED. (By Telegraph—Press Associstion.) WELLINGTON. Thursday. Prevented by the derailment of a van in the Johnsonville railway yard from using the usual route. the limited express left. VV'ellinston to-nlght via the 'l‘awa flat. deviation, ng‘ht goods trains have used the new line for many months and the rallears have occasionally run over it. but. the par sengers in to-night‘s express were the first travellers by a regular trsln to be taken over the new route. The irain left W'ellington nearly two hours late. but it is expected to make up some of the lost. time" beiore it arrlvos at Auckland. Other tranlc was 'only slightly disorganised. ’ ARIIIVAL A'l' IRAIKTOII. The Limited express arrived ni Frankton Junction at 9.5 this morning instead of 6459, Just over two hours late. Some of the time lost at Johnson[ville was made up but the dlmculty oi amusing crossings with south bound ’trnins prevented an earlier Arrival. _