TRAINS CANCELLED

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 229, 24 June 1944, Page 6

TRAINS CANCELLED

Heavy Flooding On Taieri Plain (Bv Telegraph.—Press Association.) INVERCARGILL, June 23. Heavy flooding bn the Taien Plain has caused considerable inconvenience to train travellers between Dunedin and Invercargill. The 6.15 a.m. InvercargillChristchurch express tomorrow' lias been cancelled, and whether the 1.20 P-m. Invercargill-Dunedin express will run will depend on the state of the floods. 10day’s Dunedin-Invercargill express was cancelled, but a passenger tram came from Milton. This afternoon s express to Dunedin left at the usual time but was uuable to travel further thin Milton.. Two goods trains tonight, one due to leave Invercargill and the other due to leave Dunedin, have been cancelled. OTAGO TRAFFIC AFF ECTED zp_ Telegraph.—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, June 23. Dislocation of the road and rt.il services in Otago was caused by heavy rain which fell continuously from late on Wednesday night to last night. Many roads in North, Central and South Otago were impassable from snow or floods, and there were wash-outs on the main line south and the Otago Central railway this morning. All rail traffic was suspended between Mosgiel and Milton. and Wingatui and Middlemarch. The north line is clear, though the south-bound express from' Christchurch yesterday afternoon encountered a slip near Evansdale and arrived 150 minutes late. The rainfall in Dunedin for 24 hours was two inches.