THROUGH TRAFFIC
OX MAIN TRUNK LINE
REPAIR WORK EXPEDITED
NO TRANSHIPMENTS NOW
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
TAUMARUNUI, This Day.
The Main Trunk line is now sufficiently clear to allow trains to get through without the need of transhipping passengers by buses, though' a considerable amount of work still remains to be done. Drivers of buses were instructed to be rtrxdy at midnight to transport passengers between Taumarunui and Kakahi.
At 3.30 a.m. today word came through that the Okahukura. repair work was sufficiently advanced to allow the express from Auckland to go through', and she arrived at Taumarunui at 4.30 a.m. Just before she arrived advice was received here that the repair work between' Taumarunui and Kakahi had reached the stage when it was safe for trains to pass over the obstructions, and the bus drivers were notified at 4.15 a.m. that they were not required. The express from Auckland, with 118 passengers, went south at 5.15 a.m., and the express from "Wellington, with 150 passengers,.arrived at Taumarunui at 8 a.m., leaving for Auckland at 8.25 a.m.
The railway authorities worked tirelessly all day yesterday and until the early hours this morning. Their feat in clearing the line so expeditiously
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 72, 27 March 1933, Page 8
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199THROUGH TRAFFIC Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 72, 27 March 1933, Page 8
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