ANOTHER BREAKDOWN
RAILWAY EXCURSIONISTS’ EXPERIENCE. DUNEDIN, Jpne 17. Breakdowns are happening with frequency on the Otago section of the railways. The seaside excursion train to Oamaru with sixty passengers broke down at Waianakqrua yesterday, a connecting rod giving way. A porter was dispatched on a bicycle to the nearest telephone box to communicate with the authorities at Oamaru. Apparently no relief engine was available, as the damaged locomotive was used to haul four carriages to Herbert. The engine then returned to Waianakarua to take on the other three carriages. At Herbert all the passengers were transferred to the first four carriages, and the damaged engine limped into Oamaru at 3.40 p.m., two hours ten minutes behind time.
As the refreshment room, at the Oamaru station was not open, a number of the passengers went into town for a meal, but when they returned they found they had missed the train, which left at 4.20 p.m. for Dunedin. It was a futile trip for all passengers who went to Oamaru for business or pleasure. The passengers who failed to connect with the return train to Dunedin came back on the midnight express from the north.
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 June 1929, Page 2
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194ANOTHER BREAKDOWN Hokitika Guardian, 19 June 1929, Page 2
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