TUNNEL BLOCKED
LYTTELTON TRAIN HOLD-UP. (Per Press Association — Copyright.) | CHRISTCHURCH, July 1. As a result of an electric locomotive breaking dftwjt/Eihhout 400 passengers on 4 workmen’s train from Lyttelton to Christchurch were held up in the tunnel from 7.22 till 8.40 this morning. The whole service was disorganised for several hours. The trouble was due to a- driving wheel seizing. Eventually shunting engines putted the train back to Lyttelton and it left again about 9 o’clock, arriving without further mishap.
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 July 1932, Page 6
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80TUNNEL BLOCKED Hokitika Guardian, 1 July 1932, Page 6
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