DAMAGE TO THE RAILWAY LINE

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 46, 23 January 1884, Page 3

DAMAGE TO THE RAILWAY LINE

(Chronicle.).. . :: . i Some little excitement existed m town yesterday -morning when it wasf known thatthaS ths early trains to the 8,011 th had been stuck iip a few mileff from! Wanganui, it£ copseq^ence'-c^ 4 portion : ' : of liije Deirf^ washed a*avj I lie dainage ; which ■ j W«s 1 ; obcksi6nea ; by the heavy rains of the last^few Hays, took- ,>laQejduving Monday ©igVfe ,: S»4 conswted of a small part of jtlu? line i^g washed a^av ; near Cherty"Banlc t and l ilverarcnainßjvkshe'd away.'betwfienj Okoia and Matai-awa,, Greek. At this Bport^.where a similar disaMer occurred two years- ago, the creek had become aq Swollen, by the rains that the gravel wa3 ; wfthed conipletely from between tliQ.sleepe^, ana a- part of the.found^i tionitarried awnyj the Jine. itself being yesterday'motnitt'g'ttnder three feet of water:' (1 A special train left Watigrinui at 5.50. a.m. bound for Foxton, but wa^ stopped ,1 >y tile coridition of the 'line .at c Cneifv i 'iJank, and returned to toWii at 'a°'4 ; iiart^ to 7 L o'elofek. : Sleepers Were taken 1 oiit 1 fi^m^Eastown at orice, an 4 the line, was quickly repaired at Cherry /B^ank, the authorities; being at tins tinie unaware of the more serious mishap bej yond Okoia. . The ordinary 8 o'clock 1 train 'was detipalched from and passed safely over the line till the big gap of several tftiftins was reached The train ireiitrned directly, flic carriages and pa&seugeTS being left at Eas; town Lj aiid [> tne : crigine : , cowing on to, Wanganni. : Uiliinaiet)r ihe passengers by tne Fb'ttibri train to Wahgittfuv and those going south to Foxton had to cross the gap on •troUie.s to yeaoh the train on the other side,. Jthe resulc being that ; lbe n ;|>asßeq«e^ for Fo^ton r-fririyed there about ii , houijs ulatey and thbs^ for WAtJganui. cjaflfe intp,.tfi^n 3. hours ■latei! ■••«'■•'•'■ ---^-^l- •-■-' > t'f"-::»r- ■■■'-' j