HAWKES BAY TRAIN LATE.

Shannon News, 12 January 1926, Page 3

HAWKES BAY TRAIN LATE.

GOODS TRAIN DERAILED. A goods train, en route to Pal■merston North fronii the Hawtces Bay yesterday morning, was derailed-at a crossing at Papatawa, near Woodville. , The early train from Palraerston 'North to Napier leilt as- usual and exchanged passengers at the scene of tine, accident with the train from Waipukurau, the. two trains taking up each other's running to maintain Itfce time-tahle. A train was- dispat- • ched from PalmeTston North dusting Ithe forenoon to bring on passengers twanshipped lrom' the N&pier-Wel- ' lingtom express; while it was pur-. "posed to tranship passengers by the Wefllington-Napier express also. • Breakdown gangs were speedily (despatched to Papatawa and later in the day a train isvjrth heavy cranes land the other necessary equipment •from Wellington passed through Shannon en route to the scene of the .denalilment. The accident to the train while serious enough to call for the, services of the special breakdown train and crew from Wellington, did not, it was stated, cause any injury to the passengers or railwlaymen. The Napier Express was running nearly two hours late, reaching Shannon at 3.36 instead of 1.45 p.m.