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Shannon News, 8 October 1926, Page 2

| Flowers pn the line delayed the Main j Trunk Express from Wellington on '.Sunday morning. The train was ylate .'in leaving Frankton, and it was reasonably expected that much of the time would be made up on the run to AuekI land. There had been a particularly I high wind" blowing on Saturday night, and this had caused large quantities of wattle flowers to cover,the# track in the vicinity of liemuera at what is known to railwayman-, as “the little yellow bank. ” The little yellow flowers had also been soaked with heavy rain, and immediately the big express engine ran on to them the wheels began to slip on the rails. This state of affairs continued for some time, and it was partly responsible for the express arriving nearly an hour late at Auckland.