RAILWAY BLOCKED
SUP IN MANAWATU GORGE express trains diverted Press Association PALMERSTON N.. Today. All rail tragic is blocked by a heavy landslide which fell in the Manawatu Gorge about 7 a.m. yesterday. The line is covered lor about two chains. Clearance gangs were dispatched from Palmerston North immediately jo remove the mass, which comprised hundreds of tons of rock and debris. About fifty men began working on the slip at full pressure from both ends of the blockage. Arrangements W€.re made for the work to be carried on by a night shift from 5 p.m Yesterday the Wellington-Napier and Napier-Wellington expresses were Diverted by way of the Wairarapa ■me and passengers on other trains Were transhipped by motor-cars traveling between Woodville and Palmerston. R is probable that the debris may ake some days to clear.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 873, 17 January 1930, Page 1
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