MAIN TRUNK LINE.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 July 1915, Page 3

MAIN TRUNK LINE.

ARRIVAL OF TRAINS. daxcku xkak nrxri.v. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Yesterday. 11 Vilv eominmiication-with WHlin-.-ton was restored yesterday, three express trains arriving in the afttrnoon and cvemng and one departing last night, the obstruction at Tatingamuni. two and a hulf miles north of TannwnuKii, was negotiated by the construction of a temporary track skirting the Weim 01 the accident winch occurred on Friday, and the line was reported clear at nini. o clock yesterday morning. Similar.v railway gangers succeeded in clearing sljps at l'uketutu, I'orotarao, Piriaka, and; Ovhaugo, and a wash-out at Pokako. ■

A new development in the situiMio,'. however, was provided by floods fn th>> \Wikato, the rapid rising of the rivr causing a wash-out one and a-half miK; lioi th of Huntl.v. Ihe first two expresses to reach Auckland vesterdav experienced' no trouble, but the third'was dckvel for an hour while repairs to the track were effected. J.ater the river was stated to be rising steadily. Water was reported at 8 p.m. last night to be within a short distance of the level of the railway line.

Nearly 800 passengers arrived in Auckland yesterday. The first train, arriving at l.:is p.m., was three days overdue, ami many of the passengers had spent four nights on the train. Jt was a trying experience' for all, the trouble commencing when the train ran into a mass of earth and boulders at Viriaka, six and it-hiilf miles south of Taumarnnui, on Thursday morning. "During the subsequent delays owing to slips and washouts the passengers were for a time short of food. There was no gas in the train, and candles in lemonade bottles were largely used for lighting purposes.