THE MAIN TRUNK SLIPS.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 July 1918, Page 7

THE MAIN TRUNK SLIPS.

The two landslips on tl.a Main Trunk l.'iilway liiit? which occurcd on Thursday Hij.'hl, and each of which derailed a {foods train, lias caused a disarrange-iiK-nt (if the express service. Latest Information is to the e fleet t'.'iat the s)m ■'it Maiaroa, near Taiimpe, was cleared 011 Saturday morniw, enabling train traffic to {?et through, and that'the slip near Huntc-rville was expected to be cleared on Monday, so that the pasaenper services were expected to be runnin" to time-table yesterday. ° The details of the derailment of the. poods 1 rains at Mataroa and Silverliope oarlv on J'Yiduy morniw show ti»:it Hio drivers and f.remen had wonderful et capes. Mr A. Tate was drivinsf the train from Ohakmie, which ran into the ItnJWn 15 Vm™ 8 fir p Tin lri l 1 t T ' T- ' fi ln,n, I'L t UnCSOn , ■T r0 7 ; J s:,vi;;da;-,; n ::f't morning at 5.30 o'clock. In the former train the first half-dozen waeons foilowing the engine were smashed, but horse boxes containing four race-horses, and the guard's van, were not damaged. The other train was a longer one, and thirteen of the goods trucks were smashed up. while two were not damaged, one of the latter containing a motor car.