TRUCKS DERAILED
MILE OF LINE DAMAGED. ( MISHAP NORTH OF AUCKLAND. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, May 5. Almost a mile of the railway track was damaged, sleepers splintered and siding points rendered useless, when two trucks on a north-bound mixed train left the rails about a mile south of Taupaki, 22 miles north-west of Auckland, at 8.30 o’clock this morning.
Though the trucks were dragged by the train the crew and passengers were unaware of the accident until Taupaki was reached. The cause of the accident, which occurred on a straight section of rail, is unknown. The first wagon to leave the line was the fourth or fifth from the engine, being a ten-ton truck carrying basic slag. It apparently jumped the rails and was dragged for nearly a mile with the wheels ripping the track. The next truck in the line was also dragged off the rails. Both undercarriages and, about a mile of sleepers will have to be replaced. Had the points not been damaged it would have been possible to sidetrack main line trains but repairs are not expected to be completed before this afternoon. Meanwhile the Maungatu-roto-Auckland express is delayed at Kumeu and the Whangarei-Auckland express at Waitakerei.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 May 1938, Page 2
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