RAILWAY ACCIDENT
TRUCKS LEAVE LINE. MILE OF TRACK DAMAGED. (By Telegraph —Press Association.) AUCKLAND, May 5. Almost a mile of railway track was damaged, sleepers were splintered, and siding points rendered 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 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 the 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. Apparently it jumped the rails and was dragged for nearly a mile, its wheels- ripping the track. The next truck in line was dragged off the rails. Both under-car-riages and about a mile of sleepers will have to be replaced. It is not expected that repairs will be completed before this afternoon. Meanwhile the Maungaturoto-Auck-land express was delayed at Kumeu and the Whangarei-Auckiand express at Waitakere.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 May 1938, Page 10
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