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railway accident at MATAROA. LINE TEMPORARILY BLOCKED. (Bv Telegraph—Pres? Association.) ( y WANGANUI, October 26. The Main Trunk line was temporarily blocked at 3.10 p.m. today, when 14 wagons attached to a special fi eight train running between Taumarunui and Taihape left the rails at the south end of Mataroa station. The engineers expect to have tne wreckage cleared by 3 a.m. tomorrow, but in the meantime the express which left Wellington at 3 p.m. today for Auckland has been diverted to the Stratford-Okahukura line. The additional running time is approximately three and a half hours.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 October 1942, Page 2
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97WAGONS DERAILED Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 October 1942, Page 2
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