John Arnold_The Evening Post_, 3 August 1923:
MAIN TRUNK EXPRESS
DEPARTURE DELAYED
SLEEPING CARS DERAILED
During #shunting operations at #Thorndon station, at 11.45 this morning, for the assembling of carriages for the north bound Main Trunk express an accident occurred which delayed the departure of the express for an hour and a half. It appears that some of the carriages were being pulled over a pair of “trailing” points, and while half way across some of them started to set back, the points being set for the wrong road. The result was that the bogies of two of the sleeping carriages became derailed, completely blocking the entrance to the carriage road and preventing the assembling of further carriages. An emergency gang was at once put to work on the task of re-railing the derailed cars, and by working assiduously, they were able to accomplish this shortly before 2 o’clock. The train was then assembled and left Thorndon for Auckland at 2.10 p.m., instead of 12.45 p.m. the usual time.
Otherwise traffic was not interfered with, all intermediate trains arriving and departing on time. An inquiry will be held into the accident.
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MAIN TRUNK EXPRESS
DEPARTURE DELAYED
SLEEPING CARS DERAILED
During #shunting operations at #Thorndon station, at 11.45 this morning, for the assembling of carriages for the north bound Main Trunk express an accident occurred which delayed the departure of the express for an hour and a half. It appears that some of the carriages were being pulled over a pair of “trailing” points, and while half way across some of them started to set back, the points being set for the wrong road. The result was that the bogies of two of the sleeping carriages became derailed, completely blocking the entrance to the carriage road and preventing the assembling of further carriages. An emergency gang was at once put to work on the task of re-railing the derailed cars, and by working assiduously, they were able to accomplish this shortly before 2 o’clock. The train was then assembled and left Thorndon for Auckland at 2.10 p.m., instead of 12.45 p.m. the usual time.
Otherwise traffic was not interfered with, all intermediate trains arriving and departing on time. An inquiry will be held into the accident.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19230803.2.88
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