A brake fault stopped a freight train leaving Tauranga today in its tracks – 500m inside the 8.9km Kaimai Tunnel.
The fault resulted in the train losing air pressure which locked the brakes on, says a KiwiRail spokesperson.
'The driver, who was the sole crew member, secured the train and walked out of the tunnel,” says the spokesperson.
'Another locomotive will recover the train shortly.”
Tauranga emergency services were notified as normal procedure.
1 comment
golly gosh
Posted on 02-05-2017 16:20 | By old trucker
I remember when this opened and we rode over Thompsons track Matamata side and and come around and rode through this side you can see the end about a old fifty cent piece size at other end, its really dark in there and you can get up to 60 k and then you have to lift ya bike up to the next level and so on, just a memory now,those were the days,Great News Sunlive,Thankyou 10-4 out,
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