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SNAPPED WIRE CAUSES
RAIL HOLD-UP
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Artarmon
Congestion
A window of a packed electric
train was shattered and trains banked
up for almost two miles when an over
head wire snapped, near Arta.rmon sta-
tion about 8.30 a.m. today.
The Uoid'Up wm deserihed m
one of the werst , far months
Th&mmnds were lute far wwft.
Railway authorities, in
an attempt to ease the
conges t i o n, introduced
single line working, but
this was not put into
operation until about
three-quarters of an hour
after the mishap.
Services were restored to nor
mal at 9.40 after repair gangs
had replaced the broken wire.
Before the service was restor
ed, officials ran a loop service to'
Wynyard from the next station
down— St. Leonards— and were
able to shift large- crowds of
waiting passengers.
Most of the passengers on the
long lint of trains .banked up
on the Chatswood side of the
hold-up streamed across to
Pacific Highway, where they
caught buses or hailed private
motorists going to 'the city.;
Others left trains at- Chats-
wood and caught trams to the
city..
When the overhead wire
broke and- crashed against the
window of, the leading carriage,
no one: was injured. . ;
Mrs. H. Sinclair, . Pindlay
Ave.. Roseville, who: was in the
carriage, said that startled pas
sengers Jumped from their
seats when glass fragments felT
to the floor. «
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