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The Hutt Valley Line was cut by a "southerly buster" with gale-force winds and high tides which washed-out 1.5 km (1 mile) of track, leaving rails and sleepers suspended in mid-air and the evening train from Wellington stranded in the middle. Traffic from Ngauranga to Petone was halted for a week until 6 April after a workforce of 300 men ...
The Hutt Valley Branch officially became part of the Wairarapa Line on 1 March 1954. All Hutt Valley and Wairarapa train services commenced using the new route with the old route up the western side of the Hutt Valley having been closed to all traffic the previous day.
SH 2 follows the Hutt River down the valley, passing the cities of Upper Hutt and Lower Hutt to the west, to reach the northern end of Wellington Harbour at Petone. From central Upper Hutt, SH 2 widens to a 2+1 road before widening further to four lanes divided at Silverstream, before finally becoming expressway standard with grade-separated ...
Water one metre (3 ft 3 in) deep covered a 1.6-kilometre-long (1-mile) section of the Hutt Road. [4] The extensive flooding cut off Wellington from the Hutt Valley and the rest of the North Island. Thousands of commuters were stranded in the city, so Mayor Michael Fowler made the town hall available as a refuge for those with nowhere to stay. [4]
The conference was cancelled after news of the accident broke, a spokesperson for the association said. ‘One of the best guys I have ever met’: tributes to Ohio bus crash victims start flooding in
The Hutt Expressway (often erroneously referred to as the Hutt Motorway) is a 3-4 lane divided highway running from the Wellington Urban Motorway at Ngauranga, past Lower Hutt and central Upper Hutt, to the intersection with Fergusson Drive in Maoribank in north-eastern Upper Hutt.
The tangled mess at Bristol-Oxford Valley and North Oxford Valley roads will be reconfigured out to Lincoln Highway (Route 1) with the stop signs will be replaced with traffic signals.
D.C. firefighters said a vehicle plunged into the Potomac River after being involved in a crash the Arlington Memorial Bridge. Police are investigating whether wintry weather played a role in the ...