Manawatu Gorge slip set to be costly
The slip which blocked the Manawatu Gorge railway line for nine days is expected to cost KiwiRail several hundred thousand dollars.
A milk train carrying 400,000 litres of milk was derailed by the September 25 slip, which covered the line near Woodville with 10,000 cu. m of earth and rocks.
KiwiRail spokeswoman Ruth Larsen said the cost was expected to be "in the order of several hundred thousand dollars, but less than $1 million".
