 Garratt class locomotive driven into turntable pit, resulting in disruption to services for days while cranes where brought in to remove the loco.Tuesday 17 April 1956, early in the afternoon a Goods Train drawn by two diesel locomotives rounded a bend on a steep down-grade at slow speed and ten trucks jumped the line.The impact of the derailment hurled the heavy trucks 20 feet in the air, severing the overhead electric wires.