{"id":341767,"date":"2026-03-22T05:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T05:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/341767\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T05:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T05:47:08","slug":"one-seriously-injured-after-explosion-in-steam-engine-train-at-glenbrook-vintage-railway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/341767\/","title":{"rendered":"One seriously injured after explosion in steam engine train at Glenbrook Vintage Railway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/4JRD0WX_glenbrook_jpg.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"677\" alt=\"The Glenbrook Vintage Railway.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nThe incident happened at the Glenbrook Vintage Railway. File photo.<br \/>\nPhoto: Supplied \/ Glenbrook Vintage Railway\n<\/p>\n<p>One person has been seriously injured, after an explosion in the engine compartment of a steam train at Glenbrook Vintage Railway.<\/p>\n<p>Fire and Emergency sent four trucks to the vintage railway station between Glenbrook and Waiuku in southern Auckland just before 4pm.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson said, when firefighters arrived, the blaze was contained inside the engine compartment of the locomotive.<\/p>\n<p>St John Ambulance took one person to Middlemore Hospital in a serious condition.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The incident happened at the Glenbrook Vintage Railway. File photo. Photo: Supplied \/ Glenbrook Vintage Railway One person&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":["post-341767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}