{"id":342422,"date":"2026-03-22T16:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T16:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/342422\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T16:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T16:05:09","slug":"one-seriously-injured-after-explosion-in-steam-engine-train-at-glenbrook-vintage-railway-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/342422\/","title":{"rendered":"One seriously injured after explosion in steam engine train at Glenbrook Vintage Railway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>22 Mar, 2026 05:52 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">The incident happened at the Glenbrook Vintage Railway, south of Auckland. Photo \/ Glenbrook Vintage Railway<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">One person has been seriously injured after an explosion in the engine compartment of a steam train at the Glenbrook Vintage Railway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Fire and Emergency New Zealand sent four trucks to the vintage railway station between Glenbrook and Waiuku in southern Auckland just before 4pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Fire and Emergency<br \/>\n         said that when firefighters arrived, the blaze was contained inside the engine compartment of the locomotive.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 22 Mar, 2026 05:52 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,1975,32878,40737,182818,78,10933,111,43,139,69,5270,46868,23419,3448,11685,27627],"class_list":["post-342422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-at","tag-engine","tag-explosion","tag-glenbrook","tag-in","tag-injured","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-one","tag-railway","tag-seriously","tag-steam","tag-train","tag-vintage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342422","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=342422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}