{"id":488978,"date":"2026-06-21T22:24:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T22:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/488978\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T22:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T22:24:13","slug":"splash-planet-fifteen-people-evacuated-from-train-after-fantasyland-express-gets-stuck-on-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/488978\/","title":{"rendered":"Splash Planet: Fifteen people evacuated from train after Fantasyland Express gets stuck on bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hawkes Bay Today<\/p>\n<p>21 Jun, 2026 07:42 PMQuick 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 train at Splash Planet known as the Fantasyland Express. Photo \/ HDC<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Fifteen people were evacuated from the Fantasyland Express train after it became stranded on a bridge when an axle broke.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A Hastings District Council spokesperson said the passengers were safely evacuated by being taken back through the train and off the rear carriage after the incident about 11am on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cNo one was injured, and everyone remained calm during the evacuation, which took about 15 minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cCouncil will investigate the cause of the incident, and WorkSafe has been notified.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">Fire and Emergency NZ was called to the scene as a precaution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hawkes Bay Today 21 Jun, 2026 07:42 PMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,245228,6743,1565,46300,40488,53958,127087,68548,71,6276,111,43,139,69,90,384,19794,131833,12507,29460,11685,3608,1316],"class_list":["post-488978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-axle","tag-became","tag-bridge","tag-broke","tag-evacuated","tag-express","tag-fantasyland","tag-fifteen","tag-from","tag-gets","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-people","tag-planet","tag-splash","tag-stranded","tag-stuck","tag-train","tag-were","tag-when"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488978","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=488978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}