TO PORT CHALMERS AND BACK BY RAILWAY.

Evening Star, Issue 3017, 19 October 1872, Page 2

TO PORT CHALMERS AND BACK BY RAILWAY.

The rails being now laid through from the Railway Jetty at Port Chalmers to Hanover s-treet, Dunediu, we yesterday performed our first journey to the Port and back on one of Fairlic’s engines, and much we enjoyed it. As the line is not yet ballasted, it is a question of care rather than speed. The engine is employed in transporting rails, sleepers, and other material from the Port to that portion of the line still unfinished. Yesterday a train of empty trucks was dr iwu to the Port, and on the return journey a similar number of loaded waggons was pushed along rapidly and steadily from the Port to > auover street. The smoothness with which the engine traversed the curves, and the absence of that oscillation which all who have travelled on engines know to be usual, tend to prove not only that the line is well and substantially laid, but that the qualities of the Fairlie engines are not overrated. The railway pier is now 800 feet long, and is rapidly approaching completion, at least so far as present arrangements are concerned. The ballasting of the line has yet to be done, so that it will be some weeks before it is open for traffic.