THE CLUTHA RAILWAY.
Now that the Chain Hills tunnel has been pierced through, very little time will elapse before trains will be running the whole distance from Dunedin to the Clutha, The tunnel will have been completed and rails laid through it within sixteen months of the real commencement of the {work, though six months was occupied at the start in removing landslips at the entrance. Its length is 571 yards, and its lining consists of 14in—and in. places even thicker brickwork. There remains only four chains of the bottom heading to be’taken out and the bricking of this portion 'to bo finished, and if a steady supply of bricks is kept up, little time will be occupied by this work, and then the rails can be laid in a couple of days. We may safely state that the whole line will be completed, including station buildings and sidings, within seven or emht weeks at the outside. Of course on the Dunedin side of the tunnel the line is already in working order, and on the other side it is ballasted, with the exception of about two miles on the Taieri plain, and the rails are laid, except for half-a-mile between Waihola and thu Taieri railway bridge, which is completed. The first station through the tunnel is at Mosgiol ( ( H miles from Dunedin), where there is a passenger’s station, master’s house, goods shed sidings, and watering place for the engines’ These are all nearly finished. There wilf be a small stopping place a little further on where there will be a platform for the convenience of passengers, and the next station is at Greytown miles). Here the different accommodation necessary is in course of erection and nearly completed. Beyond Grevtown there are three stopping places, all with platforms, and then we come to Waihola (25? miles), where sidings are laid down, and * ,buildings for the station finished. At the Gorge toll-bar there will be a stopping place, and at the Gorge—the commencement of tho_ Tokomairiro plain—will be another station, with sidings. At Milton (35:1 miles) the station buildings includin' 7 good passenger accommodation, engine-shed” and goods shed— are practically finished. There W UI also b® a station at the junction (37:1 miles) of the Tuapeka line, and another stopping place between it and Lovell’s Flat. The next station is at the crossing of the Kaitangata road (50 miles), and instead of stopping here, as ori.finally intended, it ia proposed to carry the line to near the Clutha bridge —erecting a temporary platform there in the meantime.
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Evening Star, Issue 3829, 2 June 1875, Page 3
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426THE CLUTHA RAILWAY. Evening Star, Issue 3829, 2 June 1875, Page 3
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