Service by June?

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 18, 5 February 1937, Page 4

Service by June?

- TRAINS T0 WAIROA Good Progress on Mohaka^ Viaduct WORK YET T0 BE DONE Granting no unforeseen delays there ^hoqiq he a daily railway service hetwetfi Napier !aqd Wairoa hy the end of vu*t Jqne. All tjhat npw repitfi tq he cpmpleted on this sectiom pf the Eatt Opasfc railway 'is tha layms pf ~Pm ?r three ffliles oi line hetve9h K^te ipaori and thP Mohaka Viadqct, and the. copipletion of the. gecfind h^f pf the viadqpt itself. This latte? jph ahpnld he finisfted hy the end pf hlay, On the Wairpa-Giaborne section, however, much requires to be done, including the complption of peveral 'tunnels, the higgest a niile long. About 8Q0 men arp working on this portion of the line, which involves so much work that it will probably be two yeais yet before trains ply th^ir way between Wairoa and Gisborne. Work on the viaduct at Mohaka — the second highest in the world and the largest railway trestle in the Southern Hemisphere— 4s proceeding up. to expeotations, and slowly but steadily the giant ateel towers are creeping upwards from the Mohaka river at the bottom qf the gorge. This will provide railway travellers with the aaost thrilling experience of any to be gained on New Zealand railway jpurneys, for the bridge crpsses the Mohaka river at p height of nearly 1000 feet. Workmen are now engaged in laying the remaining two pr three miles of line between Kotemaori and the Mo-. haka Viaduct— a. section which, even before the earthquake, was never ccmpleted. A freight train supplyipg workers on the viadqct is running between Wairoa, and the trestle, The Napier-Putorino freight train leaves Napier every Saturday at 7.3Q a.m., returning at 4.30 p.m. It seldom leaves Napier without a generous load of requirements for farmers whose properties are spread along the route of the nqrthern railway, seldom does it retqrp to Napier, moreover, withqut a generous cargo of sheep or cattle or produce from the country.