RAILWAY DREAM
FINAL STAGE OF ITS DEFEAT. (Per Press Association — rep yright.) -CHRISTCHURCH, Dec. . 29.' A railway dream'of the ’seventies—for an island main trunk line running along the foothills from Oxford, linking with branch lines at Sheffield, Coalgate, Hororata, Methven, and - Geraldine on the way, arid finally joining the present main . line* at Tetnuka—-will reach its filial stage of defeat in January. - , ~.q' The Railway Department, following out its recent decision to lift the rails on the Oxford-Sheffield line (the first and only section of .tl)e line to be built), is calling applications for the purchase of the sleepers on the line, and soon only the formation of the track and, the..bridge zeroes, fca, show, „ „ what enthusiasts for the development of Canterbury planned 65 years ago.
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 December 1932, Page 5
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126RAILWAY DREAM Hokitika Guardian, 30 December 1932, Page 5
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