PAEROA STATION SITE.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4745, 1 September 1924, Page 2

PAEROA STATION SITE.

WORK OF PREPARATION. GOOD PROGRESS BEING MADE. Work is progressing rapidly on the new site of the Paeroa railway static®, and! a visit to that locality will surprise one at the transformation that has ‘taken place in so short a time. A temporary loopline has been constructed from near the Puke Road crossing to a point some seventy chairs in a northerly direction, where it is expected the proposed PaeroaPokeno line will join with the main line. This loopline is being used to carry the trucks containing the spoil which is being removed from the station site, the spoil being used for raising up the low levels on the line and for building, the necessary approaches to the station yards. Many hundreds of yards of earth have already been moved and a temporary permanent-way constructed. A gang of forty-five men, under the charge of Ganger W. Munrb, is engaged on loading the soil into a rake of twenty-seven trucks, which when filled, are drawn along by a small ballast engine and .the soil emptied on the side of the line. The gang then comes along and spreads it evenly where required. Once the station yard is reduced to a certain level it is understood that something like 37,000 cubic yards of spawls will be brought from Karangahake and spread until the whole area is brought up to about the level of the present Thames-Waikato line.

It is likely that a start will be made on the formation of Taylor’s Avenue, which will run parallel with the line from the Puke Road crossing to the intersection of Hill Street. To enable this route to be followed it has been necessary to remove Mr G. Dean’s residence bodily back a distance of thirty-one feet, so as to allow bf’a straight line to be taken from Mpore Street through to the Puke Ttoad crossing. Up to the present no alteration has been made, to Moore Street with the exception of cutting flown the large macrocarpa trees.