RAILWAY WORKS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4800, 21 January 1925, Page 2

RAILWAY WORKS.

PROGRESS AT PAEROA SECTION. PRELIMINARY WORK FINISHED. A visit of inspection of she various works which are being undertaken by the Railway Department at Paeroa was made by Mr A. W. Smith, assistant district engineer of the department yesterday. In an- interview with Mr smith it was learned that .the department intended to expedite the various local undertakings as far as possible. The existing gangs were to be considerably strengthened, and supplies of materials for the plate-inying and carpentering gangs were new coming to hand regularly, and every effort was to be made to avoid unnecessary delays A start will be made almost immediately on the erection of the station buildings, the concrete kerbing for the platform of which has been completed. The goods sheds will be built simultaneously with the station, on the completion of which the engine-shed and w’orkshop will be erected.

The engineer referred to the considerable amount of preliminary’ work that has had to be done before anything of a permanent nature could be undertaken. He expressed himself as being well satisfied with the progress being made, and said that his department was just as anxious to have the work speedily completed as was the'general public. It was hoped that the main line through the new station would be completed in the course of a few days, when the present line would be taken up and ielaid some distance away.

A start hats been made with the excavation work in the main outfall drain. The present course of the drain is being straightened, and when the excavations are completed and the drain pumped dry a large concrete culvert will be constructed, with the provision of a span for the railway lines. Taylor’s A veliue up level with the culvert and continued over the top of it, the wooden traffic bridge at present spanning the drain being done away with. A large quantity of spoil from uppei Hill Street has been carted on to Taylor’s Avenue for formation purposes, but much more is still required. fe understood that the work on this road is to be vigorously pursued from no’.” onwards, and a scheme of further formation and carriage of spoil is receiving consideration.

There is to be little change on the Puke Road line crossing, hut a start is to be made very shortly with excavation work in connection with a subway under the William Street mossing.

The approaches leading to the site of the new railway bridge are daily growing higher, and the new line formation work has been straightened, and in due course the present grade will be considerably lessened and extended to a point in the vicinity of the present railway station. Considerable formation work has yet to be done in Moore Street, and this will be commenced very shortly.