RAILWAY MATTERS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4877, 14 September 1925, Page 2

RAILWAY MATTERS.

STATEMENT BY BOARD. ALTERATIONS AT PAEROA. ; The following interesting information was published by the Railways Board, Wellington, on Friday, and was handed to this paper by Mr W. H. Welch, business agent for the department. on Saturday morning RAILWAY DEVIATION. “The raising of the bridge and shifting of the yards, and occupation of the new station building at Paeroa, rendered necessary through the deviation of the line and yard reconstruction'in connection with the proposed Paeroa-Poekno railway, was opened alst week. The whole of the work, which includes a new doubletrack bridge over the Ohinemuri River (raised six feet above the former bridge level) and the deviation extending over nearly two miles of the through line, is estimated to cost £54,000,' and should be completed in about three months from the present time. “Owing to the flooding of the surrounding country by the periodic overflow of the Ohinemuri River stopbanks on both sides were constructed, as they are in Holland, to protect the country; and this work involved a corresponding raising of the railway bridge which crosses the river at this point. In this connection it is interesting to note as showing the nature of the 'country adjoining the river, that the longest pile used in constructing the bridge had to.be driven eighty feet below the rail level, "A marked improvement in the yard accommodation has been obtained by the alterations, and both station and yard are now lighted by electricity. The new yard is about half a mile further towards Thames than the old yard, which was rearranged in 1906 to meet the conditions created by the opening of the Paeroa-Waihi line?*