The Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1907. N.I.M.T. RAILWAY.
By the North Island Main Trunk Railway, the total distance between Wellington and Auckland will be 426 miles. Of this distance 336 miles is now open for traffic, leaving a gap still to open of qo miles. The section from Taihape to Mataroa, 5% miles, is now open for traffic, and a further length of 18 miles will probably be ready for opening within a few months. These two lengths, together with a further distance of about 25 miles at the north end between Taumarunui and Raurimu on which goods traffic is also being carried, and the further section between Waiouru and Rangitana (10 miles) on which the rails are already laid, reduces the gap (on which considerable construction work still remains to be done) to about 32 miles. The whole of the works along this distance are manned so as to ensure their completion by the end of next year, and a considerable part of the construction is so far advanced that it is anticipated that by January next the distance between the railheads will be reduced to only 12 miles.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3768, 8 June 1907, Page 2
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191The Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1907. N.I.M.T. RAILWAY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3768, 8 June 1907, Page 2
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