RANGES SPANNED BY NEW RAILWAY

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 27, 23 April 1927, Page 8

RANGES SPANNED BY NEW RAILWAY

PAEROA TO TAHAWAi SUBSIDENCES FURTHER ON The announcement that th Railway Department will over the Waihi-Tahawai section of railway from May 1 marks „ other step in the railroad velopment of the Auckland, crw vince. There is now only an is. miie gap, shortly to be brides between Paeroa and TaneaL over 100 miles. The section just completed formally taken over by the deiiar. meut is 13A miles long, and the cm!.' struction work was undertaken br the Public Works Department ' Adjoining it is an ls-mile sectioni» the hands of the Sir W. Armstione Whitworth Company, of ErManT whose contract time is already n , though the job is not nearly ’ C( J” pleted. SERVICES TO START As far as Tahawai, train services from Paeroa will now extend. For some time the Public Works Department has been running an extern' porised service for the benefit 0 £ casual traffic, but now that the line is officially completed the Railway Department is losing no time in trt iug advantage of the extended iacilities. The completion of the newly, opened section permits the Coroman' del range to be crossed by rail. far as Waihi the track has been open for many years, and travellers will now be able to enjoy rugged scenery which near Tahawai is blended with picturesque seascapes, from Poorer to the railhead. In the section on which Armstrong Whitworth, Ltd., are working great difficulty has been experienced, and mudflats, traversed where the line skirts the hills near the sea, hav» allowed the foundations of the. track to subside, and the contractors, in consequence, are behind their time.