A LOOP RAILWAY

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 50, 21 May 1927, Page 10

A LOOP RAILWAY

Sir, — If a map of the Waitemata Harbour is studied, one is struck by the possibility of connecting the two shores at Hobsonville. This is no new thing, for the airdrome and the Power Board have been forced by the configuration to make use of the narrow channel at Hobsonville. Just above the Hobsonville wharf the land slopes gently to the water on both sides of the channel. The channel here has deep water only in the centre. No difficulty can be experienced in bridging this narrow waterway. If a railway were constructed from Devonport to Hobsonville no engineering difficulties would present themselves. If then it were continued by means of a viaduct across the southern

arm of the harbour to connect* the proposed waterfront railway. line of untold value to the c ? utM p exist. In considering the arm of the harbour great P°-’ s -, ver t are before us. We have anal . lse d f° r shallow water which could be u , we many purposes. It is hardfe PJ £ to imagine w-hat could be m Agoßß* Let us think of gardens and model districts and wnar oJ warehouses —why the Tv f or tW would pay over and over again railway! , HobNow, let us look at the hne nc tion sonville. Here w ® hav ® n e s aV*!; with Kumeu only five mi This means that 13 mile , the from Auckland to Helensviue. “ m North Shore gets a direct Un north. * a stad° u The line from Devonport miles at, say, Ponsonby, would » fro® long. Electric carriages go j, Devonport to Auckland vt cs *jminutes, giving a conserv e trt mate. This is about the ferry takes. w jth asj This w'ould not mterfer j e vrfibridge proposal. .* >ec * u! !? me but become a necessity in tun . j n titf undoubtedly be a great <-• god development of the North ~ no the Upper Harbour.