BIG EVENT IN AUCKLAND’S RAILWAY HISTORY.—The first official train to use the Westfield deviation left Auckland yesterday. Top: The test train, with Railway and Public Works Department officials on board, rounding the bend at Judge’s Bay. Lower: The chief signals engineer, Mr. R. G. Myerscough, testing signals at the temporary tablet station at Campbell’s Point. The first goods trains over the new line left for Wellington at 11.30 p.m.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 757, 2 September 1929, Page 16
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69BIG EVENT IN AUCKLAND’S RAILWAY HISTORY.—The first official train to use the Westfield deviation left Auckland yesterday. Top: The test train, with Railway and Public Works Department officials on board, rounding the bend at Judge’s Bay. Lower: The chief signals engineer, Mr. R. G. Myerscough, testing signals at the temporary tablet station at Campbell’s Point. The first goods trains over the new line left for Wellington at 11.30 p.m. Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 757, 2 September 1929, Page 16
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