NEW GOODS SHED

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 908, 27 February 1930, Page 9

NEW GOODS SHED

BUILDING FOR AUCKLAND STATION TENDERS BEING CALLED Tenders are being called for the Inward goods shed for the new .Auckland railway station, which will be completed about the middle of next year. The site for the shed fronts Beach Road and runs parallel with the passenger station site on the north-west-ern side of the latter. The shed will be nearer the road than the station building. It will be similar to the one in Breakwater Road- but with some differences made necessary by the special requirements of inward traffic. In two bays, with a line of steel columns running down the centre the shed proper is 222 ft long by 97ft wide, on either side of the row of columns being a single railway track 2ft Gin below the general floor level. 'This will bring the floors of the railway trucks to practically the same level as that of the ordinary motor-trucks and facilitate loading. Tho long side-walls will each contain 14 doorways 14ft wide and capable of being closed by a steel rollershutter. An electric, overhead, travelling crane will bo provided in each bay and supplemented by smaller mobile cranes running on the wide expanse of concrete floor. Offices will be on one floor only, instead of two, as in the other shed. The building will be of steel, encased in concrete, roofed with corrugated asbestos, of which the back "wall will also be made to allow of future extensions. Tenders will close on April 7, and the contract time is 12 months.