EAST COAST RAILWAY.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 342, 25 January 1937, Page 5

EAST COAST RAILWAY.

Napier To Wairoa May Be In ; Use Soon. I Press Association—Copyright. Napier, To-day. i It is anticipated that a railway seri vice between Napier and Wairoa will be possible at the end of July of this year as a result of progress which has been recorded with the task of rehabilitating and completing East Coast line. | According to present calculations, the final touches to the Mohaka Viaduct will have been applied in roughly six months’ time—earlier than was originally anticipated. That period j will be sufficient, too, for the. com- | pletibn of the clearing and rest or- | ation of the permanent way, a sec- ’ tion of the operations which is mak- | ifig rapid progress. : A weekly train, rfunning on Saturday, is functioning satisfactorily bc- | tween Napier and the railhead at i Putorino. | The engineering feat of bridging j the immense chasm which is the Mo- ! haka Gorge has been brought to an ' advanced stage. Its progress, in fact, J has been such that travellers receive I a surprise on viewing the great struci ture for the first time. It is not many months since the concrete foundations on the sides of the gorge, and the caissons standing out from the middle of the river at the bottom, were the only signs that a great work had once been started ami i abandoned. To-day, the piers and huge spans of steel towering more than 300 feet above river level foreshadaw the completion of a gigantic undertaking.