THE OPUNAKE RAILWAY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 312, 11 June 1915, Page 6

THE OPUNAKE RAILWAY.

WORK PROCEEDING SATISFACTORILY. Work on this branch line is proceeding very satisfactorily, and the Te Kbti end just now presents quite a busy appearance. The Railway Department has a gang of men employed just outside the Te Roti yards, on the northern side, widening the rutting and building up a filling a few chains further north so as to permit of the branch line being laid parallel with the present main line as it approaches the Te Roti station. It is intended to lower the whole level of the Te Roti station yard a foot or •two and to reconstruct the station on the island principle, viz., lines running either side of it. The trains arriving on the Opunakc branch line will, therefore, pull in to and depart from the opposite .side of the platform to the mainline trains. The concrete piers for the bridge crossing the Waingongoro stream will, in all probability, be started in a week or two, and simultaneously the "oncrcte work for the Mangatoki and Kapuni bridges. The steam navvy is being erected at a big cutting between the Waingongoro and the Mangatoki rivers, and this will probably be working in about a fortnight's time. Heavy waggons to carry tile spoil from the steam navvy are now being unloaded at the Te Roti station. Immediately the line crosses the Waingonogoro stream coming towards Te Roti, another 'branch line will be laid, and swinging northward, will connect with the. main line about half a mile north of Te Roti. The object of this is to enable any complete trains to or from the north to be switched directly from or to the Opunakc line without having to travel the extra distance from this point to the To Roti station. When such occasion arise an official will be. despatched from the Te Roti station to attend to the points.—Star.