TO PORT CHALMERS AND BACK BY RAILWAY.

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 247, 24 October 1872, Page 5

TO PORT CHALMERS AND BACK BY RAILWAY.

The rails being now laid through from the Railway Jetty at Port Chalmers to Hanover street, Dunedin, we last week performed our first journey to the Port and back on one of Fairlie's engines, and much we enjoyed it. As the line is not yet ballasted it is a question of care rather than speed. The engine is employed in transporting rails, sleepers, and othennaterial from the Pott to that portion of the line still unfinished. Yesterday a train of empty trucks was dr .wn to the Port, and on the return journey a similar number of loaded waggons was pushed along rapidly and steadily from the Port to Hanover street. The smoothness with which the engine traversed the curves, and the absence' of that oscillation which all who have'travelled on engines know to be usual, tend to prove not only that the line is well and substantially laid, but that the qualities of the Fai^je. engines are not overrated. The railway pier is now 800- feet long, and is rapidly approaching completion, at least so- far as present arrangements are concerned. The . .ballasting of the line has yet to be done, to that it will be some weeks before it is open for 1 traffic. '