NEW RAILWAY BRIDGE
SPANNING THE RAKAIA. LONGEST STRUCTURE OF KIND IN NEW ZEALAND. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Without any ceremony the new railway bridge over the Rakaia River was opened to traffic for the first time today. The bridge is the longest railway structure in New Zealand, being 5,720 feet long. The change over from the sixty-year-old wooden structure was made between the passage of the Christ-church-Invercargill express at 9.56 a.m. and a mixed train from Ashburton. which passed over the new bridge at 12.30 p.m. Once the customary precautions are observed in regard to the passage of trains over the newly constructed lines, there will be no speed restriction over the new bridge and trains will be able to travel at the normal speed of 50 miles an hour, compared with the maximum speed of 20 miles an hour allowed on the old bridge. The new bridge, which originally was estimated to cost L 85.000. has been built a short distance upstream from the existing wooden structure.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 December 1939, Page 8
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170NEW RAILWAY BRIDGE Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 December 1939, Page 8
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