RAILWAY WORKS
SUGGESTED POST-WAR PROGRAMME INCLUDING RIMUTAKA TUNNEL. PUT BEFORE REHABILITATION BOARD. (Bv Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. New railway works that might be undertaken after the war, as well, as a resumption of work, so providing employment for railwaymen now on active service and also for othei exService men, were outlined to the Rehabilitation Board recently by the General Manager of Railways (Mr Casey). According to the estimates given, some of the projects would provide work for up to five years. ; Approximately 6,000 railwaymen are serving in the Armed Forces. Mr Casey said the civil engineering branch of the Department had supplied the following impressive list of works that might be undertaken:— RESUMPTION OF WORK. Auckland-Frankton duplication. Bonny Glen grade easement. Christchurch new station and yards. StillwaterDobson curve improvement’s. Sawyer’s Bay-St Leonard’s duplication. Palmerston North deviation. NEW WORK. North Auckland line duplications and grade easements between Morningside and Helensville. Auckland goods sheds ■ extension. Frankton Junction and Hamilton, improvements to yard, rearrangement and duplication of level crossing elimination. Stratford yard rearrangement. Tawa Flat-Longburn duplication. Oama.ruDunedin grade easements. Curve improvements in various areas.. Various projects include station yard extensions, houses for staff, the relaying of main line tracks in various localities and general maintenance work. All the above works are estimated to require periods varying from six months to five years, and would give employment to 3,560 men. New works which, if approved, would be undertaken by the Public Works Department were the AucklandMorningside tunnel and the Rimutaka tunnel.
Among the principal manufacturing works that must be undertaken as soon as possible in the post-war period are ten main line locomotives for the North Island and 35 for the South Island; also approximately 75 secondary locomotives, 30 modern carriages, and 2,000 wagons. The work on locomotives would employ 220 men for four years and 175 for four years theerafter. It is estimated that 700 men would be required to complete works stopped because of shortage of staff and materials and other proposed works to cope with increasing traffic.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 May 1942, Page 4
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