MORE FLOODLIGHTING

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20736, 21 February 1939, Page 11

MORE FLOODLIGHTING

BIQ TOWER AT FRANKTON ILLUMINATING THE YARD MARSHALLING AT NIGHT Already higher than the other three towers and as yet only three-quarters of its total height, a new floodlight tower is being erected at the Frankton Junction railway yard. The additional lighting will assist considerably the night shunting operations at the station which is continually becoming I busier. I The steel floodlight tower now in ! the course of construction is situated |at the northern end of the western ! marshalling yard. It will be 120 | feet in height and is designed to carry four floodlights, two with the beam to the north and the other two with the beam to the south where the busier section of the yard lies. At present the tower has been constructed j to a height of about 90 feet after a I week’s work on the structure. It is anticipated that the work will be finished at the end of this week when the installation of the lights will be commenced Busy Centre The other floodlight towers at Frankton, one in the north of the eastern marshalling yard and the other j \ two to the south near the overhead • | bridge, arc 90 feet in height and carry j j four floodlights. * j The increasing importance of Frank- ! ton Junction as a rail centre with the j consequent increase in the amount of shunting completed at the yard every day has made necessary the additional floodlight. The western yard, which the new light illuminates, was extended to the north a few months before Christmas and the additional rail length made available has resulted in the yards being relieved considerably of the congestion which was becoming apparent.