NORTH AFRICAN RAILWAYS.
New Line to Red Sea.
LONDON, October 23. from Suakin, in the Red ***> to Atbara, on tbe Nile, has been ««-pleted.
* t™s line— also known as the Suakinf*™w railway—is 332 miles iong and gViaage, and extends from the Red if* Port of Suakin northwards through, '""province; then turning in a southerly direction and reaching tbe AtL»i er about twenty miles from its 2^ ith the Nile - From here Jt to the river, and joins the -mw- ;line to Khartoum about a mile r"}. he "Atbara bridge. The steepest cur! 1 • - 9 ' l in 100, and the sharpest al_7t 1S 5de 8'- * the cost is estimated at iv 250 P sr mile - In Jul y> 1904 > |SS> reported that the work was pvofafS satisfaetorilv. and that the orSftMft the large bridges on the railJpi heen placed with Sir W. Arrol C f''f' aSgOW ' involvin S 300 ° t0 4000
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 254, 24 October 1905, Page 5
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