RAILWAY EXTENSION.
NEW ROUTE TO NEWMARKET. A complete alteration is proposed in the railway improvement scheme as worked out by Mr. E. H. Hiley, General Manager for New Zealand " Railways The scheme, as first proposed, allowed for using the present Parnell tunnel line in addition to the new -waterfront line to Westfield; this would have meant a highlevel station just below the present Parnell bridge, making an awkward and dangerous curve into the high-level station, and also a difficult one to work from the public point of view. During the past fortnight the Department surveyors have been laying out a new line which will follow the" waterfront line to Point Resolution, and then turn in up that gully to Newmarket. There will be a tunnel in the new scheme but HBt a difficult one. It will mean that the whole of the trains, Kaipara, Main Trunk and suburban, will start from one level, which must mean economy to the Railway Department, and a tremendous boon to the public
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 131, 3 June 1918, Page 4
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168RAILWAY EXTENSION. Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 131, 3 June 1918, Page 4
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