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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 33, 9 February 1937, Page 3

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RAILWAY TERMINALS. PROGRESS ON EAST COAST. SPANNING MOHAKA GORGE. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) WAIROA. this day. Another important stajre in the construction of the Eiust Coast railway was readied last week when a train was run j as fur as the Mohaka viaduct, this beinjr the liivt train to reach the viaduct from the Napier end. It can now lie claimed that the whole of the line from Napier to Waikokopu has been practically completed and the only link now required to make it nos-ible to run a service from Napwr to Waikokopu is that which will be provided by the viaduct. flood progress with the task of spanning the gor»e con tinner, and it is fully anticipated that this job, one of the most difficult engiiieerinjr feats in connection with the railway, will be finished by the end of .Tune. However, no definite indication has yet been «ivoi) an to when the line will be handed over to the Kailways Department, as that will depend a groat deal on when the work is far enough advanced to inaugurate a regular train service between Napier and Wairoa. There are several minor works still to be carried out before this will be possible. There is a possibility that the first passenger train will run from Wairoa on March t>. and effort.-; are being- made to have an excursion train run hetwe&n Wairoa and Kaupunga for the Raupunjia sports.