STRATFORD LINE.
TCUOSED FOR MONTH.
FORMIDABLE OBSTACLES.
Damage on the Stratford-Main Trunk line extends intermittently over from 40 to 50 miles, and it is expected thai it will be a month before traffic is restored. In the meantime arrangements, are being made to work all Taranaki traffic through Mart on. .:■. Obstacles,which confront the Railway Department m its task of reopening the Whangainomoha-Okahukura section include cuttings filled with mud, tunnel portals choked with jammed logs and deep in waiter, track swinging for 60ft across gaps above the now normal Tangarakau River, sleepers and metals carried bodily by slips on adjacent roads, and blockages 100 yards long and 12ft deep. . ;i ' The line through the Tangarakau Gorge is blocked'by slips, and it will be necessary' to build a -bridge which will take about three or. four weeks to construct; over a 100 ft long wash-out.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 50, 28 February 1940, Page 8
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143STRATFORD LINE. Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 50, 28 February 1940, Page 8
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