RAILWAY WORKS.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18668, 17 April 1926, Page 16

RAILWAY WORKS.

THE MIDDLETON YARDS. Work, on trie new railway", marshalling .ySrds at Middleton is going ahead satisfactorily", '7O men and about 80 teams being employed. The ; approximate amount of. earth,yet. to be shifted is 20,000 cubic yardsV When this wock is finished there will not be a great deal of employment offering for casual labourers as the plate-laying will be done, by the Department's own men. ■•' • ■''-.- : -- ■"• •'■'•* *'•'•' ',<. The specifications for the alterations at the Addingtbu railway workshops may be out at the' end of this month, but the. tenders will probably-not close until the end of the year. There is a fair amount of work to be done, but it is, not of any great urgency. At the present time' several "old buildings are being moved out.of the-. -to provide room for tljose to-.be built as part of the new, scheme. This work is now well in hand., '".""."'' As a result of, the. big'washout in May, 1923, on the Arthurs Pass f do of Kowhai Bush, the temporary line in the north tunnel was re-made on a steep grade. Re-grading work is to commence almost immediately. About 'fifteen' months ] ago there was. a heavy... washqut,, at: the. Eyre River Bridge, near Oxford, and, as a result, the railway line between Oxford and Sheffield' was closed. It has never been opened since. • Repair work to the bridge and the line will commence next Week