TUNNEL ROAD
EFFECT ON CARGO HANDLING VIEWS OF RAILWAY OFFICER The Railway Department’s views on the proposed tunnel road were explained at a conference called yesterday by the Lyttelton Harbour Board to discuss methods of achieving a quicker turn-round of ships at Lyttelton. The chairman', Mr W. S. Mac Gibbon, asked representatives of the Railway Department if some of the cargo could not be handled by road transport, and if it would not assist the department if there was a tunnel road through the hills. Although such a scheme would not assist the present campaign, the views of the department would be of interest for the future.
Replying, Mr D. S. Broughton, stationmaster at Lyttelton, said that it was a difficult proposition to work a dual wharf. “You cannot dove-tail motor and rail traffic in working a ship,” he said., “The scheme was tried at two ports in Australia, and it was found to be a complete farce. If it is considered that a tunnel road- should feed the wharves, we know it will be some years before there could be suitable sheds and wharves at Lyttelton. The only practicable method would be to have wharves entirely for trucks and entirely for railways.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25299, 26 September 1947, Page 8
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