EASY RAIL BUILDING
South Island Main Trunk
N.Z. RECORD POSSIBLE
By Telegraph—Press Association.
Blenheim, January 26. So easy is construction work on the northern end of the South Island Main Trunk railway that there is every reason to believe that a New Zealand record for railway building Will be established there. . • . • Formation work is now in varying stages of completion over a stretch of more than 30 miles from the end of the completed line at Wharanui to the Clarence River. It will be finished ready for the running of such commercial trains as are necessary by September at the present rate of progress, though there is some fairly heavy work a,1 ’L7ie South Island Main Trunk line should be open for traffic as a completed unit of the New Zealand railways system within three years.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 104, 27 January 1931, Page 8
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136EASY RAIL BUILDING Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 104, 27 January 1931, Page 8
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