SOUTH MAIN TRUNK
Rails May Be Joined By Christmas
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, February 8. No date has yet been fiixed for tlie opening of the railway from the north to Kaikoura. but it is expected that the ceremony-will take place toward the end of March. The tracks were complete to Kaikoura before Christmas,'but the opening of the line was held up pending completion of the Kaikoura railway station. The construction of this is now well advanced and should be finished about the middle of March. Work in the Kaikoura yards io also proceeding apace and only two sidings remain to be put in. Approximately six miles of track still have to have the final lift, ■- Good progress Is being made with, the construction of the line from the Uaro end also, and provided manpower is available, it is hoped to have the two sections linked up before Christmas. The tracks have now been pushed on well beyond Oaro, present terminal of the southern section.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 114, 9 February 1944, Page 6
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