LESS HEIGHT, WORSE GRADE.
The now completed Midland Railway of the South Island ■reaches its highest point at the eastern end of the Otira tunnel at SIfSS feet. The North Island Main Trunk Railway goes over S6OO feet at two _ places — Waiouru and Waimarino. But the Midland Railway, on the short stetp West Coast side, has to do its climbing in such conditions as to require a 1 in SS grade; and that is where the ■mnch comes in economically handling heavy freight such as coal.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 27, 1 August 1923, Page 9
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86LESS HEIGHT, WORSE GRADE. Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 27, 1 August 1923, Page 9
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