NEW RAILWAY BRIDGES
The tender of Downer and.Company, Ltd.. has been1 accepted by the Public. Works Department for the construction of two bridges over the north and south branches of the Rangitata River on the new Rangitata deviation of the Main South Road. The bridges will be of reinforced concrete and the terms of the contract call for their completion within a year (states the "Press"). They are part of a scheme which will effect a saving of about ten miles to traffic on the Christchurch-Dunedin main highway. The deviation will run parallel with the railway line, which here forms the base of a rough triangle having as its other two sides the highway running from Ealing up to the Rangitata bridge and down again to Winchester. The Public Works Department has not announced the contract price for the bridges, but when the scheme was first announced by the Main Highways Board it was stated that the total "cost of bridge construction, road formation, and paving would be between £60,000 and £70,000. ,
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 100, 29 April 1937, Page 6
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172NEW RAILWAY BRIDGES Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 100, 29 April 1937, Page 6
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