RAILWAY WORKS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4856, 22 July 1925, Page 2

RAILWAY WORKS.

PAEROA STATION IMPROVEMENTS YARD NEARING COMPLETION. A visit to the new station buildings and railway yards .at Paeroa shows that good progress has been made during the past month. The station building has now received its final coat of paint, and but for a few additions and extras the building is practically ready for occupation. The railway platform is also nearing completion The necessary sets' of rails for immediate use have been laid down, and the ballasting between the sleepers is nearly completed.

The new yards and buildings will not be brought into use, however, until the formation of Taylor’s Avenue and Moore Road is completed. On both these streets the earth formation work is finished, and metalling is being proceeded with. Considerable delay is being occasioned in this direction owing to the difficulty in obtaining a sufficient supply of metal from the Tirohia quarry. The Railway Department with its present gang of men could conveniently handle about 200 yards of metal a day, but the supply coming to hand is only about 75 yards a day. It has been considered inadvisable by the department to use the new yards until the two streets mentioned are ready to receive heavy traffic, and until then the western end of Hill Street will hot be closed.

Every effort will be made to.push on with the construction of the overhead bridge for pedestrian traffic over the Hill Street crossing, but all the material required for this structure lias not yet come to hand. Asked yesterday when the-new station would be occupied, an official stated that it ,w;as difficult to determine definitely, as so much depended on adequate supplies of metal and other necessary material coming to hand.

It is understood that the present railway refreshment rooms and en-gine-shed will be moved bodily to temporary positions at the new station later on, when the work is further advanced.