Saw Train for First Time
KIDDIES EXCITED ON EAST COAST RAILWAY Per Press Association. WAIROA, Last Night. Railway communication has been restored between Wairoa and Raupunga. A train is leaving Wairoa th.s wees with timber for the towers to be used in the construction of the Mohaka viaduct. The event caused considerable excitement among the children. One or two had never seen a train before and several hud never seen one except the same engine when it was at Raupunga about a year aud a-half ago.
The length of line now open contains two tunnels, one at Waihua and the other the long Mohaka tunnel, and several bridges, the Wairoa river bridge, the Waihua bridge and the big Maungatauranga viaduct. The length of line open south of Wairoa is over 20 miles. The camp at the Mohaka viaduct is now in occupation and the preparatory work for tho commencement of the huge Mohaka river viaduct is in progress.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 144, 20 June 1936, Page 4
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