RAILWAY TO DARGAVILLE

Northern Advocate, 11 June 1926, Page 5

RAILWAY TO DARGAVILLE

GOOD PROGRESS RECORDED From the site of the Kirikopuni station to the railway bridge across We Northern Wairoa River is a distance of two miles, and on this section the Public Works Department has completed some very heavy construction, one cutting exceeding 80,000 yards, the spoil being used to form the -western approach to the Northern Wairoa river bridge. The bulk of the work in the two milo section from the station to the river has been completed but the cuttings require trimming up, and the track grading. Very shortly the platelayers will be laying sleepers, commencing from the bridge end.

On the southern side of the Northern Wairoa /River the railway bridge is rapidly assuming shape. A start was made on Wednesday morning with the sinking of the second concrete cylinder. Rows of slim kahikatea piles have been driven in the river bed, leaving but a narrow fairway, carrying the false work for the second set of cylinders which will be sunk in the centre of the stream.

This week the steel rim of the first of the second set of cylinders will he placed in position preparatory to the erection ofthe steel rods, which will reinforce the cylinder. The nien are working inside the completed cylinder, as it is being driven down to a solid foundation, with four shifts, the work proceeding continuously. Between Pukehuia and Waiotira. a distance of eleven miles, a considerable amount of consolidation work has I been done lately. The line is being ballasted with metal from the Department’s Tauraroa quarry, bridges are receiving permanent decking, slips being trimmed up, and the whole section gives an impression that it will not be very long before the line will pass from the control of the Public Works and be taken over by the Railway Department.