Dargaville Rails To Be Linked In Six Weeks

Northern Advocate, 30 January 1940, Page 3

Dargaville Rails To Be Linked In Six Weeks

Within six weeks, if the weather remains fine, the Dargaville branch railway line should junction with the Kaihu Valley line. It is expected that goods consigned to Dargaville will then be brought into the existing station, in lieu of the Tangowahine terminus. Existing facilities will be found sufficient until such times as the new Dargaville station yards in Valley Road are completed. Wet weather has held up construction work on the branch line, and also on the bridge across the Awakino creek at St'anaway’s.

Pile-Driving Delayed.

The high level of the Awakino stream has interfered with pile-driv-ing and the placing in position of the girders, the longest of which is 50 feet.

The earth work construction gangs are working on the cuttings through Marinkovich’s property, at which point the new line will junction with the Kaihu line.

Once the bridge is completed, platelaying of the line between the bridge and the junction of the Kaihu line, a distance of about three miles, will not take long, as the . materials are assembled at Tangowahine and will be brought quickly across the intervening section.