WAIROA-EAUPUNGA LINE
COMMUNICATION RESTORED (United Press Association) WAIROA, 19th June. • Railway communication has been restored between Wairoa and Raupunga, a train leaving Wairoa this week 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 had never seen one, apart from the same engine when it was at Raupunga about a year and a halt ago. The length of line now open contains two tunnels, ■ one the 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 more than 20 miles. The camp at the Mohaka viaduct is now in ..occupation and preparatory work for the commencement of the huge Mohaka River viaduct is in. progress.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 22 June 1936, Page 6
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152WAIROA-EAUPUNGA LINE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 22 June 1936, Page 6
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