RAILWAY TO STRATFORD
BLOCKAGE OF TUNNEL CLEARING OBSTRUCTIONS Good progress is being maintained with the clearing of the slips from the entrances to the large tunnel between Tuhua and Okahukura, on the Strat-ford-Main Trunk railway line, which was completely blocked by the recent floods. As a result of sustained work carried on by shifts working day and night trains are now able to got to the entrance of the tunnel on the Tuhua side, and thero remain abojit three chains of boulders and silt to be moved on the Okahukura side before the approach :is clear. Until a day or two ago little was known of the damage within the tunnel itself. Mr. G. Knox, ganger, ultimately managed to struggle through the tunnel, but only after he had donned thigh boots. Silt, about two feet deep, covers the rails for forty chains from tho Tuhua end, and about half that distance* from the other end. Insido the tunnel there is about a chain and a-half of logs, some forty feet long. Now that the silt stage —•" pea soup " as it is termed by the gang—h\s been reached there should be a track through within a fortnight.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21469, 18 April 1933, Page 10
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196RAILWAY TO STRATFORD New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21469, 18 April 1933, Page 10
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