RAILWAY DEVIATION

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23200, 21 November 1938, Page 13

RAILWAY DEVIATION

MANAWATU AREA PROJECT LEVEL CROSSING ELIMINATION [from our own correspondent] PALMERSTON NORTH, Saturday Within the next ]2 months Palmerston North, is to be the scene of considerable public works activity. Chief among this will be the projected work oil the Milson railway deviation, which is to hlter the course of the railway so that it will no longer run through the city as at present. A great deal of preliminary work has already been done. The Public Works Department is at present waiting for machinery which is on the way out from Great Britain. One of the greatest tasks involved will be the building of overhead bridges where the rails cross main and secondary roads, and two of the most important of these will be constructed' at Longburn and at the llangitikei line. For the former, four sets of rails will liavo to be spanned. Another such structure will have to be erected at Asbhurst. The sum of £IOO,OOO lias been reserved for overhead bridges, and the Longburn structure is estimated to cost about £15,000. The whole work, together with the now yard and city railway station, is expected to be completed by the end of next year.