NAPIER-WAIROA LINE
OPENING NEXT MONTH WORK ON RAILWAY YARDS [by TELEGRAPH OWN CORRESPONDENT] GISBORXE, Monday "Within a month, according to information received in Wairoa and Gisborne, the Railway Department will inaugurate regular passenger and freight services on the Napier-Wairoa section of the East Coast Main Trunk line. An announcement of tho actual date of commencement is awaited with keen interest, as much in the Gisborne district as in Wairoa, for the opportunity of travelling by rail between Wairoa and Napier will be much appreciated by many people for whom road travel « full of disadvantages, in spite of the excellence of the service provided. Works gangs are putting the final touches to the railway yards, sidings, station buildings, and other features of the section which will contribute to smooth working of the passenger services. At Wairoa .there has been some activity in the station yards, where the passenger platform has been reformed in preparation for sealing with bitumen. Other work, some of it similar in character, has been proceeding at various points along the line, and final attention has been given to the ballasting of tho rails.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23353, 23 May 1939, Page 10
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