RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION
EAST COAST MAIN TRUNK STEADY RATE OF PROGRESS (Per United Press Association) GISBORNE, Jan. 11. Seven hundred men on the GisborneWaikokopu section of the east coast main trunk railway recommenced work to-dav with the prospect of seeing the greater portion of their lob completed before the turn of the year. If expectations are realised the Waikoura tunnel, of 76 chains, will be completed bv May and the coast tunnel, of 43 chains, will be carried close to the noint of completion. By the end of the year it should be possible for the works trains to travel over almost the whole of the Gisborne-Waikokonu section.
The main tunnelling job connecting the Waiau and the Tikiwhata Valleys is expected to reach completion in 1941 and this will bring the line to the point at which it will be ready to be handed over to the Working Railways Department.
The majority of the men now emoloved on the line are engaged in tunnelling or on work connected with tunnelling, the Waikoura coast, and Waiau-Tikiwhata tunnels being the key iobs of the whole construction programme.
Before closing down work for the holidays, the distance between the two faces on the Waikoura tunnel was reduced to not much more than 1200 feet, and good progress has also been shown in both the other major works
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23705, 12 January 1939, Page 7
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