THE OTAGO CENTRAL RAILWAY.
The first section of the above very important lino of railway is now open for tender. It extends from a few chains to the east of the Wingatui railway station, on the Main South line, r,o Mullocky Gully, a distance of some Bix miles and three-quarters. The first portion of tho line will of course cross the Taieri Plain, and reaching the hills near the property of Donald Reid, Esq., will skirt these till Mullocky Gully is arrived at, in which the present contract will terminate. The woika over the first three miles — that is, on the Plain — are light, consisting almost entirely of formation merely. Along the hill foot, however, there is a series of somewhat heavy cuttings and einbaukinents. There will be two bridges on the route over streams. That over the Silverstream will consist of three spans of 60 feet each, and the one over Mill Creek will be of a single span of 20 feet. What may also be called a bridge occurs at the crossing of the North Taieri main road to Outram. This will be of atone, and will have a 25-feet span to allow traffic to pass below. Between the Plain and Mullccky Gully two tunnels will also be necessary—one at 5| miles from Wingatui, of 10 chains in length ; the other, at a little beyond six miles, of IS chains. No great difficulty is expected to be met with in the formation of these, and it is specified they shall be bricked only a short way from each end. The greatest grades are about 1 in 50, and there are no curves of any extraordinary nature. The contract at present being let is for formation alone. The permanent way will form a separate work. The time for completion is 20 months. With regard to contracts for other sections of the line, nothing is yet definitely settled, but it is to be hnped the Government may push on the Department to get further portions under contract a? soon as possible.
The Taparmi Borough Council has requested the Railway Department to ajlow the through oxpressto Invercargill to s^op at Waipahi,
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Otago Witness, Issue 1422, 22 February 1879, Page 7
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360THE OTAGO CENTRAL RAILWAY. Otago Witness, Issue 1422, 22 February 1879, Page 7
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