RAILWAY WORKSHOPS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16200, 25 November 1926, Page 7

RAILWAY WORKSHOPS

4KG SOUTHERN CONTRACT BRITISH MATERIALS to the Herald.) WELLINGTON, this day. Another stage in railway workshops reorganisation was reached yesterday when Cabinet considered eight tenders for the erection of new workshops at Hillside and Addington. The successful tenderer is Mr. J. W. McLellan, of Dunedin, who named Sir William Ariel, Ltd., an English linn, as the supplier of the steelwork. The contract price is about £200,000, and the work is to be completed within 14 months. Tenders jvere also received from W . Williamson, P. Graham and Co., Andersons, Ltd., J. R. W. Jamieson. Christchurch, C. F. Pulley, Hansforu Mills and Co., Wellington, the Love Construction Co., Dunedin. The workshop construction now in hand aggregates over half a million, the contract, for Otahuhn being £150,000, and Petone £200,000. British steelwork is being used in each case. Hillside and Addington construction has to be included in one contract owing to the necessity of the work in two centres being completed in strict accordance with the programme, involving the transfer of shops so that locomotive work can be concentrated at Hillside, and car and wagon erection at Addington. OF CONTRACT. » The contract provides for the construction at Hillside of two locomo-tive-erecting shops, each 440 ft. by 82ft., also a boiler, tube, and machine shop, and paint shop, making another building 440 ft. by 82ft., a foundry 260 by 130 ft, steel wagon shop 20 by 130 ft, and stores, ICO by 82ft, together with various structural alterations to adapt the existing buildings. About 2200 tons of steel work and 112,000 feet of glazing is involved in the Hillside buildings. Considerable alterations to the existing Addington shops are involved, and there is to be an addition to the car, and new and repair wagon shop of 140 by 165 ft. Another new building for new and repair work, and a carpenters’ shop* will be 400 by 132 ft, and a wood mill 200 by 165 ft. The steel structural material used in Addington will be approximately 1300 tons, while glazing will take 32,000 square feet in the windows and 58,000 feet in the roofs.