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TAWA FLAT DEVIATION FASTER TRAIN SERVICE (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. One of the double lines on the Tawa Flat railway deviation will be available for use by goods, trains on Monday next, and the first train to use the deviation will leave Wellington on Monday evening. The new line is more than two miles shorter than the existing one via Johnsonville, the maximum heights to which engines will have’to haul trains will be reduced from 610 ft. to 297 ft. The outward grade from Wellington will be reduced from one in. 40 to-one in 110, and the downward grade will bo reduced from one in 56 to one in 100. The shorter distance and easier gradients on the deviation will permit a lug reduction in the running times of trains.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18759, 16 July 1935, Page 5
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