TARANAKI RAILWAYS

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXXIV, Issue 4, 28 October 1924, Page 5

TARANAKI RAILWAYS

STRATFORD-OHURA LINE.

THE YEAR’S WORK.

Wellington, October 27

The Government's proposals for work on tlu> Stratford-Main Trunk railway during the year 1924-25 are revealed in the- Public Works Statement. The amount estimated to I* l spent is 100.00 Q. Last year £115,000 was voted and £*60.283 was estimated to be spent. On the St rat ford-Main Trunk, east end, the permanent line is laid to 14 miles 15 chains. Beyond this point a temporary line suitable for ordinary railway rolling-stock drawn by a light lieomotive is run, partly on the main road to the IC-tnilo peg, where a construction depot, dealing also with a goods and passenger service, connects by a metalled road with Ohura township, three miles away. During the ensuing year it is hoped to complete the permanent line and bridges to Ohura station (19 miles) and all station-yard struo tines along the length. At the west end, the construction of road and railway bridges on. the Raekohua section, for. which the material has already been, obtained, will he undertaken, and also the construction of a service tramway to the Tangarakau River surveys for which are well in hand.