The New Viaduct at Makotuku.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXI, Issue 3784, 4 August 1898, Page 2

The New Viaduct at Makotuku.

The railway bridge at Makotuku \a now finished, and is a substantial piece of work. The following details will prove interesting The total length of the girders is 240 ft. consisting of three lattice girders between piers 180 ft. and two lattice girders over piers 60ft ; the girders are of malleable iron and lied together at the ends by vertioal cross bracing and horozontal top and bottom struts of angle irons, <&o; the girders are resting on cast iron bed plates which are boltod to pier caps with 51b sheet lead packing between ; 25,000 rivets were □Bed ; all the material is of British mannfactnre and of the best qaality, tbe iron being manufaetared in New Zealand ; all

steel used is “ Siemens Mania" strongth of the straotaro is to bet by two W Class engines and fbu/J train. The test is 22 tons to the J: inch, rivets being teeted 24 tom? square inch and capable of bending/ 1 quite flit when cold. Due provision is made for exp lßi Tbe foreman of the work, Mr Q. g/* deserves credit for the manner j| J tbe work has been carried out; f or ® ness of finish this viadact cannot 1 be improved upon. The bands all told numbered 13, and although wet days were experienced, the work" completed well within the contriou tbe 7th of August. Tbe new it*!! stands Bft higher than the old bridge