TARANAKI WANTS THE WESTMERE RAILWAY GRADIENT EASED
(0.C.) New Plymouth, May 26. Now that the Turakina railway deviation is in use facilitating the handling of bigger loads south ot Wanganui, the Taranaki Local Bodies Association, at Eltham today, decided to urge the Government authorities concerned to eliminate the heavy Westmere grade north of Wanganui. Speakers said that if it were economically desirable to build the Turakina deviation, they thought a similar case could be put up for the Improvement of grades between Wanganui and Taranaki. Easing of the grades, they claimed, would mean that heavier loads could be carried between Wanganui and New Plymouth, for loads were governed by the weight a locomotive could haul up the Westmere gradient. ' A recommendation that Taranaki Regional Planning Council should support an improvement of the line was also passed.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 27 May 1948, Page 4
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