RIMUTAKA DEVIATION.
CROSS CREEK TO MUNGAROA. We understand that the survey of the new railway route across the Riinutaka range, from Cross Creek to Mungaroa, which was mentioned in our columns some time back, has been completed. It will entail a tunnel 5 miles 18 chains long. Mungaroa is 200 feet above the level of the Creek, and the grade would work out at about six inches in every sixty feet. The distance from where the tunnel would commence and end, was timed the other day over the present route, and took one hour fifteen minutes. The time through the tunnel would take not more than twelve minutes on the up 'grade. The country, it is understood, is suitable for tunnelling. The cost of construction of this deviation is estimated at £1,000,060.
On the Wainui-o-mata route two tunnels; one about 2| miles long would have to be constructed, and the cost of this deviation, including the laying of a new line along the lake, would probably exceed the Mungaroa-Cross Creek route.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 49, Issue 14852, 5 February 1923, Page 4
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171RIMUTAKA DEVIATION. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 49, Issue 14852, 5 February 1923, Page 4
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