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FORDING SULPHUR CREEK. This stream, which is to the south of Makatote, has a rough and tumble bed of boulders, and is fairly deep at times, so passengers generally get out and cross by the little suspension bridge seen on the left. The country just about here is very broken, and there are several steel viaducts which, if it were not for the vicinity of the great Makatote, would excite much wonder. Two of them are curved. They have a decided cant inward, and the heavy sleepers—all Australian hardwood —are placed so close together, to take the enormous strain, that they almost touch on the inside curve. These are the biggest curved viaducts in the Dominion, and it is said they are also the first.

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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XL, Issue 20, 13 May 1908, Page 33

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FORDING SULPHUR CREEK. This stream, which is to the south of Makatote, has a rough and tumble bed of boulders, and is fairly deep at times, so passengers generally get out and cross by the little suspension bridge seen on the left. The country just about here is very broken, and there are several steel viaducts which, if it were not for the vicinity of the great Makatote, would excite much wonder. Two of them are curved. They have a decided cant inward, and the heavy sleepers—all Australian hardwood—are placed so close together, to take the enormous strain, that they almost touch on the inside curve. These are the biggest curved viaducts in the Dominion, and it is said they are also the first. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XL, Issue 20, 13 May 1908, Page 33

FORDING SULPHUR CREEK. This stream, which is to the south of Makatote, has a rough and tumble bed of boulders, and is fairly deep at times, so passengers generally get out and cross by the little suspension bridge seen on the left. The country just about here is very broken, and there are several steel viaducts which, if it were not for the vicinity of the great Makatote, would excite much wonder. Two of them are curved. They have a decided cant inward, and the heavy sleepers—all Australian hardwood—are placed so close together, to take the enormous strain, that they almost touch on the inside curve. These are the biggest curved viaducts in the Dominion, and it is said they are also the first. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XL, Issue 20, 13 May 1908, Page 33

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