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Full Name: Your Auckland Railway News

Issue Number: 5

Issue Date: November 1953

Volume and Number: 1/5

Pages: 4

Page Range: 1-4

Cover Image: n.a.

CONTENTS

Planned Trips

Christmas Train services

Auckland Provincial News

• The first 8m 52ch of the Murupara Branch (Hawkens Junction to Kawerau) were opened for traffic on 26/10/1953, and being worked by Ab_class_engines
• 24 Railway Houses being built at Kawerau.
• Loco_Tr61 ex Putaruru is to be relocated to Kawerau in the interim and coupled De_class_loco's are expected before end of 1953
• Tauranga Yard had had lots of material for the Mt Maunganui Branch stockpiled with track laying well under way.
• It is understood that Murupara will become the mainline terminus and Taneatua a Branch Line.
• The 2 mile deviation at Tirau to Putaruru is still awaiting rails
• The extensive deviation south of Whangarei is progressing . rails are not yet on site and one large cutting still needs to be excavated.
• The future Down Main was brought into use as the Main Line to allow upgrade of the older track with 85lb rail.
• Auckland's two new suburban stations are reporting good public support.

Mile-post intervals between Tuakau and Mercer