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PAGE 4 Wednesday <strong>February</strong> <strong>20</strong> <strong>20</strong>19<br />
BAY HARBOUR<br />
Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />
News<br />
Design soon<br />
for tram shelter<br />
• By Louis Day<br />
PROGRESS IS being made with<br />
the Moncks <strong>Bay</strong> tram shelter.<br />
A design for repair will be completed<br />
for the tram shelter by mid<br />
next month.<br />
The city council has been working<br />
on the design for repair for the<br />
last three weeks.<br />
The 85-year-old building on<br />
Main Rd has been closed since<br />
Christmas Eve after an assessment<br />
of the shelter indicated the condition<br />
of the roof had compromised<br />
the structural integrity of the shelter,<br />
leaving it vulnerable to quakes.<br />
City council transport and operations<br />
manager Steffan Thomas<br />
said an exact date for when repairs<br />
would start was currently unclear.<br />
“Once the design has been accepted<br />
a scope of works will be<br />
outlined to give estimated timelines<br />
and costs. Timelines will be<br />
dependent on funding availability,”<br />
he said.<br />
Redcliffs Residents’ Association<br />
secretary Pat McIntosh said<br />
she was glad to see the project<br />
progressing but was also<br />
disappointed the shelter had been<br />
left to deteriorate to this state.<br />
“It looks as though it has been a<br />
very long time since any roofing<br />
maintenance was done on it to<br />
the point it had to be closed,” she<br />
said.<br />
Locomotive arrives in Little River<br />
• By Louis Day<br />
SEVEN YEARS ago Andrew<br />
Wilson had a dream of bringing<br />
a locomotive to Little River,<br />
last week that dream became a<br />
reality.<br />
On Thursday, the Little River<br />
Railway Station Trust welcomed<br />
a 62-year-old locomotive into the<br />
station.<br />
Director of operations and<br />
trustee Andrew Wilson dreamt<br />
up the idea of bringing a locomotive<br />
to Little River in <strong>20</strong>08<br />
as part of the trust’s <strong>20</strong>21 vision<br />
plan.<br />
It was also Mr Wilson who<br />
came across the locomotive on<br />
Trade Me and drove to Dunedin<br />
to assess it.<br />
“I have driven further for<br />
trains, I have gone down to Bluff<br />
over a weekend,” he said.<br />
Mr Wilson said he has had a<br />
passion for trains ever since his<br />
grandmother took him for walks<br />
through the train yard next to<br />
their holiday home in Kaikoura.<br />
“On my grandmother’s death<br />
bed she said I must ask for forgiveness<br />
for introducing you to<br />
trains and I said why? You have<br />
introduced me to a hobby that<br />
will last me a lifetime and she<br />
said not to you but to everyone<br />
else for having to put up with<br />
this hobby of yours.”<br />
EXCITED: Little River Railway Station trustee Andrew Wilson with the locomotive.<br />
PHOTO: MARTIN HUNTER<br />
Mr Wilson who still has<br />
photos of himself as a child with<br />
locomotives hoped children<br />
today could create the same<br />
memories with the station’s newest<br />
addition.<br />
“The idea is to create that<br />
scene for people to make those<br />
memories and that locomotive<br />
is there to help people do that<br />
so they can look back on those<br />
memories for a lifetime.”<br />
The $8500 locomotive is now<br />
on the tracks connected to a<br />
carriage ready for people to have<br />
their photos taken next to it.<br />
The locomotive was introduced<br />
into service in June 1957<br />
and decommissioned in April<br />
1985.<br />
It spent its entire working role<br />
in the South Island.<br />
Mr Wilson said once the trust<br />
had restored the interior of the<br />
locomotive they would consider<br />
opening it up on special occasions<br />
and maybe even let people<br />
pull the whistle.<br />
The trust does not have a<br />
licence to run the locomotive<br />
along the tracks, however, Mr<br />
Wilson said they could possibly<br />
jack it above the rails which<br />
would allow the wheels to go<br />
round without it actually going<br />
anywhere.<br />
Late night Lyttelton Tunnel closures<br />
From Sunday 24 <strong>February</strong>, you’ll need to plan your<br />
travel around late night tunnel closures.<br />
These are essential to both install and test a new fire protection<br />
system inside the tunnel.<br />
Work on this $28.7 million project is expected to be completed<br />
by April/May <strong>20</strong>19.<br />
Traffic lane closures are timed for late night/early morning<br />
on the lightest tunnel traffic days of the week, that is Sunday,<br />
Monday and Tuesday.<br />
In conjunction with the late night tunnel closures, we are<br />
carrying out maintenance on SH74 (Tunnel Road) to ensure<br />
fewer nights of disruption for motorists and residents. Work<br />
includes replacing some guardrails and road resurfacing work<br />
between Port Hills and Horotane Valley overpasses as well.<br />
Lyttelton-bound traffic into the tunnel for the 10-minute openings<br />
will be unaffected. Traffic leaving the tunnel towards Christchurch<br />
will have to exit onto SH76 Port Hills Road.<br />
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW<br />
• Real-time traffic information for the Lyttelton Tunnel area is<br />
available at www.tfc.govt.nz<br />
• A schedule of tunnel traffic lane closures can be found at<br />
www.nzta.govt.nz/assets/projects/lyttelton-tunnel/<br />
lyttelton-tunnel-lane-closures.pdf<br />
TUNNEL CLOSED<br />
from 11pm to 4am<br />
Sunday 24 <strong>February</strong><br />
Monday 25 <strong>February</strong><br />
Tuesday 26 <strong>February</strong><br />
The tunnel will open to<br />
traffic for 10 minutes on the<br />
hour on these nights.<br />
Emergency access will be<br />
maintained through the<br />
tunnel at all times.<br />
• Check the Transport Agency’s official Twitter @nztacwc and<br />
Facebook facebook.com/nztasouthisland pages.<br />
• For traffic and travel information, call 0800 4 HIGHWAYS<br />
(0800 44 44 49) to speak to one of our team.