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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.

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