The Mersey Tunnel.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 147, 27 May 1885, Page 2

The Mersey Tunnel.

Liverpool has n^mtiy heen en fete on tlie occasion ol' an oiiicial -survey ami transit of the Mor-ey tunnel, and •i most colossal undertaking, winch ha* sea reel van <«qual m tin? annals of ongi'it-Ki-uig enterpviso, has l>eea practically accomplished. All the difficulties of the task — and their name is legion — have been successfully overcome; -and from the engineer's point of view, :the tunnel is completed from one bank to the other, and there remains only to be done the minor and incidental work of ballasting tholine. This accomplished, the means of communication Wy railway between Liverpool and 'tiirkenhead uuder tlie Mersey will h« completed,' and the mis.s»«i^ .ink will be supplied m the railway service of this important disrri-. I'hH Mayor of Liverpool ami tli M .y.u- <>f Bit kenhead, approaching ; ;ei -ntlly from the opposite si- IfH ol'tb' rivur, met midvvay underground iv the tunnel, to see and to tea'ify to the achievement of this gigantic work and to shake hands together. A platform w:i» erected for their accommodation, a cord being- drawn »cros3 the platform, l>isecting it, the Mayor of Liverpool standing on the one side and the Mayor of Birkenhead on the other. Not even the St Gothard Tunnel, which is the world's Wonder, equals itas a triumph of engineering skill.