Blackball Branch
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The Blackball Branch was a branch line railway of New Zealand's national rail network on the West Coast of the South Island and was operational from the 1900s to 1966. It included the Roa Branch, also
Locomotive on the railway line between Blackball and Roa, circa 1940s-1950s, showing the centre rail. The Press (Newspaper) :Negatives. Ref: 1/1-009750-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington.
Blackball, New Zealand
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Blackball is a small town on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand, approximately 29 km from Greymouth. Elevation is approximately 100 metres.
Blackball Branch
…1900s to 1966. It included the Roa Branch, also known as the Roa Incline. Roa was sometimes known as Paparoa. The Blackball Coal Company's mine near Blackball was on the opposite side of the Grey River to the Stillwater - Westport Line, and in the late 19th century an aerial cableway was used to transport…
Blackball Miners Strike Memorial
The hotel known as "Formerly the Blackball Hilton"
Cover of Bill Pearson's 1963 novel, Coal Flat.