Paparoa Range
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The Paparoa Range is a mountain range in the West Coast region of New Zealand's South Island. It was the first New Zealand land seen by a European – Abel Tasman in 1642. Part of the range has the coun
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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
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…ships were off Punakaiki and if so, it was the Paparoa Range that they saw. Significant coal deposits have been found in the Paparoa Range, with the Blackball Branch/Roa Incline and the Rewanui Branch railways built to provide access to the mines. Although these branch lines are now closed, they were famous for their usage of…
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.