Rakaia
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Rakaia is a town sited on the southern banks of the Rakaia River on the Canterbury Plains in New Zealand's South Island, approximately 57 km south of Christchurch on State Highway 1 and the Main South
The Big Salmon of Rakaia
War Memorial Rakaia
Rakaia Post Office Building built 1910
Bank of New Zealand Building, Rakaia
Methven Branch
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The Methven Branch was a branch line railway that was part of New Zealand's national rail network in Canterbury. It opened in 1880 and operated until 1976.
Rakaia
…shingle beds of the braided river at this point. Both bridges are approximately 1,750 metres (5,740 ft) in length. Rakaia was also the junction of the Methven Branch, a branch line railway to Methven that operated from 1880 until its closure in 1976. An accident at the railway station in 1899 killed four people…
Hatfield ford bridge abutments
Lyndhurst Goods shed
Lauriston goods shed