| Collection |
Marlborough Province - down the decades from early days |
| Photographer |
Brayshaw, Norman Henry |
| Description |
A black and white photograph showing two men using a two-man cross-cut saw on a large tree trunk and a third man standing by with an axe. They are at Goose Bay on the East Coast in the 1930s clearing a track for the South Island Main Trunk railway line [S.I.M.T.]. Their camp is in the background complete with hens.
Information as typed by Norm Brayshaw: "Rail and Road. Clearing a track for the [railway] line through the bush at Goose Bay on the East Coast. This was part of the work started in 1936 to fill the gap of 80 miles which remained to be completed when the work was stopped in 1930."
Copied by Norm Brayshaw in 1962 from Weekly news, 2 December 1936, supplied by J. Charters, Picton. Includes a negative.
A scan of this photograph will be used in the Changing European History Gallery 3 display in commemoration of the Marlborough Provincial 150th anniversary on 1 November 2009.
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Caption December 2009:
Clearing a track for the railway line through the bush at Goose Bay south of Kaikoura.
This was part of the work re-started in 1936, by the new Labour Government, to close the gap of 128 km still remaining between the line from Picton and the line from Christchurch. The work had been stopped in 1930, during the Great Depression.
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| Year Range from |
1936 |
| Object ID |
2009.067.0066 |
| Object Name |
Photograph |
| People |
Charters, J. |
| Place |
East Coast/Goose Bay |
| Title |
Clearing a track for the railway line at Goose Bay |
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