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Port to plains : over and under the Port hills, the story of the Lyttelton Railway Tunnel / David Welch.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Invercargill ; David Welch (self published) ; 2017. Description: 204 pages; illustrations (some colour) ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9780908629824
  • 0908629826
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 624.192099383 23
LOC classification:
  • HE3489.A8 W45 2017
Scope and content: Port to Plains celebrates the 150th anniversary of the Lyttelton Railway Tunnel by exploring the politics, the technology and the human stories behind the construction of the Lyttelton Railway Tunnel - the largest single engineering project of colonial New Zealand. The tunnel, from the vote to build to final completion, took 16 years; inspired Vogel's great railway construction programme and helped shape the way New Zealanders see themselves and their country.Port to Plains offers a richly illustrated, time-tunnel journey into a world of people, not so different from ourselves, tackling huge problems, with high hopes and hand tools, gunpowder and collective determination.
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Notes Date due Barcode
Non-Fiction - New Zealand Non-Fiction - New Zealand Waimate Event Centre - Long term storage Non Fiction 624.192099383 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not For Loan Not for loan A00749962
Non-Fiction - New Zealand Non-Fiction - New Zealand Waimate Non-Fiction Non Fiction 624.192099383 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not For Loan Not for loan A00762208

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Port to Plains celebrates the 150th anniversary of the Lyttelton Railway Tunnel by exploring the politics, the technology and the human stories behind the construction of the Lyttelton Railway Tunnel - the largest single engineering project of colonial New Zealand. The tunnel, from the vote to build to final completion, took 16 years; inspired Vogel's great railway construction programme and helped shape the way New Zealanders see themselves and their country.Port to Plains offers a richly illustrated, time-tunnel journey into a world of people, not so different from ourselves, tackling huge problems, with high hopes and hand tools, gunpowder and collective determination.

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