TY  - BOOK
AU  - Welch, David,
TI  - Port to plains : over and under the Port hills, the story of the Lyttelton Railway Tunnel
SN  - 9780908629824
AV  - HE3489.A8 W45 2017
U1  - 624.192099383 23
PY  - 2017///.
CY  - Invercargill
PB  - David Welch (self published)
KW  - Lyttelton Railway Tunnel
KW  - History
KW  - Tunnels
KW  - New Zealand
KW  - Christchurch
N1  - Includes bibliographical references
N2  - 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
ER  -