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for loading out by train. Hut accommodation for demolition workers, removal equipment such as bulldozers and a mobile crane on crawlers were transported to
Roxburgh by a DJ hauled train on 2 July 1968. A temporary railway Hut compound was established on the Roxburgh station platform for the accommodation of some of the demolition men. Mains power to the Huts, which were individually wired for electricity, was sourced from the electric power lines at Roxburgh station yard. The idea was that these temporary Huts were to be railed down to Millers Flat as the next demolition base just before the mainline rail track had been fully removed from Roxburgh. At the time there was some significant concern reported in the media (and up to Ministerial level) as to why these men had been not able to use the Roxburgh Railway houses, which by now were mostly empty, rather than the expense of establishing the temporary railway workers Hut compound at Roxburgh. However, as explained by Railways at the time, this was impractical as the Huts would be needed anyway as demolition progressed further down the line and so portable accommodation was optimum and in the long run cheaper than furnishing railway houses at Roxburgh for temporary demolition gangs that would be there a few short weeks. By 19 July 1968, the yard track, mainline track past the station platform and
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line through the countryside by zooming in, seeing cuttings, formations and even some railway building structures. For a while, in 1968/1969 there was a suggestion of using the old Big Hill rail tunnel, south of
Beaumont, as a bypass over Big Hill for heavy trucks. The one-lane nature of the tunnel and its restrictive height meant that the high stock transporting trucks of the era would be unable to use it so effectively the idea foundered and the tunnel was never used again. However, as described below there is hope that this tunnel may see use again â at least as part of a proposed rail trail. Other parts of the line though were investigated for use also by the Ministry Of Works, the National Road Board and the Tuapeka County Council. This included potentially a suggestion of re-diverting SH8 up the east side of the Clutha River to Millers Flat, general road easements/realignments at old level crossings and the installation of crawler lanes for heavy truck vehicles. Some of these came to fruition but it was not until 2000 that the old formation up the Beaumont Gorge was turned into a minor public road, the Millennium track, which may form part of a future rail trail on the Roxburgh Branch.
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and back. The cars on the final train carried some 150 children and adults on an excursion organised by the local Teviot
Fruitgrowers Association. The carriages exchanged trains at Lawrence, where the up and down trains normally crossed. The speed of the trains carrying the passengers that day was limited to 15 miles per hour throughout the journey due to poor track conditions. On the return journey into Roxburgh that afternoon a flimsy wooden barricade constructed two miles north of Millers Flat, created by locals protesting the closure of the line, was knocked aside by the advancing train, which barely slowed, to the cheers of its passengers. That last official train steamed into the autumn Roxburgh sunset at 4:50pm to the strains of "Now Is the Hour", the Last Post and a swansong of whistles from the engine bearing the words "Last Puffing Engine" on its nose headboard. The Minister of Railways, the Hon J.B. Gordon, was given three cheers in the Roxburgh station and, although not present, was presented anonymously with a large bag of chaff.
1321:(also known as the Manuka Creek Tunnel) is still in place and is now a Department of Conservation public walkway of the SH8 road at the western approach to the Manuka Gorge. Round Hill tunnel, which passes directly under the SH8 road at Round Hill, is still in place but the approaches to it are heavily overgrown from both sides. The Big Hill tunnel remains also but is more easily visible from the western portal as the eastern portal is partially obscured by a landslip that fell down from below the SH8 road. In a paddock near a road, Waitahuna retains its goods shed, station building, and even an open-roofed men's toilet. Unfortunately, some other station buildings have not been so lucky; Forsyth's passenger shelter collapsed in 1990, while Lawrence's station was burnt to the ground in a 1981 fire brigade practise. In Rigney, an old
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locomotive stalled on a steep grade near the Round Hill tunnel as a result of oak leaves falling on the line and the train's relatively large size for the lines steep grades. Sir Arthur
Tindall, then judge of the Arbitration Court was travelling in the cab of the following train that day from Roxburgh hauled by the A. The train he was on came up behind the stalled DJ and its train, struck detonators placed on the line as a warning of the stalled train ahead, giving every one a fright and then after a short while effectively pushed the DJ and its train over the hill at Round Hill. Both trains then continued on their respective journeys to Milton.
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facts is at the site of the old
Beaumont railway station at Beaumont just before the SH8 bridge crossing the Clutha river. Several of the old railway bridges alongside the eastern bank of the Clutha River were left in place after the line was lifted through the area in October/November 1968 and later in May 1969 after the Railways Department agreed not to remove the bridges with the then Tuapeka County Council. The trail track through the Beaumont gorge diverts briefly from the old rail corridor to pass over a hill at point known as the Lonely Graves where "Somebody's Darling" lies buried. This burial site was highlighted in
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of extra traffic led to an increase in tonnage by 1965. This good news for the line's future did not last, however; by 1967, losses amounted to $ 100,000 a year and 1 April 1968 was announced as the date the line would close. Again, closure was deferred, but when a deal to export logs did not eventuate and fruit traffic shifted to road, the line's demise became inevitable and a final closure date was set for 1 June 1968.
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978:). Decades passed until approval was granted to extend the line beyond its Lawrence terminus, with the next section to Big Hill (location of a tunnel between the Bowlers Flat and Craigellachie stations) opened on 4 October 1910. Upon completion of the 434-metre-long (1,424 ft) Big Hill tunnel, the line was opened to
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Department disposed of much of the Rail corridor land to adjoining landowners through the early 1970s, although current title searches still reveal in nearly all cases the former route of the line to this day. Looking at Google Earth in 2007 one can easily trace the
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In 1959â1960, the line carried 9,900 tonnes of freight out and 24,400 tonnes inwards, as well as 16,000 cattle and 51,800 sheep. Losses were increasing, and on 20 June 1961, it was announced that the line would be closed. Public outcry was severe enough that the line received a reprieve, and promises
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Passengers were not plentiful and the line became freight-only from 4 September 1936. This was an attempt to improve the profitability of the line, but it did not work; from the opening of the final section to
Roxburgh, the branch always made a working loss, with much traffic lost to road transport
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Lifting of the
Roxburgh Branch commenced on Friday 14 June 1968 with work trains hauled by DJ locomotives subsequently running all the way into Roxburgh. This was the first time DJ locomotives had operated to Roxburgh. By late June 1968 there was considerable removed material at Roxburgh yard ready
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was not opened until 16 December 1925. The line was finally completed when the section from
Millers Flat to Roxburgh was opened on 18 April 1928. A modified form of the proposal to use Roxburgh as the route to Central Otago resurfaced, proposing that the branch be extended to meet the Central Otago
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Most of the route between
Beaumont and to a point near Millers Flat (Minzion) has been made into a public rail trail/track and can now be driven, cycled or walked over. This track is known as the Millennium track and a panel explaining the significance of the rail trail route and other interesting
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The last official trains from and to Roxburgh ran on Friday 31 May 1968. The goods train leaving Roxburgh bound for Milton at 10 am that morning included three attached passenger carriages. Earlier in the week the carriages had also been attached to a goods train from Millers Flat to Lawrence
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Stockyards remain at the sites of Mount Stuart, Beaumont, Evans Flat, and Millers Flat stations, with the latter two also still in possession of their platforms. Loading banks can be found in Manuka, Evans Flat, Bowlers Creek, and Craigellachie, and a now preserved goods shed is in Teviot (With a
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road overbridge, tunnel and SH8 level crossing of Big Hill. By late July 1969 removal of the line was nearing Lawrence with the last train ever leaving Lawrence by early August 1969. By mid-September 1969, Waitahuna too had seen its last train. By the end of October 1969 the last trains had moved
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as removal progressed. Track sets were railed to either of Manuka station further down the branch for temporary storage or to Kakapuaka station south of Balclutha on the Main South Line where further Winter Employment Scheme men were employed dismantling these removed track sets. By mid-November
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ran from Dunedin to Beaumont; the DJ class had been granted running rights on the line that very week. On its return journey that day this diesel-hauled train cleared Beaumont yard and other points south to Lawrence where another train had previously cleared wagons and other equipment out. The DJ
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Trains continued to run during the first week of June 1968 after closure; one each ran to Lawrence, Beaumont and Roxburgh. The last actual (unofficial service train) goods train from Roxburgh (a cleanup train clearing the stations between Roxburgh and Craig Flat of wagons, as well as the three
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supervision on that day. This train, however, turned out not to be the last as the line was granted a two-month reprieve until 31 May 1968 awaiting a final decision on how the export logs from the vicinity of the then Beaumont State forest were to be transported. The nearby Heriot to Edievale
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remains at the site of the former yard, with another boxcar located a couple of kilometres from Teviot, while just out of Beaumont, the original rail bridge over the Beaumont River has been in public use since the year 2000 (Previous to this it had been a private bridge with limited access).
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locomotives worked at the railhead shuttling empty and loaded wagons from and to the nearest exchange siding (the nearest intact station yard) on the branch whilst DJ locomotives periodically cleared out materials removed from that nearest railhead back down the branch to the
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in the 1950s also provided much traffic for the line. Many extra trains were run during this period but train sizes by today's standards remained constrained due to the steep grades and restrictive locomotive power able to be used on the branch.
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1968 removal was approaching the 40 mile peg, about five miles north of Beaumont (in the Beaumont gorge between Craig Flat and Beaumont). Work then ceased due to a labour shortage as seasonal workers went back to work in local
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Removal of the line recommenced on a six-day-a-week basis from mid-May 1969. The last work train had left Beaumont by early June 1969 hauled by a DJ locomotive. By early July 1969 the rail line had been removed from under the
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Although remnants of closed railway lines deteriorate and disappear over time, a number of relics from the Roxburgh Branch still exist. The line's formation can often be sighted winding through the countryside and the
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passenger cars from the official last train) left Roxburgh hauled by an A steam locomotive on 6 June 1968. This was the last ever steam hauled train on the branch. On the same day an engine and van service hauled by a
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at Roxburgh had been removed and cleared out. Men had been recruited from Winter Employment schemes and the mobile crane lifted complete track sets onto flat top wagons for transporting out. During demolition
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With closure announced for 1 April 1968, a passenger excursion train, intended to be the last passenger train to Roxburgh, ran on 31 March 1968 and was hauled by A 795, now preserved on the
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The junction of the Roxburgh Branch with the Main South Line did not always remain in Clarksville. In 1907, an extension of 2.8 km was built alongside the Main South Line into
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Historic Places Trust plaque explaining its significance to the district). A number of relics remain in Roxburgh from its days as a railway terminus; these include a
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operators even before the line reached its greatest length. Steep grades and sharp curves that limited speeds further served to lessen rail's competitiveness.
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to provide for better operation, and until this extension was closed on 19 September 1960, Milton rather than Clarksville acted as the junction.
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were only authorised to operate on the Roxburgh Branch at the time of its closure, to haul trains involved with the dismantling of the line.
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growing region, and during the appropriate season, special trains would run to carry the large quantities of fruit. The construction of the
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Railway in Alexandra, but this did not come to fruition.
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Over the Garden Wall: Story of the Otago Central Railway
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engines were the main type of diesel locomotives used.
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The Railways of New Zealand: A Journey through History
1667:New Zealand Rail Trails: A Guide to 42 Ghost Lines
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1583:John Gibb, "Rail Trail Tourism Boost on Track",
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1650:(1998 ed.). Wellington: Grantham House.
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1602:Churchman, Geoffrey B; Hurst, Tony (2001) .
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1692:Brian's Ghost Railways - Roxburgh Branch
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2695:3 ft 6 in gauge railways in New Zealand
2521:Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company
1501:, "Roxburgh's Last Train", 1 June 1968,
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1648:Exploring New Zealand's Ghost Railways
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1422:J. A. Dangerfield and G. W. Emerson,
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1646:Leitch, David; Scott, Brian (1995).
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1665:Mulligan, Barbara (2000).
1390:Churchman & Hurst 2001
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1841:StratfordâOkahukura Line
1817:MartonâNew Plymouth line
1439:, accessed 13 June 2007.
1355:Otago Central Rail Trail
915:region of New Zealand's
177:3 ft 6 in
139:1925 (to Miller's Flat)
2670:Rail transport in Otago
2612:Taupo railway proposals
2567:AvondaleâSouthdown Line
2024:Waiuku and Mission Bush
1792:South Island Main Trunk
1756:North Island Main Trunk
1572:Leitch & Scott 1995
1560:Leitch & Scott 1995
1449:Leitch & Scott 1995
1411:Leitch & Scott 1995
1061:Craig Flat (68 km)
1046:Evans Flat (41 km)
1025:Round Hill (16 km)
1476:Article, 1 April 1968,
1464:(AprilâJune 1958), 59.
1164:Closure and demolition
1028:Johnstone (20 km)
2572:Auckland Airport Line
2560:Significant proposals
1896:Waimea Plains Railway
1885:Otago Central Railway
1750:East Coast Main Trunk
1620:Cowan, W. J., (2010)
1359:Otago Central Railway
968:Otago Central Railway
921:national rail network
2592:Martinborough Branch
2587:Marsden Point Branch
2456:Dun Mountain Railway
2354:Ngapara and Tokarahi
2305:Dunback and Makareao
1240:Minister of Railways
1067:Minzion (76 km)
1037:Forsyth (29 km)
338:Clarksville Junction
2690:1968 in New Zealand
2685:1877 in New Zealand
1830:North Auckland Line
1319:Mount Stuart Tunnel
1302:Mount Stuart Tunnel
1076:Teviot (88 km)
1064:Rigney (71 km)
1010:Glenore (5 km)
137:1914 (to Beaumont)
135:1877 (to Lawrence)
2607:PaeroaâPokeno Line
2544:Under construction
2468:Glen Massey Branch
1937:Donnellys Crossing
1627:Hermann, Bruce J;
1587:, 24 October 2006.
1574:, p. 102-103.
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1585:Otago Daily Times
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1437:"Roxburgh Branch"
1435:Patrick Dunford,
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