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  Archive shots

40th anniversary shots

   

Recent pictures 

 

A track gang resleepering

Pleasant Point's signal getting replaced

Ab699 pulls a newly-painted guard's van

Installing a restored signal at Point

 

Heading towards Pleasant Point station. 

Taken from Saint Mary's Catholic Church clock tower

RM4 heading towards Pleasant Point

A private party of Scouts, Cubs and Keas.  Some try their luck on a hand jigger

A special guest poses beside the locomotive for the annual Santa Train

Original 1875 Pleasant Point ticket office

                                              

                                                   Archive Shots

The 25th anniversary of the branch closure

Eastern end of the shunting yards at Pleasant Point

Ab 718 in the Winscombe Cutting about a year before the line closed

Ab 699 being taken to Christchurch ('89)

A rare colour shot of the Pleasant Point yard.  Parked up is an Ab-hauled goods' train during its trip to Timaru

Most of the yard shown, including the goods' shed site (far right) is now used as a car park, unrecognisable to this photo.

Extending the line in the 1970s

An Ab being turned at Fairlie.  This site is now a sand-trap on the golf course

Track work was hard work - and was no exception on the branch (then or now)

Construction of the Keanes Crossing shed

 

 

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