Continuing from the previous article of this series about the Gowanbridge-Murchison section of the railway (which was only ever construction and never ran for any public services). Coming up from Owen River as the road rounds the Rait Road junction there is possibly a culvert under the railway line. This is Owen Junction, the railway…

EDITOR’S NOTE: This article was originally published on a Google Blogger site some years ago. Unfortunately the images from the original post on the Google site have disappeared because of Google’s dumb feature of using Google Photos to store the images in an album that must have been accidentally deleted. As a result some of…

Well one of the things (among many) that is going to come out usefully from the Retrolens imagery is to more exactly show the details of the Nelson Section. A key point of contention has always been the route the line took past Glenhope, particularly the incomplete formation, and given there are a significant number…