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- 00:47, 16 January 2025 Mangarakau Area Tramways (hist | edit) [7,475 bytes] Robert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== INTRODUCTION == Mangarakau was a remote and difficult area to settle, yet significant industries were established here and thrived for a number of years, including farming, flax milling, logging, and coal mining. As it was that only road access to communities even further south, it also boasted a Post and Telegraph office. == Mangarakau Flax Mill == Flax milling was one of the earlier industries to be established here but all as small operations that relied on adeq...")
- 22:54, 15 January 2025 Kaihoka Area Tramways (hist | edit) [890 bytes] Robert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Introduction")
- 02:54, 15 January 2025 Pakawau Area Tramways (hist | edit) [372 bytes] Robert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "While the details of the adjoining Puponga Tramway area are well established, things are much vaguer around Pakawau. Historically this was one of the first coal mine areas to be developed in Golden Bay but with better quality coal having been found at Puponga, resulted in other mines progressively closing down. The two most established mines were at Pakawau and Ferntown")
- 21:57, 14 January 2025 Puponga Area Tramways (hist | edit) [4,268 bytes] Robert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== PUPONGA COAL MINE == Puponga has a long history of coal mining, but coal had been mine at nearby Ferntown and Pakawau for many years prior to the discovery of a substantial seam of good coal at Puponga by Joseph Taylor and his two sons in 1895. Taylor was a trained geologist but also served the district as an Anglican pastor, and while developing the Puponga mine was met with innumerable struggles, he finally achieved his goal of owning an operational mine by March 1...")
- 05:19, 14 January 2025 Golden Bay Industrial Tramways (hist | edit) [2,784 bytes] Robert (talk | contribs) (Created page with " <imagemap> File:Golden Bay Industrial Tramways v1.png|Right|500px </imagemap>")
- 04:26, 14 January 2025 Tasman Region Industrial Tramways (hist | edit) [1,576 bytes] Robert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''INTRODUCTION''' This page gets you a step closer to finding lists of Industrial Tramways for a particular area. The large regions the country has been split up into are still too large to list individual tramways but help in defining smaller areas where tramways existed. These smaller areas have been given geographical names and clicking on the area or name will take you to a page listing all known tramways with links to pages for each individual one. This page also...") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
- 04:11, 14 January 2025 Northland Region Industrial Tramways (hist | edit) [4,385 bytes] Robert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''INTRODUCTION''' This page gets you a step closer to finding lists of Industrial Tramways for a particular area. The large regions the country has been split up into are still too large to list individual tramways but help in defining smaller areas where tramways existed. These smaller areas have been given geographical names and clicking on the area or name will take you to a page listing all known tramways with links to pages for each individual one. This page also...") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
- 02:07, 13 January 2025 Registering as a new user (hist | edit) [181 bytes] Robert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Registering is easy == To register and become a contributor to the Railway Knowledge Base for New Zealand just click the following link. Register Here")