IMAGE
View of electric power station, Otira
- Date
- ca 1928
- Reference
- 1/2-062697-F
- Description
View of the electric power house, Otira photographed by an unknown photographer in about 1928.
Library client supplied information about the power house and elctric railway, September 2010.
This coal fired power house supplied electricity to power the locomotives used in the Otira Tunnel. It was built between 1920 and 1923 by English Electric of London. In 1941 it was replaced by power supplied from the Lake Coleridge hydro.
Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Silverwood, R :Photographs of Otira, Arthur's Pass and Otira Tunnel
- Format
- 1 b&w original negative(s), Negatives
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