View of electric power station, Otira

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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