IMAGE
Otira railway tunnel under construction, and workers
- Date
- [ca 1920]
- Reference
- PAColl-0678-01
- Description
Otira railway tunnel under construction, with workers outside. Taken by an unidentified photographer circa 1920.
Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - N Z Midland Railway Tunnel under construction; Backing board recto - beneath image - 5 1/4 miles long. Otira; Backing board verso - top centre - Klerksdorp [unreadable letter] - Streams Rly 1904
The Otira tunnel was opened on 4 August 1923.
Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Mathew, S C :Photographs relating to railways
- Format
- 1 b&w original photographic print(s), Photographs, Orientation: Horizontal image
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