Also known as either 'Horseshoe Gully', 'Siberia Curve' or 'Siberia Gorge'. A notoriously difficult section on the Rimutaka Incline (now known as the Rimutaka Rail Trail).
Siberia Gully
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Siberia, Rimutaka Incline - Photograph taken by Frank Arnold Coxhead
Date: [ca 1880s]
From: Christie, Hettie Florence, 1902-1988 :Photographs and album of New Zealand scenes
By: Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908
Reference: PA7-41-19
Description: View of Horseshoe Gully (also known as Siberia) section of the Rimutaka Railway with barriers erected on the curve of the line. The Fell track system can be seen on the far right of the photograph. Taken by F A Coxhead in 1880s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Siberia, Rimutaka Railway, Wellington, N.Z. 563; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - F.A.C. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14.4 x 20.2 cm
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Jack Chews with motor car at Siberia, Rimutaka
Date: September 1957
From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs
Reference: 1/4-129248-F
Description: Related index card reads: Transport. Wairarapa. Motor car at Siberia after Rimutaka line rails pulled up and sold for scrap to Japan. Jack Chews of Carterton in Photo. September 1957. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: 60mm single frame film negative
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Railway workers' shelter near Siberia on Rimutaka Line
Date: September 1957
From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs
Reference: LCI-02-015
Description: Index card reads: Transport. Wairarapa. Railway workers' shelter near Siberia on Rimutaka line, September 1957. Quantity: 1 item(s) of photographic ephemera handmade index card. Physical Description: Cardboard index card with attached proof print(s), 13 x 19cm
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Jack Chews with motor car at Siberia, Rimutaka
Date: September 1957
From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs
Reference: LCI-02-014
Description: Index card reads: Transport. Wairarapa. Motor car at Siberia after Rimutaka line rails pulled up and sold for scrap to Japan. Jack Chews of Carterton in Photo. September 1957. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 item(s) of photographic ephemera handmade index card. Physical Description: Cardboard index card with attached proof print(s), 13 x 19cm
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Siberia-Rimutaka Railway, Wellington
Date: [189-?]
From: Green, N H (Mr), fl 1959 :Photographs
By: Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908
Reference: PAColl-7304-01
Description: Photograph of the Horseshoe Gully (or Siberia Curve) section of the Rimutaka Railway in Wellington, showing cleared bush on either side of the tracks, taken circa 1890s? by Frank Arnold Coxhead. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Siberia-Rimutaka Railway Wellington NZ 555; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - F.A.C. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 20 x 14.5 cm, on backing board 20.2 x 15.8 cm
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Fell engine and train exiting Siberia Tunnel on the Rimutaka Incline
Date: [ca 1910]
From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives
Reference: APG-0153-1/2-G
Description: Fell engine and train exiting Siberia Tunnel on the Rimutaka Incline. High fences as windbreaks are on both sides of the railway line, with a young boy (possibly William Godber) sitting on the fence in right foreground. Photograph taken ca 1910 by Albert Percy Godber. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass plate negative
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Siberia, Rimutaka Incline
Date: ca 1890s
From: Burton Brothers, 1868-1898 (Firm, Dunedin) :Photographs of the Rimutaka Incline
Reference: PAColl-7324-1
Description: "Siberia", also known as Horseshoe Gully, Rimutaka Incline, photographed by the Burton Brothers circa 1890s. Shows railway lines with a central rail. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 4474 - "Siberia" Rimutaka Incline Burton Bros Dunedin Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 16.4 x 21.9 cm
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Wallis, J. H. :Scene of the late railway catastrophe on the Rimutaka line. Supplement t...
Date: 1880
By: Wallis, J H, active 1880; New Zealand mail (Newspaper)
Reference: B-034-004
Description: Shows carriages and passengers falling downhill into a gully, after the Greytown to Wellington train derailed. The words First class can be distinguished on the side on one carriage, with Mount Cook on the side of the engine. Two people are clinging to the railway line and another eighteen are shown tumbling down the hill amongst the carriages, hats and luggage. he accident occurred on 11 September 1880, on the Wairarapa side of the range, at a place popularly called `Siberia', as the train ascended towards the summit. See Evening Post, 11, 13, 14 & 15 September 1880 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - J. H. Wallis T Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 16 x 12 ins
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Railway workers' shelter near Siberia on Rimutaka Line
Date: September 1957
From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs
Reference: 1/4-129249-F
Description: Related index card reads: Transport. Wairarapa. Railway workers' shelter near Siberia on Rimutaka line, September 1957. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: 60mm single frame film negative