Local History / October 2012
November 2012 | August 2012-
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Great weekend at RailEx
- Rimutaka Incline Railway
- Lots of interest was shown in the Trust's display at RailEx, held at the Horticultural Hall, Lower Hutt over the weekend of 27-28 October. The Trust's display at RailEx.29 October 2012
- Accepted from Rimutaka Incline Railway Heritage Trust news
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- rimutaka-railway
Rimutaka Incline Railway Heritage Trust, Maymorn, Upper Hutt, Upper Hutt City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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More Dunajtschik
- Eye of the Fish
- Regarding the old Temperance and General Building on Lambton Quay – known to next to no-one as the Harcourts building. Submissions on it’s proposed demolition are due in a week – by the end of the month. It is a crunch point for Wellingtonians – should a building owner be allowed to demolish their building [...]
- Accepted from Eye of the Fish feed
- Tagged as:
- heritage-buildings
- consultation
- harcourts-building
Grey Street, Wellington Central, Wellington, Wellington Region, 6012, New Zealand
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Successful engine test for Tr189
- Rimutaka Incline Railway
- After a lot of hard work by our volunteers the Gardner 6LX diesel engine roared back to life on Saturday 6 October 2012. A long list of tasks had been worked through to get the engine ready for testing, including electrical systems, water pump, manifold, filters and oil system checks.Project: Shunting loco Tr189Tr 189 outside shed at Maymorn, 6 October 20127 October 2012
- Accepted from Rimutaka Incline Railway Heritage Trust news
- Automatically tagged as:
- local-history
- rimutaka-railway
Rimutaka Incline Railway Heritage Trust, Maymorn, Upper Hutt, Upper Hutt City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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The heritage of the Quay – real, or fake?
- Wellington Scoop
- Accepted from Wellington Scoop features
- Tagged as:
- heritage-buildings
Grey Street, Wellington Central, Wellington, Wellington Region, 6011, New Zealand
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Dunajtschik demolition
- Eye of the Fish
- So the time has come at last: the first of a presumed wave of proposals to demolish perfectly good buildings in Wellington. Christchurch has had to put up with a swathe of demolition over the last couple of years, and they are getting so good at destroying everything down there, that they have forgotten that it is not compulsory. Cranmer Courts is their city’s latest disgrace – the Harcourts building is ours.
- Accepted from Eye of the Fish feed
- Tagged as:
- heritage-buildings
- harcourts-building
Grey Street, Wellington Central, Wellington, Wellington Region, 6011, New Zealand
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Mainline build
- Rimutaka Incline Railway
- During September we have connected the double slip at Maymorn to our existing mainline track.
- Accepted from Rimutaka Incline Railway Heritage Trust news
- Automatically tagged as:
- local-history
- rimutaka-railway
Rimutaka Incline Railway Heritage Trust, Maymorn, Upper Hutt, Upper Hutt City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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