Zealand Railways Department (NZR). The workshops closed in 1990. Addington Railway Workshops were opened in 1877 to overhaul and construct railway equipment...
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opened in 1874 and the railway workshops were moved to Addington in 1880. By the time the show grounds were opened in 1887, Addington had become an important...
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Rail transport in Christchurch (redirect from Railways in Christchurch)
Zealand's South Island, consists of two main trunk railway lines intersecting in the suburb of Addington, carrying mainly long-haul freight traffic but also...
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Addington F.C., a South African soccer club Addington Field, an airport serving Elizabethtown, Kentucky, USA Addington Railway Workshops, a railway facility...
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in the eastern parts of the city, and also with railway staff based at the Addington Railway Workshops. In 1959, there were still two daily return services...
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Railway Workshop Kharagpur Railway Workshop Carriage Repair Workshop, Lower Parel, Mumbai Golden Rock Railway Workshop New Zealand Addington Workshops East...
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NZR AB class (category Railway locomotives introduced in 1915)
originated from the construction of A class 4-6-2 No. 409 at Addington Railway Workshops in 1906. A two-cylinder simple-expansion locomotive, 409 was...
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Addington, with Woolston housing a large amount of New Zealand's rubber industry. Many warehouses, factories and large premises of railway workshops were...
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in the Addington Railway Workshops. Along with opening new lines, NZR began acquiring a number of the private railways which had built railway lines around...
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in the 1950s and 1960s. These carriages would be brought from Addington Railway Workshops in Christchurch, shunted into the riverbed, and then burnt to...
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Christchurch railway station is in the Canterbury region of New Zealand's South Island. It is on the Main North Line at Addington junction, and is the...
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Zealand's first 4-8-0 locomotive was built in the Addington Railway Workshops of the New Zealand Railways Department (NZR) in 1899 and designated B class...
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NZR W class (category Railway locomotives introduced in 1889)
two steam locomotives built at the Addington Railway Workshops in Christchurch, New Zealand by the New Zealand Railways Department (NZR). They were the first...
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particularly the suburbs of Woolston and Addington. Many warehouses, factories and large premises of railway workshops were built along the Main South Line...
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previously located at the Addington Workshops was relocated to East Town. East Town had been operating as two complete sets of workshops for both the Maintenance...
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56-foot carriage. Built in 1939 at Addington Workshops, Christchurch. Overhauled at United Group's Hutt Workshops and returned to Pukeoware in May 2008...
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of the workshops. Otahuhu Workshops (replaced Newmarket Workshops) Addington Workshops Hillside Workshops Hutt Workshops New Zealand Railways Department...
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Newmarket Workshops, replaced by Otahuhu Workshops Addington Workshops Hillside Workshops Hutt Workshops McClare 1998, p. 19. Pierre 1981, p. 152. McClare...
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4-6-2 (category Railway locomotives introduced in 1901)
Pacific locomotives of the A class, built in 1906 by the NZR's Addington Railway Workshops and by A & G Price Limited. Two of these have been preserved...
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also maintains rolling stock. The Hutt Workshops were preceded by a workshops at Petone, adjacent to the railway station. It operated from 1876 when first...
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Christchurch, New Zealand. His father and brothers worked in the Addington Railway Workshops, but instead of following them in this line of work, he has noted:...
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Canterbury University College in 1942. In 1946, he began the Addington Railway Workshops Choir, which was supported by Bob Semple, the Minister of Works...
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Technical High School. After leaving school, he worked at the Addington Railway Workshops, but became a travelling sales representative for a wine and...
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NZR 56-foot carriage (category Railway coaches of New Zealand)
with the initial batch of 92 being built at Otahuhu Railway Workshops and Addington Railway Workshops. It took until 1945 to complete the order. Further...
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in 1878. He first settled in Christchurch and worked at the Addington Railway Workshops. He married Gwendoline Marie Payne in Christchurch on 21 July...
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Main South Line (category Railway lines in New Zealand)
from 1928. The four sleepers for the service were rebuilt at Addington Railway Workshops from ordinary cars, each with an 8-berth compartment for ladies...
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educated at Christchurch Boys' High School. He worked in the Addington Railway Workshops and as a journalist. Thorn was a bugler in the third New Zealand...
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Chairman of a Royal Commission's on Railway rolling stock and Tramways, and Commission's on the Addington Railway Workshops, and wartime munitions. He was...
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provided access to the industrial area off Blenheim Road and to the Addington Railway Workshops. A small change was made in 1947 to provide better access to...
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specially commissioned Board of Inquiry into the efficiency of the Addington Railway Workshops (Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives .....
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