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CommentsGary Murdoch Wonder what year this is. The railway is in place so must have been after the Blackball bridge opened in 1910, or was it '12?
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Peter Kerr
Peter Kerr The bins are not complete but the railway is and there are tubs on the incline. I would say 1910, 1911 at the latest. Roa coal was being hauled across Soldiers Creek to Ngahere by light construction engines before the Blackball aerial tram closed. A stripped W class engine, boiler and coal bunker MT, firebars and irons out, cab and cow catchers off, was hauled across Soldiers Creek on the end of a wire rope to run coal between Roa and Blackball. Soldiers Creek trestle was partly lightly built to take construction trains from which fill was side dumped to fill it in.
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Maria Stevens
Maria Stevens Eleanor Williams - would this be when Nan lived here? 1910/11
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Eleanor Williams
Eleanor Williams Think Nana would of been there as she was born in 1909 at Roa. She went to school in Nelson. Unsure as to when they moved to Nelson but she remembered them going to Nelson by horse and cart and it taking a couple of days or more, so she must have been 4-5 when they moved.

Les Neilson My first job was going up to middle flat up the rope road through the tunnel. And over the viaduct to help take the coal boxes off the aerial from the top mine
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Wendy Gilmour
Wendy Gilmour Les Neilson ahhhhhh those were the days, how you doing xxxx
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Les Neilson
Les Neilson Wendy Gilmour going pretty good thanks Wendy
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Jeanne Thomson
Jeanne Thomson Wendy Gilmour Hi Wendy where are you living now would love to catch up I am living in Shirley and still see the Berry girls Pauline, Nicki , Judith and Leanne. I guess you know Alison passed away. I was with her at the end. True friends never die are always with you.

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