Stockton coalmine 1940`s.

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DescriptionNew Zealand - West Coast
- Coal Mining
- Coal wagons and engine
- Circa 1940’s?
- Photo Postcard Format
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Date of Photoca.1940`sMap^[1]External LinkMadon NZContributor Richard Wooders

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Location (city or town)WestportLandmark (Place)Stockton

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Category TagCoal Mining

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CommentsBrian Wheatley
Here's another shot https://westcoast.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/19315
Electric Loco at the no. 3 Loop, Stockton Mine, about 1920 - 21.
WESTCOAST.RECOLLECT.CO.NZ
Electric Loco at the no. 3 Loop, Stockton Mine, about 1920 - 21.
Electric Loco at the no. 3 Loop, Stockton Mine, about 1920 - 21.

Mike Taylor
Definitely Stockton

David Maciulaitis
All are Stockton the railway was the first electric 'railway' to operate in NZ starting in around 1908 and ceasing operation when the aerial ropeway started in 1953.
There were 7 locomotives, 5 for 'mainline' use and two for shunting. All built by Gen… See More

Alexander Gray
David Maciulaitis anymore info? Sad but for the odd photo there is nothing much written about it

David Maciulaitis
Alexander Gray It's a wee topic I'm looking at now. Very little easily accessible information - online.
Real research with trips to Archives and local museums will be required.

Alexander Gray
Your onto it mike, it is on the flat at tintown with mt stockton in the background

Kevin Fleming
Logos were used from the incline head at Stockton to Bins at?was it? Dee Hill?They were electric.

Don McNarn
It could be Denniston
Donal Bailey
I used to play on the abandoned loco's in the late 1950s when l lived in stockton as a boy, they were parked up just above stockton township and were no longer being used by this time

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