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Date Created29th August 2021CommentsKen Tomlinson
Was unloading super there one day & they shunted wagons down my track whilst i had pelican bucket in the wagon.
Martin James
So disconnected from the town.
David Hall
Really enjoyed my trips to Ross on the Railcars
Ken Tomlinson
Railcar used to sit on bridge waiting for station master to arrive to flag it in.
Nicky Ramsay
Never rode on the train. But when up the line on the Golden Bungee a fair few times. Then the Problegos after the railway line came up
Nicky Ramsay
May be an image of one or more people, people standing and outdoors
Biddy Manera
Your Johnny and my Ben. My brother John is the adult ducking down.
Nicky Ramsay
Not me in the pic
Dave Manera
Nicky Ramsay definitely Johnny jr
Paul Agnes Smith
Got there once on a 'learn the road' trip. Subsequent changovers were Hokitika.
Neil Tozer
Is that the kid bikes under the vefa
]Les Ellis
We would go down to the the rail late 1976 onwards to load cattle to go to Addington sale or freezing works, worked for Wrightson NMA.
Sue Vaughan
Use to travel back and forwards to Ross to stay at my grandparents place. Love the trip every time we went. Precious memories.
Tina Thomson
My father Ken Thomson started working here in he’s teenager years,worked for the railway for 52 years,
Kath Wood
Tina Thomson I knew yr dad ken he had a brother Arthur and yr grandfather was wattle I grew up in Ross
Dean Gutberlet
I have seen many Ross station photos and have stared at google maps of Ross and can’t for the life of me figure out where it used to be. Can someone please help out with a location?
Jack Pittaway
Dean Gutberlet I believe if you follow the line from the disused bridge over river towards the road to the seaside campground. This is now a cycle trail but believe the station was just before the road or just over the other side of it.
Ray Port
Jack Pittaway Yes I left there late 60s.
We were first railway family to be moved when it was decided Ross line would eventually close.
Phyllis Williams
I lived in the railway house with that view for 13yrs as Dad Vic Eckhoff was the engine driver till 1968
Warner Nut Curry
Great photo thanks
Dave Manera
I remember playing down there.. rode the last rail car..
Howard Lester
Malcolm Mason
Jenny Leach
Loved travelling on the railcar to high school each day
Ray Port
Remember it well.
Had our kids xmas party waiting to sit on santas knee waiting patiently for my present.
John Flattery-donohoe
most foolish thing closing that line it shouldof carried on down to haast .the money the coast would of made from that line
John Flattery-donohoe
a ha
Roberta Moore
This was the end of the line for the Railcar. We used to catch the railcar at Karoro (in Greymouth) on our way home from school for the holidays.
Donna McBrydie
Roberta Moore so did I Boarded at the hostel and had to get out of school a bit early to catch the rail car
Andrew John Wilson
What the structure over the track in the far distance
Bryan Eckhoff
Andrew John Wilson it was where they trucked the lime to from the lime works to load into the wagons
Chris Ogunmayin
Sometimes used to travel home from greymouth hostel on the railcar.
Evelyn Hampton
Chris Ogunmayin I remember helping you to escape once and you got that train home ,still makes me laugh....
Douglas Dunn
End of the line, or it once was. Great place for kids 60 years ago.
Dea Minehan
That station now our woolshed... Minehan's Totara Valley...but can remember cleaning out rail bins of super with household shovels and cattle going to chch,all before tb!!
Dea Minehan
Dea Minehan and ken Barb Thomson threatening to call my parents when I had alcohol on the trans Alpine 1978 ish
Maria Sunderland
Dea Minehan I wondered where it was
Ray Port
Dont remember it being so small.
We had kids xmas parties there and felt there was 100 people in there.
Malcolm Mason
The structure at the far end is the limeworks load out hopper was not a great success as we used to tip straight into the wagons
James Codyre
Think Bill Ross was station master at some time.???
Jean McIntyre
I remember how the guard would sometimes make us all get out of our seats so he could reverse them for trip back - & when the railcar would sometimes stop on tracks at Mahinapua & guard would run over to pub - probably to deliver something but of course we thought he was going for a quick beer !
Ann Selander
You are so right Jean those were the days and that long pedal home on wet days hoho. Keep safe
Lyn Murphy
My grandmother was born at Ross in 1881.
Robert Wilson
i spent many hours there,,after scouts every weekend plus musselling stealing passion fruit,,
Sue O'Hara
My ex husband worked there in 1973 just as the rail line closed
Gary Scott
Awesome photo for NZR modelers to replicate.
Helen Ruscoe
Peter Detlaff is there any sign of the station there still?
Peter Detlaff
Helen Ruscoe no all gone
Helen Ruscoe
Peter Detlaff I find it quite sad in a way. NZ doesn't seem to mind bowling down it's history.
Was unloading super there one day & they shunted wagons down my track whilst i had pelican bucket in the wagon.
Martin James
So disconnected from the town.
David Hall
Really enjoyed my trips to Ross on the Railcars
Ken Tomlinson
Railcar used to sit on bridge waiting for station master to arrive to flag it in.
Nicky Ramsay
Never rode on the train. But when up the line on the Golden Bungee a fair few times. Then the Problegos after the railway line came up
Nicky Ramsay
May be an image of one or more people, people standing and outdoors
Biddy Manera
Your Johnny and my Ben. My brother John is the adult ducking down.
Nicky Ramsay
Not me in the pic
Dave Manera
Nicky Ramsay definitely Johnny jr
Paul Agnes Smith
Got there once on a 'learn the road' trip. Subsequent changovers were Hokitika.
Neil Tozer
Is that the kid bikes under the vefa
]Les Ellis
We would go down to the the rail late 1976 onwards to load cattle to go to Addington sale or freezing works, worked for Wrightson NMA.
Sue Vaughan
Use to travel back and forwards to Ross to stay at my grandparents place. Love the trip every time we went. Precious memories.
Tina Thomson
My father Ken Thomson started working here in he’s teenager years,worked for the railway for 52 years,
Kath Wood
Tina Thomson I knew yr dad ken he had a brother Arthur and yr grandfather was wattle I grew up in Ross
Dean Gutberlet
I have seen many Ross station photos and have stared at google maps of Ross and can’t for the life of me figure out where it used to be. Can someone please help out with a location?
Jack Pittaway
Dean Gutberlet I believe if you follow the line from the disused bridge over river towards the road to the seaside campground. This is now a cycle trail but believe the station was just before the road or just over the other side of it.
Ray Port
Jack Pittaway Yes I left there late 60s.
We were first railway family to be moved when it was decided Ross line would eventually close.
Phyllis Williams
I lived in the railway house with that view for 13yrs as Dad Vic Eckhoff was the engine driver till 1968
Warner Nut Curry
Great photo thanks
Dave Manera
I remember playing down there.. rode the last rail car..
Howard Lester
Malcolm Mason
Jenny Leach
Loved travelling on the railcar to high school each day
Ray Port
Remember it well.
Had our kids xmas party waiting to sit on santas knee waiting patiently for my present.
John Flattery-donohoe
most foolish thing closing that line it shouldof carried on down to haast .the money the coast would of made from that line
John Flattery-donohoe
a ha
Roberta Moore
This was the end of the line for the Railcar. We used to catch the railcar at Karoro (in Greymouth) on our way home from school for the holidays.
Donna McBrydie
Roberta Moore so did I Boarded at the hostel and had to get out of school a bit early to catch the rail car
Andrew John Wilson
What the structure over the track in the far distance
Bryan Eckhoff
Andrew John Wilson it was where they trucked the lime to from the lime works to load into the wagons
Chris Ogunmayin
Sometimes used to travel home from greymouth hostel on the railcar.
Evelyn Hampton
Chris Ogunmayin I remember helping you to escape once and you got that train home ,still makes me laugh....
Douglas Dunn
End of the line, or it once was. Great place for kids 60 years ago.
Dea Minehan
That station now our woolshed... Minehan's Totara Valley...but can remember cleaning out rail bins of super with household shovels and cattle going to chch,all before tb!!
Dea Minehan
Dea Minehan and ken Barb Thomson threatening to call my parents when I had alcohol on the trans Alpine 1978 ish
Maria Sunderland
Dea Minehan I wondered where it was
Ray Port
Dont remember it being so small.
We had kids xmas parties there and felt there was 100 people in there.
Malcolm Mason
The structure at the far end is the limeworks load out hopper was not a great success as we used to tip straight into the wagons
James Codyre
Think Bill Ross was station master at some time.???
Jean McIntyre
I remember how the guard would sometimes make us all get out of our seats so he could reverse them for trip back - & when the railcar would sometimes stop on tracks at Mahinapua & guard would run over to pub - probably to deliver something but of course we thought he was going for a quick beer !
Ann Selander
You are so right Jean those were the days and that long pedal home on wet days hoho. Keep safe
Lyn Murphy
My grandmother was born at Ross in 1881.
Robert Wilson
i spent many hours there,,after scouts every weekend plus musselling stealing passion fruit,,
Sue O'Hara
My ex husband worked there in 1973 just as the rail line closed
Gary Scott
Awesome photo for NZR modelers to replicate.
Helen Ruscoe
Peter Detlaff is there any sign of the station there still?
Peter Detlaff
Helen Ruscoe no all gone
Helen Ruscoe
Peter Detlaff I find it quite sad in a way. NZ doesn't seem to mind bowling down it's history.
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West Coast New Zealand History (1st Sep 2021). Ross Station. In Website West Coast New Zealand History. Retrieved 4th Apr 2026 17:31, from https://westcoast.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/29928