Railway: Kingston Branch
Distance (from zero peg): 124-127km
Nearest town: Kingston
Accessibility: Easy
Pros: Pleasant location, awesome NZ 'big country' vistas, sexy tourists.
Cons: I don't live close enough!
Bit of a wander around the Fairlight area. Gorgeous day. Smell of gorse. NZ! Awesome!
↑ Looking reminiscent of pics I've seen of abandoned railways in the California desert.
↑ 127km peg!
↑ Where the line exits the cutting to emerge onto the long embankment into Fairlight station.
↑ Aforementioned embankment buried under a sea of gorse.
↑ My ass has click-clacked over this rail joint a fair few times.
↑ End Of Rails.
↑ Te Araroa Trail swingbridge on the site of railway bridge over Mataura River. Whereas the swing bridge is aligned with the original railway bridge abutments on the south bank, the north swingbridge abutment appears to be ever so slightly downstream of the railway bridge abutment.
↑ Final pic. As a keen student of loco/railway dumps, the upstream side of the south bank seems to be a sitter for a dump site. On a previous visit many years ago I found a buffer and half a gas cut wagon headstock about 30m upstream among the willows. They have since disappeared.
Easily accessible, scenic, full of railway interest. A great place for a fossic!!
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