A photo used in the book The Midland Line: New Zealand's trans-alpine railway (now out of print) shows the celebrations for completion of the drilling of the Otira tunnel at Arthur's Pass; here the arrival of the West Coast party in their stagecoaches from Otira, August 1918. It was to be another 5 years, however, before trains would traverse between Arthur's Pass and Otira. One notes that there are both Tea Rooms and Refreshment Rooms.
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