Friday, April 12, 2019

the opening of Toko railway station, 1902


Although the same year as the end of the Boer war, this is NZ, not South Africa -- although from the look of those trees you could be excused for thinking it has been a recent war zone. Toko is the first township east of Stratford on the Stratford--Okahukura Line in the Taranaki, a line which was 'mothballed' under the Colossus of Roads, Steven Joyce.

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