Pukerua Bay, Wellington NZ, when there was no road

A 1930s picture from the NZ Railways Magazine before the Centennial Highway was built in 1940.  It shows a WAB locomotive with an impressive rake of carriages for Napier; ah those were the days.

Actually this railway scene changed by 1940 too, as the electric catenary was built by that year as far as Paekakariki and this spot became South Junction, the southern end of the 5 km single track section along the difficult coastal section with its steep cliffs. With the electrification most trains were then hauled by an ED electric as far as Paekakariki.