Terminated Start-Oxymoronic? (Otago) Traditional Cache
Terminated Start-Oxymoronic? (Otago)
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The Roxburgh Branch (Railway) Series.
This is no place for small children as the cache site is close to the South Island main trunk railway line
It was from close to this point that the Roxburgh Branch Line branched off from the main trunk line to head inland to its' terminus at Hercules Flat, Roxburgh East. This is also where the road inland to Central branches off State Highway 1.
As you head North West on that first straight piece of road you will see, on your right and running parallel, the slightly raised "way".
The following history has been taken from WIKIPAEDIA
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The original reason for the line's construction was to provide better transport access to Lawrence, then known as Tuapeka, the site of New Zealand's first significant discovery of gold. Contracts for construction were let by mid-1873, and work on the line was well under way by the next year, with a junction with the Main South Line established at Clarksville. Slips and contractor bankruptcies presented delays, but on 22 January 1877, the line opened to Waitahuna, followed by Lawrence on 2 April 1877, 35.27 km from Clarksville.
Calls were made to extend the Lawrence Branch further, with some proposals suggesting a route via Roxburgh could serve as the railway to Alexandra and Central Otago in general (instead, the Otago Central Railway followed a more circuitous route via the Taieri and Maniototo).
Decades passed until approval was granted to extent the line beyond its Lawrence terminus, with the next section to Big Hill (location of a tunnel between the Bowlers Flat and Craigellachie stations) opened on 4 October 1910. Upon completion of the 434 metre long Big Hill tunnel, the line was opened to Beaumont on 15 December 1914, but World War I delayed construction and the next section to Millers Flat was not opened until 16 December 1925. The line was finally completed when the section from Millers Flat to Roxburgh was opened on 18 April 1928.
A modified form of the proposal to use Roxburgh as the route to Central Otago resurfaced, proposing that the branch be extended to meet the Central Otago Railway in Alexandra, but this did not come to fruition. The junction of the Roxburgh Branch with the Main South Line did not always remain in Clarksville. In 1907, an extension of 2.8 km was built alongside the Main South Line into Milton to provide for better operation, and until this extension was closed on 19 September 1960, Milton rather than Clarksville acted as the junction.
The container is a 400ml Systema Klipit.
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