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The Addington Water Tower (Canterbury) Traditional Cache

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Mr Cuddly Brick: Having had to replace a number of times and the best place is by the train station, I reached out to the manager of the stations who was keen on having a cache placed there. This place is now opened up for someone else to place and maintain. I am glade this area has given loads of people a good time and a break when travelling.

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Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

The Addington Water Tower was one of the world's first structures in reinforced concrete.

Near the Train station home of the Trans Alpine and Trans coastal trains.
This Tower was built in 1883 to provide a pressure water supply to the Addington Railway workshops (now demolished). The tower was an innovative and daring structure built at a time when reinforced concrete was still very novel. The tower foundation consisted of clay upon quicksand, and nine inches (230mm) of settlement took place by the time it was completed.

The design was such that the centre of gravity was very low even with the tank full of water so that an earthquake would have to be very severe to capsize it.

Source: IPENZ website (visit link)

The nearby Tower Junction shopping centre has been named after the tower.

The cache, a small screw top container, is in the Christchurch Railway station carpark, which can also be accessed via the Tower Junction carpark. Contains logbook, little room available for much else, please BYOP .

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)