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Railway stations

  • Railway stations

    Before most people had cars or telephones, let alone television and the Internet, the railway provided many communities with their main connection to the outside world.

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  • Page 3 - Station styleRailway stations came in all shapes and sizes, ranging from imposing big-city monuments to elegant wooden provincial structures and tiny rural shelter
  • Oamaru's long wooden station is typical of the stations built in major provincial centres around the turn of the 20th century.

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