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Film: the North Island main trunk line

'The Silver Spike', a documentary about the history of the North Island main trunk line shown on the New Zealand Film Unit's Pictorial parade, No. 81, 7 November 1958.

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    The North Island main trunk line

Keywords

railways
raurimu
trains
railway stations
Credit

Film courtesy of Archives New Zealand - Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga
Reference number: AAPG W3589/16PP81B
See more about this film on Archives New Zealand's Audio Visual wiki
Permission of Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga must be obtained before any re-use of this material.

See also a higher quality extract from this documentary on the TVNZ website.

How to cite this page

'Film: the North Island main trunk line', URL: /media/video/history-of-the-north-island-main-trunk-line, (Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated 15-Jul-2013

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