Home

Home » coal mining

Pages tagged with: coal mining

Blackball miners' strike cartoon
A victory for the strikers.
Nightcaps mine
New Zealand's southernmost labour dispute in the Great Strike of 1913.
Taupiri coal mine
Site of one of the disputes that set off the Great Strike.
End of the 1913 strike in Huntly
Union officials are evicted from their office in Huntly, 1913
Hikurangi coal mine
On 6 November 1913 the Hikurangi miners voted unanimously to strike in support of their comrades at Huntly.
Rūnanga miners' hall
West Coast authorities did not enrol specials, realising they would be outnumbered by strike supporters.
The 1913 strike in the South Island
Although the 1913 strike had its biggest impact on Auckland and Wellington, the South Island's cities and mining towns were also affected.
Outbreak of the 1913 strike
The 1913 Great Strike was sparked off by two relatively small strikes.
Strikers at Denniston during 1913 strike
Coal miners on strike at Denniston in 1913
Denniston Incline
The bleak Denniston plateau on the West Coast was the country's most productive coalfield.
The dangers of coal - roadside stories
Video about coal mining disasters on the West Coast
Forty-three miners killed in explosion at Huntly
At 7.20 am an explosion at Ralph's mine on Raynor Road rocked Huntly. It was caused by a miner's naked acetylene cap-lamp igniting firedamp (methane gas given off by coal)
Strongman coal mine disaster memorial
Memorial erected in memory of those killed in the 1967 Strongman mine disaster.
Brunner coal mine disaster memorial
On 26 March 1896 an explosion at Brunner, West Coast, killed 65 coal miners in New Zealand’s worst mining disaster.
Seddonville's rail heritage
The Ngakawau-Seddonville branch line was built solely for the transport of coal from mines near Seddonville to Westport harbour, where it was then transported around New Zealand by sea.
Train crossing Chasm Creek bridge, 1903
Photographer Henry Winkelmann captured this mixed train with passenger carriages crossing Chasm Creek bridge in 1903
Westport-Cardiff coal train
A fully laden coal train, about to leave for Westport.
Trains on the Seddonville line
A short history of the coal trains that ran on the Seddonville line.
Train on Chasm Creek bridge, 1968
Powered by Ww571, a freight train carrying timber and coal crosses Chasm Creek bridge in December 1968
Chasm Creek walkway
Part of the old railway line west of Seddonville has been converted into a short walkway, which crosses the historic Chasm Creek bridge

Pages

© Crown Copyright. All text is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 New Zealand Licence. Commercial re-use may be allowed on request. All non-text content is subject to specific conditions.
This site is produced by the History Group of the New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Meet the NZHistory.net.nz team