Bowlers Creek
Coordinates: 45 ° 52 ′ 53 ″ S , 169 ° 36 ′ 58 ″ E
Bowlers Creek is a small stream, valley and was once a small settlement in the Clutha district of the Otago regionon the South Island of New Zealand .
geography
The creek has a length of about 3 km and is located about 7 km northwest of Lawrence .
history
On October 4, 1910, the section of Roxburgh Branch , a branch line of the Main South Line , was inaugurated to Bowlers Creek . Since you had to drive a 434 m long tunnel through Big Hill , the railway did not reach the next station in Craigellachie and Beaumont until December 15, 1914. There was a stop in Bowlers Creek . The entire railway line was shut down on June 1, 1968 and subsequently dismantled.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Topo250 maps . Land Information New Zealand , accessed May 17, 2017 .
- ^ David Leitch, Brian Scott, Exploring New Zealand's Ghost Railways, Grantham House, Wellington 1998, p. 100.
- ↑ Geoffrey B. Churchman, Tony Hurst, The Railways of New Zealand: A Journey Through History HarperCollins, Auckland 1991, p. 204.