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Loading a railway wagon

Loading a railway wagon

Men unload bagged carcasses from a railway wagon, about 1920. Insulated wagons for transporting frozen meat from freezing works to port were designed and built at the Addington railway workshops in Christchurch from the mid-1890s.

About this item

Alexander Turnbull Library, S. C. Smith Collection (PAColl-3082)
Reference: 1/2-045403; G
Photograph by Sydney Charles Smith

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Nancy Swarbrick. 'Rural services', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, updated 27-Sep-11
URL: http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/rural-services/3/3