Brian's place - Ghost Railways

Brian's place

Seddonville

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I have joined these two locations on one page because, well, I felt like it. And they both start with 'R'.

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Seddonville was a another railway built to transfer coal from the mines down to Westport. This, along with the Denniston/Conns Creek area has to be my favourite ghost area. A very beautiful and short (30 minutes?) walk along the trackbed, two very nice bridges and a neat wee tunnel - these photos can't do it justice.

We walked the Chasm Creek walkway (which is the old railway line) from the Seddonville end - this is the first bridge we encountered.The scenery is just gorgeous!

This is the view into the creek off the left hand side walking east. A typical brackish stream.

This is the view off the right hand side, the stream empties into the Mokihinui River.The Railway trip along this gorge must have been one of the most picturesque - does anybody have ANY pictures of the line in operation?

This is the second bridge - as you can see it is very safe and an excellent walking track.

Chasm Creek Walkway

About half way along you encounter the tunnel. The flora around this area (especially the mosses and ferns) is worth the trip by itself.

I find it interesting to see tunnels with the roof still blackened from locomotives long gone... maybe rusting away at the bottom of Omoto Gorge, or turned into Toyotas and Mitsubishis. What Loco's would have run this line? WW's?

		This has to be the most scenic tunnel entrance I has seen - the photo looks haunted but in real life it was... just idyllic
	A cutting. Go see. Walk. Enjoy.

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