H. E. Wedde Photo. FORESHORE EROSION AT OAMARU.—After 40 years in the New Zealand railway service, U.B. 281, a Baldwin locomotive, has been dumped on the foreshore at Oamaru to afford protection to the municipal gasworks, the safety of which is being threatened by the encroachment of the aea. This particular locomotive drew the Christchurch-Oamaru express for many years and was running on the Kurow branch line until recently.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19070, 18 July 1936, Page 14
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69H. E. Wedde Photo. FORESHORE EROSION AT OAMARU.—After 40 years in the New Zealand railway service, U.B. 281, a Baldwin locomotive, has been dumped on the foreshore at Oamaru to afford protection to the municipal gasworks, the safety of which is being threatened by the encroachment of the aea. This particular locomotive drew the Christchurch-Oamaru express for many years and was running on the Kurow branch line until recently. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19070, 18 July 1936, Page 14
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