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The Plains Vintage Railway & Historical Museum is a heritage railway and recreated historic village in the Tinwald Domain, Tinwald, New Zealand.The railway (operating as The Plains Railway) runs on approximately three kilometres of rural railway line that was once part of the Mount Somers Branch.
Leather-covered sandbag, wood blocks and tools , used in wood engraving Wood engraving is a printmaking technique, in which an artist works an image into a block of wood. Functionally a variety of woodcut , it uses relief printing , where the artist applies ink to the face of the block and prints using relatively low pressure.
Bay of Islands Vintage Railway Limited, a joint venture between the Society and the Trust, was incorporated in 1995 with the Society owning the locomotives, rolling stock, sheds and miscellaneous equipment and the Trust owning the track and leasing the rail corridor and the Kawakawa station building from New Zealand Rail Limited (later Tranz ...
Plans for the new station building were finalised in 1962. The new building was one of several changes intended for the station, with other work including a new 1.25 miles (2.01 km) loop line, alterations to the yard trackwork (including moving the main line), a new platform, a new veranda, and alterations to the road approaches.
The Railways Department's Housing Scheme refers to a housing programme undertaken by the New Zealand Railways Department (also known as NZR or New Zealand Government Railways) during the 1920s. The scheme was intended to provide railway workers and their families with affordable and accessible accommodation during a time when it was otherwise ...
New Zealand Upgrade Programme logo. On 29 January 2020, the New Zealand Upgrade Programme was announced by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.The programme is a $12 billion infrastructure package to improve roads, rail, hospitals and schools around the country, [1] [2] of which $8 billion has been allocated and the other $4 billion is part of the infrastructure section of the 2020 budget.
Timber was formed into houses, fencepoles, pouwhenua, containers, taiaha, tool handles and waka (canoe). Carving tools were made from stone, preferably the very hard pounamu (greenstone). Bone was used for fish hooks and needles amongst other things.
The Martyrdom of Two Saints from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is an Italian chiaroscuro woodcut by Antonio da Trento that had cuts in the support. When conservators looked more closely at this artwork in 2016, they also saw unusual discolorations that proved that newer materials were used to conserve the piece in the past, and the added ...