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Manawatū Gorge road, c.1891. Previously, traffic travelling from the east and west of the central North Island [3] used the Manawatū Gorge road, first opened in 1872. [4] The road closed in 2004 and 2015, and also from 2011 to 2012 that lasted more than a year. On 24 April 2017, a slip from the Tararua Range cut off the road. Following more ...
Manawatu Gorge viewed from a lookout on the Manawatu Gorge Track. The Manawatū Gorge (Māori: Te Āpiti) is a steep-sided gorge formed by the Manawatū River in the North Island of New Zealand. At 6 km (3.7 mi) long, the Manawatū Gorge divides the Ruahine and Tararua Ranges, linking the Manawatū and Tararua Districts.
Danger Ahead – New Zealand Railway Accidents in the Modern Era. Sydney and Wellington: IPL Publishing Group. ISBN 0-908876-74-2. Heine, Richard W. (2000). Semaphore to CTC: Signalling and train working in New Zealand, 1863-1993. Wellington: New Zealand Railway & Locomotive Society. ISBN 0-908573-76-6. Hoy, D G (1970). Rails out of the Capital ...
Construction of a bypass of Bell Block, a satellite town of New Plymouth, was completed in 2010. The bypass is a four-lane, divided expressway with an interchange at Henwood Road providing access to Bell Block. [23] In 2016, a section of SH 3 in Taranaki was realigned replacing the "deadly" Normanby overbridge. [24]
This road is heavily trafficked in the event of the closure of the Manawatū Gorge due to slips. State Highway 57 between Aokautere and Ashhurst is then used to take traffic from State Highway 3 to the Pahiatua Track. From Aokautere, the highway proceeds straight on the southern banks of the Manawatu River to the western end of the Manawatū Gorge.
A woman in Indiana is facing charges including reckless homicide after reportedly killing her 25-year-old sister and a 6-year-old girl during a car crash when she was driving at over 100 mph. On ...
Darren Edwards knows a lot about hopelessness; one minute, he was rock climbing in North Wales about to finish his route, and the next, he was in the hospital paralyzed from the chest down with a ...
A bus accident in India’s northern state of Uttarakhand claimed 36 lives after a passenger bus fell into a 150m-deep gorge. The accident occurred around 8.25am on Monday at Marchula, roughly ...