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The Bluff Branch, officially the Bluff Line since 2011, [1] is a railway line in Southland, New Zealand that links Invercargill with the port of Bluff. One of the first railways in New Zealand, it opened on 5 February 1867 and is still operating. [2] Presently, it essentially functions as an elongated industrial siding. [3]
Picton ferry terminal Bluff: Blenheim, KaikÅura, Christchurch, Ashburton, Timaru, Oamaru, Dunedin, Balclutha, Gore, Invercargill: 940.7 SH 1S is used in official documentation, SH 1 on maps and signs. The Interislander ferry connects State Highway 1N and State Highway 1S between Wellington and Picton. SH 1 at Blenheim: SH 1 at Invercargill
Bluff Harbour is the northern terminus of the Stewart Island ferry, providing a daily service to and from Oban. The ferry journey across Foveaux Strait is about 39 km (21 nmi) long. [3] The first scheduled service across Foveaux Strait began in 1877 for weekly mail delivery, but soon also carried passengers and general cargo. [4]
The Bluff area was one of the earliest areas of New Zealand where a European presence became established. The first ship known to have entered the harbour was the Perseverance in 1813, in search of flax trading possibilities, with the first European settlers arriving in 1823 or 1824.
State Highway 6 (SH 6) is a major New Zealand state highway.It extends from the Marlborough region in the northeastern corner of the South Island across the top of the island, then down the length of the island, initially along the West Coast and then across the Southern Alps through inland Otago and finally across the Southland Plains to the island's south coast.
Later that year, two more lines opened, one to North Invercargill and one to South Invercargill; the latter was the southernmost electrified street tram line in the world and ran to Tramway Road. [8] In practice, the network operated as two routes: Route A between Georgetown and Waikiwi and Route B between North and South Invercargill. [9]
Tiwai Point lies at the entrance to Bluff Harbour on the southern coast of the South Island of New Zealand. A spit which extends from the western end of the Awarua Plain , it lies between Awarua Bay to the north and Foveaux Strait to the south.
A good example of how regionalised this traffic was comes from the Dunedin-Invercargill portion of the line. North of Clinton were five branches whose traffic essentially ran to and from Dunedin/Port Chalmers, while south of Clinton were four branches whose traffic essentially ran to or from Invercargill/Bluff. As this short-distance local ...