The Hawke's Bay Railway by Russell Orr, card covered book of around 32 pages and printed in 1974. The contents are in pretty good condition really, in the odd spot there is some sunning, there are a few creases on the front cover. This book is full of many large photos of trains and people, all with information about when and where the pics were taken.

When Julius Vogel was Prime Minister in the early 1870's he carried out a vigorous public works policy as a means of creating prosperity and increasing the population of New Zealand. An extensive scheme of railway construction was undertaken by the general government with the approval and assistance of the provincial governments. A railway between Napier and Palmerston North was projected and surveys of alternative routes undertaken in 1870. There was a choice of 2 routes from the Port of Napier to Paki Paki (the present one) and another across the Meeanee Flats crossing the Heretaunga Plain some miles west of Hastings. From Paki Paki to Waipukurau, there was little room for argument, and it seems incredible that there could have been an alternative route to the present one, yet trial surveys of 3 separate routes were made.

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