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Conns Creek Branch
The Conns Creek Branch was a short branch line railway in the West Coast region of New Zealand's South Island. It diverged from the Seddonville Branch in Waimangaroa and followed the Waimangaroa River to its terminus at the foot of the Denniston Incline. The line operated from 1877 until 1967 and existed for the express purpose of conveying coal from mine to port.
== Construction ==
The branch was originally built to serve private coal mining interests, as coal had been discovered in the Papahaua Range in the 1860s. The Seddonville Branch was under construction in the mid-1870s, and the Wellington Coal Mining Company called for tenders for a private line from a junction in Waimangaroa in September 1875. The Seddonville Branch was completed to Waimangaroa on 5 August 1876 and the first 1.5 km of the Conns Creek Branch subsequently opened in 1877. The Wellington Coal Mining Company's mine was unsuccessful, but a series of inclines were built to convey coal from the Koramui mine, at an altitude of 750 m, to the railway on the coastal plain.〔Geoffrey B. Churchman and Tony Hurst, ''The Railways of New Zealand: A Journey Through History'' (Auckland: HarperCollins, 1991), 196.〕
In 1878, additional coal deposits were found and the Westport Colliery Company was formed to exploit them. Tenders were called to extend the railway by a kilometre and build the Denniston Incline, with tenders closing on 30 April 1878. The railway terminated at a yard by Conns Creek at the foot of the Incline, and both opened together in either late 1878 or early 1879.〔David Leitch and Brian Scott, ''Exploring New Zealand's Ghost Railways'', revised edition (Wellington: Grantham House, 1998 ()), 54.〕
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