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翻訳と辞書　辞書検索 [ 開発暫定版 ] スポンサード リンク Waimea Plains Railway ： ウィキペディア英語版 Waimea Plains Railway The Waimea Plains Railway was a secondary railway line (not a branch line) that linked the towns of Lumsden and Gore in northern Southland, New Zealand. It skirted the Hokonui Hills, and operated as a through route between 31 July 1880 and 1 April 1971, with the short section from Lumsden to Balfour continuing as the Balfour Branch until 15 January 1978. ==Construction== The Waimea Plains Railway was built in order to improve communication between Dunedin and the Lake Wakatipu district. At the time, construction of the Otago Central Railway had barely begun and the only other way to reach the region by rail - the most efficient form of transport in the days before modern road transport – involved a detour south via Invercargill. The Waimea Plains Railway Company was formed in 1878 in New Zealand under the District Railways Act of 1877, and began construction on 11 January 1879. The easy terrain meant construction was swift, with the last rail laid on 24 May 1880 and the official opening a couple of months later on 21 July. The Waimea Plains Railway Company was part of several companies speculating in land settlement in Southland set up by politicians including Robert Stout and William Larnach, along with the New Zealand Agricultural Company (set up in London in 1879) and then the New Zealand Land and Loan Company. By 1879 these companies were precarious financially, and the whole scheme was "little short of a scam". Bourke says that George Grey not agreeing to purchase the Waimea Plains Railway Company in 1879 was the reason for subsequent fall of the Grey ministry. This and several other private railway companies were later purchased by the new Stout-Vogel ministry. Stout’s financial affairs were covered up in 1893 by Richard Seddon, Stout’s rival in the Liberal Party, provided that Stout left politics.〔''Kelburn, King Dick and the Kelly Gang: Richard Seddon and Political Patronage'' by Kevin Bourke, pp 86-87 (2008, Hit or Miss Publishing, Wellington) ISBN 978-0-473-13450-1〕 After some disputes with the government over ownership and distribution of profits, the government acquired the line under the District Railways Act in 1886 and integrated it in the New Zealand Railways Department on 13 November 1886, according to ''New Zealand Railways Geographical Mileage Table 1957'' and the ''Encyclopaedia Of New Zealand 1966''. (David Leitch and Brian Scott give the date as 31 March in ''Exploring New Zealand's Ghost Railways'', while Geoffrey B. Churchman and Tony Hurst state 30 July in ''The Railways Of New Zealand: A Journey Through History''.) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Waimea Plains Railway」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク 翻訳と辞書 : 翻訳のためのインターネットリソース Copyright(C) kotoba.ne.jp 1997-2016. All Rights Reserved.