Much of the gold in the Thames area lay in quartz veins below sea level. Large pumps were needed to …
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Built in 1928, the Manganuku Bridge is one of the few remaining Howe truss bridges in New Zealand. Located in …
The Waitāwheta Gorge Tramway was constructed in 1909-1910 to enable the extraction of kauri from the Kaimai Mamaku Forest in …
The Bankside Fuel Depot located between Dunsandel and Rakaia, on the Canterbury Plains, was built in 1942 as part of …
The dramatic collapse of the Rangitīkei River Bridge at Bulls in 1973 led to a better understanding of scouring in …
Built in 1867, Ross Creek is one of New Zealand’s first major urban water supplies, and one that still serves …
Opened in 1978, the Kaimai tunnel provides an important rail link between the Waikato and the Port of Tauranga.
The Rotowaro Carbonisation Plant, south-west of Huntly, opened in 1931. The plant took slack coal waste from the Waikato coalfield …
Sky Tower is an iconic structure that, since its official opening in March 1997, has come to define Auckland’s skyline. …
The William C Daldy is a coal-fired steam tug. It was built for the Auckland Harbour Board in 1935 and …
The Martha Hill Mine at Waihī, is New Zealand’s richest gold mine. Between 1879 and its closure in 1952 it …
This piece is an excerpt from Take Me With You Too! A Self-Drive Guide to Dunedin’s Engineering Heritage, the second …
Awarua Radio Station was a New Zealand Post & Telegraph Department communications station located on the Southland plains between Invercargill …
Awanui Radio Station was a New Zealand Post & Telegraph Department communications station located just north of Kaitaia in Northland. …
Coupled in Motion Train Weighing (CIMTW) is a system that allows railway operators to weigh trains on the move. It …
