Story: Southland places

Roadside Stories: Lumsden, steaming ahead

Steam shaped the town of Lumsden, which grew from the late 1870s at a railway junction. The Kingston Flyer train took travellers to the shores of Lake Wakatipu, from where they crossed to Queenstown or lakeside farms by steamer – most famously, the elegant TSS Earnslaw.

Listen to a Roadside Story about Lumsden and transport. Roadside Stories is a series of audio guides to places around New Zealand.

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David Grant, 'Southland places - Northern Southland', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/interactive/35361/roadside-stories-lumsden-steaming-ahead (accessed 25 April 2024)

Story by David Grant, updated 25 May 2015