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Loading a railway wagon

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Loading a railway wagon

Men unload bagged carcasses from a railway wagon, about 1920. Insulated wagons for transporting frozen meat from freezing works to port were designed and built at the Addington railway workshops in Christchurch from the mid-1890s.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Sydney Charles Smith Collection (PA-Group-00242)

Reference: 1/2-045403; G

by Sydney Charles Smith

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Nancy Swarbrick, Rural services – Railways, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/18550/loading-a-railway-wagon (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Nancy Swarbrick, published 1 March 2009.