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Kōrero: Canterbury places

Train at Springfield

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Train at Springfield

Springfield railway station is the last stop for West Coast-bound trains before they begin their journey across the Southern Alps. Springfield was blanketed in snow when this steam train stopped for refreshments in the winter of 1931.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, John Dobrée Pascoe Collection (PAColl-0783)

Reference: PA1-o-406-108-2

by John Dobrée Pascoe

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

John Wilson, Canterbury places – Darfield district, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/10258/train-at-springfield (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā John Wilson, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009, updated 17 August 2015.