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Kōrero: Hawke’s Bay region

Railway line through Hastings, 1976

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Railway line through Hastings, 1976

A railway line has run through the centre of Hastings since 1874. The line carried both freight and passenger services until 2001, when the Bay Express was cancelled.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, Whites Aviation Collection

Reference: WA-73518

by Leo Lemuel White

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

Kerryn Pollock, Hawke’s Bay region – Transport and infrastructure, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/23924/railway-line-through-hastings-1976 (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Kerryn Pollock, i tāngia i te 22 January 2010, updated 1 July 2015.