Ngahere
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Railway
The railway reached Ngahere when an extension was built from Brunner on 1 August 1889, and it was the line's terminus until a further section to Ahaura was opened on 14 February 1890. On 1 August 1910, Ngahere became a railway junction when the Blackball Branch was opened, and this branch line operated until a flood in 1966 destroyed its bridge across the Grey River. The branch was formally closed on 21 February 1966.[3] The next year, passenger trains through Ngahere on the SWL were cancelled; since this time, freight trains of coal have been the predominant traffic through Ngahere.Template:Sfn
Churches
Sacred Heart Church
Sacred Heart Church is a Catholic church in Ngahere, within the Greymouth St Patrick's parish.[4] The church was built in 1960, to replace an earlier church of the same name. Originally erected as St Patrick's in the gold-mining settlement of Notown in 1866, the kitset kauri church was relocated to Ngahere in 1922 after Notown had become a ghost town, and was relocated again to Shantytown Heritage Park after the present Sacred Heart Church was built.[5][6][7]
St Luke's
St Luke's is a small former Anglican church, opposite the Ngahere sawmill on Template:NZlSH, built in timber to plans from Ralph Tyler of Greymouth.[8] The foundation stone was laid on 21 September 1952 by the Bishop of Nelson, Percival Stephenson,[8] and the church was dedicated in 1954.[5] The church was sold in about 2010.[5]
References
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- ↑ New Zealand Railway and Tramway Atlas, fourth edition, edited by John Yonge (Essex: Quail Map Company, 1993), 22.
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Further reading
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