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The Stockton mine railway was, in 1908, New Zealand’s first electric railway. It carried coal from the Westport-Stockton Coal Companies mine to the NZR railhead at Ngakawau on the West Coast of the South Island from 1908 to 1953, when it was replaced by an aerial cableway. The line was 10.5 km long, with 2.4 km in two long tunnels.
Stockton is a former settlement in the northwestern South Island of New Zealand in the West Coast region. [1] It is located in the Papahaua Ranges about 30 kilometres linear distance north east from Westport. Stockton is best known for the Stockton Mine operated by Solid Energy. This mine had the first electric railway in New Zealand, from 1908 ...
The Millerton football (soccer) club, known as the Millerton All Blacks, [3] were twice runners-up in the Chatham Cup, New Zealand's knockout football competition, in 1932 and 1933. [ 4 ] Millerton had its own Lodge of the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes (Lookout Lodge No 127 of the R.A.O.B. NZ Constitution of the Grand Lodge of England).
The Denniston-Stockton Plateau stretches approximately 18 kilometres (11 mi), from Mt Rochfort near Westport in the south to Granity in the north. It is about 3–4 kilometres (1.9–2.5 mi) wide, and 600–800 metres (2,000–2,600 ft) above sea level, lower at its northern ( Millerton ) and southern ( Denniston ) extents, and highest in the ...
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The mine would be the second largest opencast coal mine in New Zealand after Solid Energy's Stockton Mine on the Stockton Plateau. [3] Environmental groups such as Forest and Bird and the West Coast Environment Network opposed the project. Mining started in late 2014. [4]
The first game of 2025 will happen in Atlanta as a former Big 12 team in its first year in the SEC will meet a former Pac-12 team in its first year in the Big 12.
The incident happened on Sunday, Dec. 22, 2024, at the Riviera Motel in Kissimmee, Florida according to the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office