A crowd gathers to celebrate the opening of the Ōtira railway tunnel on 4 August 1923. At the time the 8.5-km tunnel, which completed the important transalpine rail link between Christchurch and Greymouth, was the longest outside the Alps and the seventh-longest in the world.
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'Ōtira tunnel opening', URL: https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/photo/otira-tunnel-opening, (Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated 4-Aug-2021
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