Tag : Arthur’s Pass

Project

Mountainous moves

Gill Prentice
Transporting massive concrete bridge beams over the precipitous Arthur’s Pass during the past winter has been a challenging project – and an eye-catching one too,...
Heritage NZ

Heritage NZ: The Otira rail tunnel

Contrafed PUblishing
From its opening in 1923 the Otira rail tunnel has ranked as an extraordinary feat of engineering. HUGH DE LACY tells its story. It was...
Feature

Heritage Trail to Arthur’s Pass

Vijay Naidu
Of all the mountain roads in New Zealand, none matches Arthur’s Pass for the complexity of its engineering. HUGH DE LACY finds out why. A...