| Westport is in the centre of the coal mining area of South Island. A small
museum has several interesting exhibits as well as a replica mine shaft. Dimly lit,
support timbers dusted with coal, tracks on the floor and carts filled with coal, the mine
shaft is quite realistic. Other exhibits show and explain the steep
icline at Denniston. An incline has 2 tracks laid up a hill where the coal mine is. Coal
wagons are filled at the top and descend controlled by wire rope to the bottom of the hill
pulling up an empty wagon at the same time. Additional power is not required, except to
control a brake drum at the top preventing the wagons from plunging down uncontrolled. |
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