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Wednesday, 4 June 2025

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    Photo: Bill Cowan
    Photo: Bill Cowan
    Waipahi School children board the Tapanui branch train for a trip to Heriot and return in March, 1973. 

    These children may have been some of the last passengers on the branch because floods closed the line in October 1978.

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