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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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Alexander Turnbull Library
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