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Wednesday, May 9, 2012

On a Riversdale farm


7 comments:

Armchair Critic said...

That's beautiful, do you know what the building was used for? It is quite distinctive.

Armchair Critic said...

Thinking about it, my guess is it's a railway building. Probably from the Waimea Plains Branch, rather than the Switzers Branch.

robertguyton said...

I can only guess, without asking around, but yes, a railway building - looks like a switch house to me but whether it's beside what was track or whether it's been relocated, I couldn't tell. It looked completely out of place.I didn't want to venture closer as there were bulls bellowing and I couldn't see where they were.

Armchair Critic said...

If you shot it from the road, I can probably tell you whether it has been moved or not.

robertguyton said...

Pretty much, though I did vault the fence to get a shot of another interesting building. I'll post that when I get back home. Will you Google-map search it, or have you committed the location of all Southland switchhouses to memory?

Armchair Critic said...

Can't find it. Is it on the Balfour side of Riversdale?
Otherwise I'm guessing it has been moved.

robertguyton said...

It was on the Balfour side, maybe 2 km before Riversdale, on the left, 100 metres off the road, beside a macrocarpa hedge.