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Nelson - Blenheim notional railway
The Nelson - Blenheim notional railway (1957 - 1979) was part of the political management of the backlash from the New Zealand Railways Department's closure of the isolated Nelson Section, which ended hopes for a southern connection of Nelson to the rest of the South Island railway network.
== Background ==
The Nelson Section was an isolated, 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) gauge, government-owned railway line running south from Nelson to Glenhope in the Tasman district of New Zealand's South Island. Begun in 1876, it reached Glenhope, about 96 km south of Nelson, in 1912. Desultory work beyond Glenhope went on until 1931, but the Nelson section was never connected to the rest of the South Island rail network.
While the line was profitable in its early years, falling revenues and increasing costs of maintenance resulted in closure in 1955, despite protest meetings, sit-ins to stop demolition trains, and a 12,000 strong petition calling for the re-opening of the line and an investigation of an alternative link-up with the rest of the network via a line to Blenheim.〔Churchman, G. and Hurst, T., 1990, ‘The Railways of New Zealand; a Journey Through History' (2nd edition 2001), Transpress New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand, ISBN 0-908876-20-3, pps 172 -173〕
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