More Info →Some members of the Shannon Variety Players at Shannon Railway Station, 1986

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Some members of the Shannon Variety Players at Shannon Railway Station, 1986 1 Colour photo print

Left to Right - Pam Locke (obscured), Colin Collecutt, Lynne Collecutt, John Allan, Noeline Allan, Hillary Allan, Justin Allan (wearing tartan sash), David Locke.

Members are in period costume as part of celebrations for the re-enactment of the “Driving of the Last Spike Ceremony” at Otaihanga (as occurred 100 years earlier to complete the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company’s line) and the “first through train” which ran on 29 November 1886.

This re-enactment took place on 26 October 1986 beside the railway line in the car park at Southward’s Car Museum, where a symbolic section of track had been laid.

See also #s2002.082.0010a & b colour photos of some of these people in costume at same event.

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