Greymouth

Sadly no trains through here at present due to the recent fires taking out bridges between here and Christchurch.

Now just a memory of times past. During the 1988 flood the signalman was stranded in here with nothing more than a cup of tea.

Looking along the flood protection wall out to the old wharf and open sea.

A recent memorial to all the 398 miners who have lost their lives in mining disasters on the West Coast, from the Brunner mine in the 1896 to the recent Pike River disaster in 2010. The granite ring around the miners revolves through a water trough.

The clock tower is built above the high water flood line.

More memories of West Coast mining.

Dredge buckets from an old dredger used to keeping the harbour open.

Old coal wagons of which there used to be hundreds bringing coal to the wharf.

Beautiful historic mural about the West Coast, it’s disasters and personalities.

This one says it all about the West Coast.