The first is of a perfectly civilized good shed build by good hard working craftsmen in the days of the British empire.
Then we have a collection of sheds built by various layabouts and designed by people with only a t-square for company with all the architectural merits of Te Papa
Woodville
Oamaru
ClydeNotice that the lack of a nameplate on any of the sheds, possibly due to embarusment.
However all is not lost, and here is my favorite picture of one of these buildings.
Marton
8 comments:
Interesting pic of Middllemarch goods shed. Whats with the overhang? Did they build it too wide than cut the side back to give track clearance?????
Woodville is a goodie, another that comes to mind is Onehunga
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I like clyde, gose well with matching engin shed
The Mokoia goodshed still stands, and is of concrete block construction.
The Hawera goodshed seems to be of similar design to the Clyde brick version and I wonder if they were not of the same era of replacements. (1960's?)
Having grown up as a young railfan with brick rail buildings everywhere, I too am quite interested in the likes of the Marton and Taihape sheds..
Drew
In fact, looking at that Clyde picture, I would say that and the Hawera shed or off the same blueprints...
Drew
Middlemarch shed may have been moved from somewhere else where the clearances were wider and then cut done to fit.
You'll be able to snap a shot of Mokoia next time your rumbling past, Drew??
clyde was 1980
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