Ferrymead Heritage Park
Edwardian-style heritage township with trams and steam trains on the site of an early railway wharf.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Ferrymead Heritage Park in Christchurch starts on an ordinary December evening in twenty twenty-four, when the volunteer-run park's old work truck became the centre of a very modern crime. It reaches back to the same date in eighteen sixty-three and New Zealand's first public railway, which once ended at a wharf here. Best heard walking the tram tracks along the township's main street.
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