Single Track - The Construction of the Main Trunk Railway

Collins, 1978. Spine of dustwrapper faded. Small tears to dustwrapper.

The completion of the Main Trunk Railway to the centre of the North Island was one of the boldest and most difficult surveying and construction ventures ever undertaken in New Zealand. In the first complete book ever to be published on this remarkable feat of engineering R. S. Fletcher traces not only the extraordinary acts of courage and endurance on the part of surveyors and construction gangs when working through the rugged, mountainous terrain, but the complex political manoeuvrings in Wellington and in Auckland, and the delicate negotiations with Maori tribes whose ancestral lands were traversed.