The first railway opens in New Zealand,…

February 1862 CE

The first railway opens in New Zealand, by the Dun Mountain Copper Mining Company, on February 2, 1862.

Thirty-eight hundred and forty-three tons of chrome ore will be extracted and carried down Dun Mountain to Nelson by the railway in this year.

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