The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 9, Issue 9 (December 1, 1934)
Over the Range
Over the Range.
Back to the railway, there is that triumph of railway making, the transalpine road across to Canterbury, up the rata bordered Otira Gorge and by way of Arthur's Pass, with its five and a quarter mile tunnel; then down the eastern slants into the great pastoral downs of Canterbury and on to the farstretching farming plains; Timaru, Oamaru, and finally Dunedin.