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Denniston Incline, Westcoast, NZ
Last Updated June 2002.
Denniston Incline, Westcoast, NZ.
"The eighth wonder of the world!"
From 1878 to 1884 Robert Austen Young and brother Henry William Young, worked together as the firm Young Bros. Working for the Westport Coal Company they were the engineers of the Denniston Incline and the branch railway and sidings from Waimangaroa to the foot of the incline.
At this stage I'm not yet ready to complete a narrative on the Denniston
Incline. I can, however, say that this desolate place must have had a
lot of coal to make up for the hardship, isolation and weather.
In the meantime more information can be found at the "Friends of the Hill" website.
Above, Denniston Township circa 1910
Below, Denniston Township, December 1999.
Below, the view from the top of the incline down to the sea, December 1999.
Sources yet to be reviewed.
The Hill - the Story of Denniston, by Ceclia Adams. J W Baty Ltd,
Christchurch. 1971
Silk Amidst the Clouds, by Beatrice June Fayen. Buller Printing
Ltd, Westport. 1994.
Coaling from the Clouds, by RJ Meyer. NZ Railway and Locomotive
Society, Wellington. 1971.
A History of Denniston, by WA Munro. Denniston High School and
Waimangaroa Centennial Committee, 1980..
The Hill in the '80s. Published in the Westport Times and Star
during 1930.
Good Times at the Face. The Westport News, January 1958
Farewell to a Ghost Village, Weekly News, April 1956
The Face's History. The Grey River Argus, June 1958
The Story of Burnetts Face. A series in the Westport News, January
1958