Kaitangata #2

 In a previous post I shared a similar mural named "Kaitangata" - this one is also another version of the same. I'm not 100% but I suspect it was painted by local artist Mark Haldane. It represents the old historical train which is now located at the Greymouth Shanty Town and tells a history of the town's coal mining.

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Kaitangata

This colourful mural is located on the side of a building in Greymouth's CBD. In Otago1862 mining began and the coal mill first opened. Unfortunately in 1879 a mineshaft exploded and sadly killed 34 miners. The F-class steam train of the same name that was once used in Kaitangata is now located in the local Shantytown tourism attraction after they bought it in 1971. 

Linking up with Mural Monday