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Lumsden, steaming ahead

Published: Aug. 30, 2011, 5 a.m.

Steam shaped the town of Lumsden, which boomed from the late 1870s as a major railway junction. The Kingston Flyer train took travellers to the shores of Lake Wakatipu, where they crossed the lake to Queenstown or to lakeside farms by steamer - most famously the elegant SS Earnslaw.