‘Joseph Bodnar on the loop line at Ashhurst Station, 1974 – 1986, during one of his daily track inspection trips between the Longburn and Pohangina Railway Bridges. Joseph and family lived in one of the Whakarongo Railway houses between 1963 and 1966’. See ‘A Time of Transition’, by Val Burr, page 18. See Also: Ian Matheson City Archive Research File A175/ 31