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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Canterbury Provincial District]

Addington Station

Addington Station.

The Addington Junction Railway Station is an important stopping place on the north and south lines of the Government railways, and above thirty trains pass up and down daily. The station buildings are of wood, and contain booking and public offices, ticket lobby, ladies' waiting-room, and porters'-room. There are two large asphalt platforms and two passenger bridges, crossing respectively the north and south lines. The traffic at the junction is regulated from a large signal box situated at one end of the southern platform. A very considerable amount of traffic is conducted at this station, there being no less than eight private sidings communicating with flour mills, seed cleaning establishments, and one of the largest butter factories in the Colony. In addition there are the weekly arrivals and departures of stock for the Addington sale yards, which are very numerous.

Mr. James Frame. Stationmaster at Addington Junction Railway Station, is a native of Lanark, Scotland, where he was born in 1844. He was educated at the local grammar school, and came out to Lyttelton in 1860 in the ship “Clontarf.” Since then he has been a resident of Canterbury, with the exception of a short time spent in Otago at the time of the Gabriel's Gully “rush.” Mr. Frame joined the railway under the Provincial Government in 1872 as a shunter at Christchurch, worked his way through the various grades of the service, and gained rapid promotion, becoming stationmaster at Lincoln in 1874. On his removal to Southbridge, four years later, be was presented by the inhabitants with a handsome gold hunting-watch suitably inscribed. He remained at Southbridge for sixteen years, and was transferred to Addington in 1894. As a member of the Craft, he joined Lodge Progress at Southbridge, and is a past master. In the Druids' Order, he became First Arch-Druid of Lodge Old Oaks in Southbridge. Mr. Frame was married in 1863 to a daughter of Mr. A. MeInnes, of Iona, Argyleshire, Scotland, and has two sons and three daughters.