Learn more about Denniston
IPENZ Engineers New Zealand have some information about the incline on their website.
IPENZ Engineers New Zealand website
Friends of the Hill run an excellent museum with photos, static displays and other information in the old School building at Denniston.
Friends of the Hill website
Coaltown, the museum in Westport, also has some good displays including a replica section of incline complete with a coal wagon. Phone: 03 789 8204.
Further reading
There are a range of publications that provide a wealth of extra information about Denniston:
![House of coal miner Thomas Donaldson, and group outside, Denniston Hill, West Coast, [ca 1920]. Reference Number: 1/2-022938-F. Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.](/upload/62960/family-outside-hut-223.jpg)
House of coal miner Thomas Donaldson, and
group outside, Denniston Hill, West Coast,
[ca 1920]
Munro, WA. (1951) The Denniston Affair (published by the author).
Prebble, Bill. (2008) Denniston's Incline: coal from the clouds (New Zealand Railway and Locomotive Society).
Richardson, Len. (1995) Coal, Class & Community: the united mineworkers union of New Zealand,1880-1960 (Auckland University Press).
Wright, L. (1998) Denniston, Then and Now (Friends of the Hill).
Fiction:
There are several fictional accounts of Denniston which are very evocative of 'life on the hill':
Pattrick, Jenny. (2003) The Denniston Rose (Black Swan).
Price, Felicity. (2001) Dancing in the Wilderness (Hazard Press).