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Imagine getting to your job in coal wagons from the Ngakawau settlement through dense bush, on a narrow railway track to a coal mine in the middle of nowhere. The Charming Creek Walkway (NORTH) follows the abandoned railway giving visitors a taste of hardy souls who worked in this remote West Coast region. 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