Railway bridges

Date: 1883

From: Hunter, Norman Mitchell b 1859 :[Sketches of New Zealand. 1882-1883]

Reference: E-328-f-122-1

Description: Shows a bridge on the Blue Mountains and a view of the Emu Plains Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Bridge on the first zigzag of Western Railway on Blue Mountains - Emu Plains. Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 135 x 200 mm

Date: 1886

By: New Zealand. Public Works Department

Reference: Plans-80-0682

Description: Part of the Napier / Palmerston North Railway showing the Manawatu River, small creek, bush, reserve and Main Road Stamped: Public Works. Engineers Department. New Zealand. John Blackett. Engineer in chief. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing

Date: [ca 1950s-1960s]

From: Bailey, Margaret (Dr), 1945-: Collection of Margaret and John Bailey

Reference: PA12-7810

Description: Transparency slides of various locations, taken ca 1950s-1960s by John Bailey Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies slides.

Date: [Between 1927 and 1955]

From: Salmon, J T :Albums, album pages and loose prints

By: Salmon, John Tenison, 1910-1999

Reference: PA1-q-206

Description: Photographs taken by John Tenison Salmon between 1927 and 1955, mostly in the Wellington Region. Some are art photographs, including still life images of carvings, cloisonne ware and porcelain, and some are tinted. One sequence shows the Dominion Museum and Art Gallery, both interior and exterior views. Some were taken in April 1936 before the building was furnished; others were taken later in 1936 and 1937, including the Kauri Hall, the Sculpture Hall, the Art Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery, the Academy Gallery, the Maori Hall, and the entrance vestibule. Civic events are shown in illuminations at the Government Buildings for the King George V Silver Jubilee on 12th May 1935; the Carillon tower floodlit for for the coronation of King George VI; and night photographs of the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition in 1940, including the Australian and British pavilions. Wellington is shown in views from various hills and rooftops. Specific trips and occasions include a Waikaremoana trip in 1930; the Victoria University College Natural History Society trip to Butterfly Creek in 1933; a Camera Club outing near Mangaroa Hill in 1938; and celebrating Xmas in Auckland in 1952. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover, Super-Cobra binder file; 30 x 24 cm

Date: 1885

From: Dillberg, Gustaf, 1858-1934 :[New Zealand sketchbook. 1879-1887]

Reference: E-085-037

Description: Two drawings on one page. In the top right corner is a pencil drawing showing the esplanade at Napier, with details of wharves at the port. In the bottom half is a watercolour of a train crossing a broad river. It has been crudely coloured in. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour, 178 x 254 mm (page size).

Date: [Circa 1932]

By: Searle, Roland James, 1904-1984

Reference: PA1-f-131

Description: Album of photographs chiefly taken by Roland James Searle, circa 1930s. The first subject is the opening of the Wellington Citizens' War Memorial (Cenotaph), and includes a programme of the dedication and handing over on Sunday 17th April, 1932 (p 001-012). That is followed by the consecration ceremony for the National War Memorial and War Memorial Carillon (again with a copy of the programme), held on Anzac Day, April 25th, 1932 (p 015-023). Pages 029-033 show the arrival of the Wellington Jubilee Dock in 1931, the floating dock which was towed from England by two Dutch tugboats. The next sequence is entitled "The Express pulls out - Thorndon", and follows the Express to Wanganui where views show a river-boat trip up the Whanganui River (p 037-056), and include a map of historical areas on the river compiled by Annabell & Marchant, surveyors of Wanganui (p 055). The train trip is continued in the next section, and includes an illustrated diagram of the Raurimu Spiral, then arrival at the new Beach Road Auckland Railway Station. Photographs of Auckland include the Auckland Institute and Museum, Auckland University, Grafton Bridge, a sailing ship at the wharves, and the Auckland Zoo. Further North there are scenes of ploughing, a mine entrance, rock formations at Waro, and the Taheke Falls; before travelling to Rotorua and the surrounding thermal regions. A number of images were taken at Whakarewarewa, including photos of Paul Thomas and his wife, along with scenes showing women washing clothes in hot pools, a woman with a baby on her back holding a rope with a food basket cooking in the pool, children in a hot pool, and men at work carving. Paul Thomas wrote to thank Searle for sending him copies of photographs (p 101, written on May 1st 1932). Later photographs again with the train often in view show timber felling and milling, and views of the Arapuni hydroelectic power station. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with textured grey cloth cover, entitled "Snapshots"; 28.5 x 39.0 cm

Date: [ca 1889]

Reference: PA4-0640

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of a train travelling over a bridge (Jacob' Ladder), in the United States, taken by B W Kilburn, ca 1889. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Jacob's Ladder, Mt Washington Railway, USA; Verso - Photographed and published by B W Kilburn.... Littleton N.H. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

Date: 1914 - 1918

From: Cochran, Hector Roy, fl 1900-1970s :Nomad; a New Zealand footslogger's Grand tour, 1916-1919.

Reference: E-317-q-008-2

Description: Shows a railway bridge across the Selle River. Also shows a building with a spire in the background. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopy of drawing, 78 x 152 mm on page 325 x 260 mm

By: Kilburn Brothers (Firm)

Reference: PA4-0563A

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of Frankenstein Trestle and train, White Mountains [America], taken by Kilburn Brothers. Inscriptions: mat verso - Photgraphed and published by Kilburn Brothers Littleton N H; Mat recto - beneath image - 722. Frankenstein Trestle and train, P & O. R R. Crawford Nothch, White Mts. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

Date: Between 1915 and 1926

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Sherriff, D J, active 1901-1931

Reference: PA1-q-102

Description: Album of photographs chiefly taken by Albert Percy Godber, relating to his family, his work and his interests. Family photographs include portraits of his wife (Laura) and two children (William and Phyllis), and scenes of their home in Whiteman's Valley Road, Silverstream; views of the Hutt Valley including large numbers of cars travelling to Trentham Racecourse, and the Hutt River. Another group of images relate to a holiday at the Mendip Hills Homestead in Canterbury, with scenes of farm life, including haymaking, merino sheep, and farm buildings. During their stay in the South Island Godber also took photographs of Dunedin (including the Ross Reservoir, Otago Boys' High School, Seacliff Mental Hospital, the 1926 Dunedin Exhibition, and the Hillside Railway Workshops); Invercargill (including the Invercargill Railway Workshops); Stewart Island, Moeraki, Tuatapere, Waiau River, Oamaru and Port Chalmers. Various railway stations in Canterbury and Otago, the Burnside Iron Mills, and the Rosslyn Mills. Godber was a volunteer fireman with the Petone Fire Brigade with the album including views of the building, groups of firemen, fire engines and other fire fighting equipment, and a building in Petone damaged by fire. In his work with New Zealand Railways, mainly at the Petone Railway Workshops, he took interior photographs of various buildings, including the Machine Shop and finishing benches, the engine room, lathes, boilers, and fitting shops. He also took photographs of many of the steam engines that were built and worked on at the workshops. One scene shows a group of men watching a fight. Many images show his interest in logging railways, particularly in the Piha, Karekare, Anawhata area. Scenes of logging camps, various methods of transporting logs including bullock teams, logging trains, and dams created and then tripped to send logs down by river, and timber mills. Other topics covered in Godber's photographs are scenes at Maori marae and meeting houses, with some of the people identified; Maori carving and rafter designs; beekeeping, and gold mining. Other Titles - Title printed on spine - Godber album 109 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown buckram cover; 38.0 x 26.5 cm (257 p.)

Date: 1890 - 1900

Reference: MapColl-834.5292gmbj/[189-?]/Acc.53735

Description: Plans of a railway bridge over an unnamed hill and river in Dunedin, 3 separate drawings of Elevation, Section and Plan. Annotations. Title supplied by cataloguer, 3 different plans, Elevation, [Cross] section. Plan of the the railway tracks, unnamed river with low water level and assumed flood level. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Pen, ink and pencil on linen, coloured, annotations, scale indeterminable, 40.7 x 59cm. Provenance: Purcahse from Haywards April 2011

Date: 1883

From: Hunter, Norman Mitchell b 1859 :[Sketches of New Zealand. 1882-1883]

Reference: E-328-f-132-1

Description: A railway bridge in Victoria, Australia Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - `Horse Shoe Bridge' - Brighton - Main Line Railway Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 95 x 155 mm

Date: ca October 1918-ca July 1919

From: Field-Dodgson, Ernest Robert, 1926-1999 :World War I photograph albums compiled by trooper C L Crowley

Reference: PA1-o-170

Description: Photo album, World War I, ex late trooper Crowley, C. L. Canterbury Mounted Rifles (34th Reinforcements). Images taken in Jordan, Palestine, Egypt, and Turkey. One group relates to the Gallipoli Peninsula. Photographer possibly Crowley himself. The images in this album were probably taken at the very end of the war in the Middle East, and reflect what happened after the Armistice with Turkey on the 31st of October 1918. The Gallipoli episode in the album relates to the Canterbury Mounted Rifles, and the 2nd and 7th Australian Light Horse Brigades leaving Kantara on the 27th of November 1918 for the Gallipoli Peninsula. The purpose of this was to take part in the Allied occupation of the Dardanelles and Constantinople and specifically to see that Turkey was carrying out its commitments under the terms of the Armistice in the southern part of the Gallipoli Peninsula. They did not take their horses on this operation. During this tour of duty most of the troops took leave in Constantinople. They returned to Egypt in January 1919, by which time the New Zealand Mounted Rifles had were encamped at Rafa. They rejoined the rest of the Brigade at Rafa on the 23rd of January 1919. They remained in Egypt to help control civil disturbances, so that the New Zealand Mounted Rifles were not disbanded until June 1919, and the soldiers began their journey home that month and in July. (Info from "The New Zealanders in Sinai and Palestine," Lieutenant-Colonel C Guy Powles, Whitcome and Tombs, 1922, chapter X1X; "The History of The Canterbury Mounted Rifles 1914-1919, Edited by Colonel C Guy Powles, Whitcome and Tombs, 1928, chapter X1X). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Dark blue suede album, entitled Photographs, 21 x 27 cm

Date: [1900-1902]

From: Zachariah (Zak), Joseph 1863-1965 :Photographs

By: Underwood & Underwood (Firm)

Reference: PA4-0439

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of the Royal Engineers building a temporary Railway Bridge beside that destroyed by the Boers in South Africa. Photograph taken by Underwood & Underwood ca 1900. Inscriptions: Mat recto - left of image - Underwood & Underwood. New York. London. Toronto-Canada, Ottawa-Kansas.; Mat recto - beneath image - Royal Engineers building temporary Railway Bridge beside that destroyed by the retreating Boers, Rhenster River, S.S. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

Date: 1901

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-039036-G

Description: A workman and a dog are seated in the doorway of a temporary workshop, set up for work on the Mangaonoho railway bridge in 1901. Photographed by Albert Percy Godber in 1901. Location and date from Godber's own index which is filed at TL 6/1/15 in Photographic Archives (in index under "W. Workshop. Mangaonoho. 1901. For Main Trunk bridge") Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.25 x 3.25 inches

Date: 1960 - 1965

By: New Zealand Railways

Reference: Eph-A-RAIL-1960/1965

Description: Includes: 1960s: The Express; the news magazine of the NZ Railway and Locomotive Society Inc. Subscription application form [1960s?] NZR Rail-Air Goods label (2 copies) Rail ticket for 1 trip between Taita to Naenae or Manor Park [1960s?] 1960: New Zealand Railways luggage label 1960 New Longburn railway bridge and deviation. Opening ceremony by the Hon Michael Moohan, Minister of Railways. Tuesday, 18 October 1960. Souvenir programme The Scenic Daylight; fast diesel-hauled express trains, Auckland-Wellington, Wellington-Auckland, Summer 1960-61. Timetable 1961: North Island Main Trunk Railway. Route of "The Scenic Daylight". Produced by Railways Publicity & Advertising Branch. 1961 New Zealand Railways. Trolley Driver's licence. The bearer, Temporary Surfaceman Dennis Peter Keogh ... is licensed to drive a trolley of the following type: 1. Hand-operated trolley; 2. Motor-trolley. Date of issue 1st March 1961. New Zealand Railways. Publicity & Advertising Branch. Electric railway traction in New Zealand. October 1961 Railcar services Palmerston North - Woodville - Masterton - Wellington. [Timetable flier]. 1961 New Zealand Railways. Publicity & Advertising Branch. The spiral at Raurimu. June 1961. Pamphlet. 1962: Return ticket Frankton-Matamata, 2 February 1962 The Scenic Daylight. Timetable 1962-1963 1963: Centenary of New Zealand Railways. Unveiling of commemorative plaque at Christchurch Railway Station, by the Hon J K McAlpine, Minister of Railways. Saturday, 30 November 1963. Programme Government Railways Welfare Society. Welfare is in your hands. R E Owen, Government Printer, Wellington, New Zealand, 1963. New Zealand Railways. Publicity & Advertising Branch. 100 years of progress, 1863-1963. R E Owen, Government Printer, Wellington, New Zealand, 1963. New Zealand's first train, December 1, 1863. 1964: New Zealand Railways. Publicity & Advertising Branch. Drive inter-island by the Rail-road ferry "Aramoana". Produced by Railways Publicity & Advertising Branch, 1964 (2 copies) New Zealand Railway and Locomotive Society Inc. Canterbury provincial railways; genesis of the N.Z.R. system, by W A Pierre. 1964. Order form. Typescript sheet - amendment to rules of Railway Welfare Board. 11 February 1964 1965: NZ Railway & Locomotive Society. Memories of the 1880s. [Postcard of the "F" class locomotive 'Meg Merrilies'] New Zealand Railways principal rail, road and ferry services. Timetables, North Island, on and after 6 December 1965 (2 copies) North Island Main Trunk Railway. R E Owen Government Printer, 1965. 20,000/9/65 - 10634D Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, sizes varying under 250 mm Provenance: Some items donated by Owen Spearpoint from the estate of Brian Edward Spearpoint, 2014.

Date: 1861 - 1869

From: Richmond, Christopher William, 1821-1895 :Sketch book ; sketches numbered 1 to 74 [i.e. 95] / [by] C W Richmond.

Reference: E-284-001

Description: A railway bridge across an unidentified Central Otago river Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 120 x 137 mm

Date: [ca 1960s-1970s]

From: New Zealand Centre for Photography :Photographs

By: Hoy, Douglas George, 1937-1992

Reference: PAColl-9528-1

Description: Photographs of railway scenes taken by Douglas George Hoy Accompanying material - Negative index Quantity: 75 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [Between 1873 and 1880]

By: Deveril, Herbert, 1840-1911

Reference: PA7-45-14

Description: Photograph of Parnell, Auckland probably taken in the 1870s by Herbert Deveril of Wellington. Another print of this image is at PA7-45-15. Inscriptions: Mount verso - centre - Parnell, Auckland Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 230 x 358 mm mounted on paper 235 x 365 mm

Date: Circa 1920s

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-039129-G

Description: View of a bush-clad valley with a railway bridge across a river with a railway tunnel to the right. On the far right a train is coming towards the camera, and there is a narrow winding road between the railway line and the river. Location unidentified. Photographed by Albert Percy Godber, circa 1920s. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.25 x 3.25 inches