Railcars
Donor unknown: First rail car to Pahiatua
Date: [ca 1936-1950s]
Reference: PAColl-6829
Description: 11 scenes of crowds awaiting the arrival of the first rail car on the line at Pahiatua. They include one of the crowd on the Masterton platform; another taken from the middle of the tracks with the crowds looking towards the photographer; and another of a man addressing the crowd from the driver's compartment. A railcar of the type in the photographs was trialed in May 1936 but these images look as if they were taken later. Seven railcars were built and the one in this collection is most likely to be Maahunui with the running number 4, as part of the name is visible in 1/4-029734. The railcar had a petrol engine, a lavatory, electric light and hot air heating and was driver controlled (information from Godber album PA1-q-101 p.96). Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-029731 to 029741 Quantity: 11 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negatives
Wellington City, locomotive, railcar, and railway wagon
Date: 1963
From: Smith, Alan Eldridge, 1945- : Collection
Reference: 35mm-02059
Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising six images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative
New Zealand Railways. Publicity Branch: Modern transport; by rail car to the West Coast...
Date: 1936
From: New Zealand Railways: [Ephemera relating to railways, railway trains, rail timetables, rail travel in New Zealand. 1920-1969]
By: New Zealand Railways. Publicity Branch
Reference: Eph-B-RAIL-1936-01
Description: Front cover shows rail car driver at the controls, and the view in front. Inside are pictures of models of rail car, West Coast hotels, and a map of the road and air connections to Franz Josef and Fox Glaciers from Hokitika. Extended Title - Coulls, Somerville, Wilkie Ltd. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Pamphlet, folded in four, each section 285 x 114 mm.
Donor unknown: Scenes of trains, Hawke's Bay earthquake and a wool shed
Date: [ca 1930s-1940s]
Reference: PAColl-6848
Description: 25 images including two of what is probably earthquake damage to buildings in Hawke's Bay following the 1931 earthquake; four of a gathering at a wool shed flying the union jack (location unknown); one of the war memorial in Cathedral Square, Christchurch; one of a small wooden church without a tower or steeple (location unknown); a general view of the town where the same church is located; two of a derailment; eight of various locomotives, steam, diesel and electric, including one of a railcar sitting at Wellington Railway Station and one of an electric locomotive and carriages at Paekakariki station; one of a line of buses at a rural depot with passengers waiting; two boys and a man next to their car; a boy crouching next to a man; and a landscape (location unknown). Photographer(s) unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-029898 to 029903, 030017, 030035 to 030036, 030039, 030044 to 030050, 030997, 031000 to 031003, 031006, 031011 and 031015. Quantity: 25 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negatives
New diesel railcar at Paekakariki
Date: 25/3/55
From: The Dominion :Negatives
Reference: 1/2-145491-F
Description: Box NZ Towns No 1
Godber album 2
Date: [Chiefly between 1934 and 1947]
From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives
Reference: PA1-o-194
Description: Photographs taken by Albert Percy Godber, chiefly between 1934 and 1947, but including copies of some of his earlier photographs. Views include trips in the North and South Islands, and views of his home and family, especially in Whiteman's Valley Road and the area around Silverstream. Also various scenes of floods (Hutt River), and storm damage. Photographs associated with roads and railways include steam locomotives, tunnels, bridges and viaducts, some under construction. Among the trip photographs are views of Ngaruawahia, including King Koroki's house (opened in 1938) and the Maori Parliament House. Other views of Maori interest include meeting houses, rock paintings and wood carving. Other Titles - Title printed on spine - Godber Album 100 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with brown buckram cover; 26.0 x 33.5 cm
Trams, and railcar leaving Wellington Railway Station
Date: 1963
From: Smith, Alan Eldridge, 1945- : Collection
Reference: 35mm-02151-F
Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising five images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative
West Coast scenes and activities
Date: [1880s-1960s]
From: Quinn, Joseph, d 1998: Negatives and prints from photographic studio operated by James Ring, L A Inkster, and Joseph Quinn
Reference: PAColl-9543-30
Description: Collection comprises street scenes; shipping and shipwrecks at Greymouth and other places; HMNZS Pukaki; railway locomotives, railcars, bridges and accidents; visits of parliamentarians Peter Fraser and Sir Eruera Tirikatene, and Governor at Brunnerton coal mine; croquet; schoolboy rugby; fancy dress; opening of Catholic church building; waterfall; fires; floods; and state house. Photographs taken 1880s-1960s by James Ring and L A Inkster, Greymouth. Quantity: 23 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s).
West Coast scenes and activities
Date: [1920s-1930s]
From: Quinn, Joseph, d 1998: Negatives and prints from photographic studio operated by James Ring, L A Inkster, and Joseph Quinn
Reference: PAColl-9543-28
Description: Collection comprises parades of soldiers, WAACs, school cadets and school girls; men in rugby uniforms pulling sulkies; winners of fire brigade, rifle shooting and dancing competitions; railcars and railway accident; Springs Junction; and Mitchell's Hotel, Lake Brunner. Photographs taken 1920s-1930s by L A Inkster, Greymouth. Quantity: 23 b&w original photographic print(s).
Moffatt, Ann :Photographs in Wellington, Ranfurly and Naseby
Date: ca1920-1985
By: Moffat, Ann Margaret, active 1990-2010
Reference: PAColl-6151
Description: Two views of Naseby under snow by the Guy studio, issued as postcards by the London Bookstall, Dunedin; two views of Ranfurly in the 1920s; a view showing a Westinghouse petrol-electric railcar climbing Wadestown Hill ca 1921; one view of the house at 40 Sussex Street, Wellington (built by Charles Howard ca 1878) taken in November 1985. Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s).
Tyrell, Norman, d 1994 : Negatives
Date: 1949-1958
By: Tyrell, Norman, -1994; Hayward, Margaret Jane, 1940-
Reference: PA-Group-00367
Description: Photographs of holiday excursions and job sites taken ca 1949-1958 by railway engineer Norman Tyrell. Covers hydro-electric dams and their construction, bridges and their construction, the construction of a septic tank at Palmerston, cities, ports, Auckland Zoo, tramping and mountains and scenic New Zealand. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives in registers at F 71104 1/4 - F 71731 1/4 Photographs taken by Norman Tyrell, railway engineer, d 1994 Quantity: 627 b&w original negative(s). Processing information: Archivists notes - Originally arranged and described in 1995. Reference number changed from PAColl-4779 to PA-Group-00367 in 2009.
West Coast scenes and activities
Date: [1920s-1960s]
From: Quinn, Joseph, d 1998: Negatives and prints from photographic studio operated by James Ring, L A Inkster, and Joseph Quinn
Reference: PAColl-9543-29
Description: Collection comprises parades of soldiers; school sports day (races and novelty games); winners of fire brigade competitions; railcars, railway excursion and railway accident; organiser of croquet tournament; fancy dress; elderly men in carriage; Angus McLagan addressing miners; waterfall; trout fishing; and Rewanui railway station. Photographs taken 1920s-1960s by L A Inkster, Greymouth. Quantity: 23 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s).
Hoy, Douglas George, 1937-1992 : Photographs of railway and harbour scenes
Date: [ca 1960s-1980s]
From: New Zealand Centre for Photography :Photographs
By: Hoy, Douglas George, 1937-1992
Reference: PAColl-9528-2
Description: Photographs of railway scenes taken by Douglas George Hoy. Includes photographs of Wellington Harbour Board buildings and vessels, United Kingdom trip in 1980, and photographs of friends, pets and various artistic photographs. Accompanying material - Negative index Quantity: 65 b&w original photographic print(s). 11 colour original photographic print(s).
Travel in New Zealand
Date: December 1958
From: Williams, Edmund Gardner, b 1894 :Transparency slides of a trip to New Zealand and Australia
Reference: PA12-8795
Description: Transparency slides of Mr E G Williams' (Edmund Gardner Williams') travel in New Zealand between 1958 and 1959. This sheet of slides shows coastal ranges, and sheep being driven along a road near Gisborne; Tokomaru Bay; a railcar at Gisborne Railway Station; Matawai township; scenes in Whakatane and the Whakatane River; farming scenes at Holmridge farm at Waihue, near Dargaville, owned by Vernon and Ruth Woods, and a photograph of the Woods family. The family include Vernon and Ruth, and Clive and Barbara Woods, and "young Vern". Mr Williams spent Christmas 1958 with the Woods family. Slides on this sheet are numbered 579-603 with gaps for those removed for lectures on New Zealand. Arrangement: Mr Williams transferred slides (nos. 579, 582, 592, 594-595, 597, 599) showing a view of Gisborne; sheep droving near Gisborne; scenes at Holmridge farm including a group of a truck in a hayfield, and members of the Wood family. They were were from this sequence as part of a representative collection on New Zealand for various lectures which he gave when he returned to England. The lecture series are filed in later sequences. Quantity: 18 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm
Railway Workshop album
Date: [Circa 1933?]
Reference: PA1-o-428
Description: Photographs of a ministerial visit to inspect the Hutt Railway Workshops. The men arrive at the workshops in the "Red Terror", the General Manager's rail car, which was built in 1933. The group includes Michael Joseph Savage and Robert Semple, and they are seen inspecting parts for new rail cars, the sleeper adzing machine, the blacksmiths' shop, and various other activities. Inscriptions: Album page - Ministerial visit to Hutt Workshops Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with textured black cover, tied with cord, entitled `The "Warwick" Album'; 16 x 23 cm
Maffey album 1
Date: 1941-1945
From: Maffey, Eric Wagstaff, 1917-2000 :Photographs relating to Maffey's service in World War Two
Reference: PA1-o-1220
Description: Photographs of Eric Maffey and other military personnel in Egypt and Italy during World War Two. Includes postcards and photographs of street scenes in Alexandria, Sora, Napoli, Ischia and Salerno. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Purple plastic album 16.7 x 12.4 cm, containing 121 photographs
Wellington Trams and redundant locomotives at Railway Workshops, Lower Hutt.
Date: 1963
From: Smith, Alan Eldridge, 1945- : Collection
Reference: 35mm-02027-F
Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising five images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative
Hoy, Douglas George, 1937-1992 : Photographs of railway scenes
Date: [ca 1960s-1980s]
From: New Zealand Centre for Photography :Photographs
By: Hoy, Douglas George, 1937-1992
Reference: PAColl-9528-3
Description: Photographs of railway scenes taken by Douglas George Hoy. Includes photographs of trip to United Kingdom in 1980, and railways in New South Wales. Accompanying material - Negative index Quantity: 72 b&w original photographic print(s).
New Zealand Railway and Locomotive Society Inc :[Calendars. 1967, 1968, 1971, 1974-1982].
Date: 1967 - 1971 - 1974 - 1968 - 1982
By: New Zealand Railway and Locomotive Society
Reference: Eph-A-CALENDAR-NZRLS
Description: Each calendar features a photograph for each month, and these include steam trains as well as modern railcars. Quantity: 12 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on calendars. Physical Description: Calendars, mainly spiral bound, sizes varying around 235 x 155 mm.
Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989 :New regulations after complaints from the hostesses. 1...
Date: 1968
From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]
By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989
Reference: B-133-778
Description: The entire scene is of the Blue Streak railcar (Wellington to New Plymouth) at the platform where men in suits and hats, smoking cigarettes, are boarding. Further along the carriage, a workman is fixing a sign to its side; above is Non-smoking, Non-drinking; below is Non-threatening, Non-swearing. He speaks to a guard. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black and white ink, crayon, letratone and pencil, 318 x 467 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.