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Fell engine and train exiting Siberia Tunnel on the Rimutaka Incline
Date: [ca 1910]
From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives
Reference: APG-0153-1/2-G
Description: Fell engine and train exiting Siberia Tunnel on the Rimutaka Incline. High fences as windbreaks are on both sides of the railway line, with a young boy (possibly William Godber) sitting on the fence in right foreground. Photograph taken ca 1910 by Albert Percy Godber. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass plate negative
Steam locomotives and railway workers outside a Christchurch engine shed - Photographer...
Date: 1886
From: Making New Zealand :Negatives and prints from the Making New Zealand Centennial collection
Reference: PAColl-3060-029
Description: F and N class steam locomotives, unidentified railway workers, and a young boy, outside a Christchurch engine shed in 1886. Photographer unidentified. Making New Zealand caption reads: "Bowler hats were popular with men in the eighties. Here is a group of railwaymen, many of whom are wearing bowlers." Published in 'Making New Zealand' Vol 2, No 23, page 30 Quantity: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 15.4 x 20.7 cm Provenance: Item lent by William Walter Stewart to the Department of Internal Affairs for publication in 'Making New Zealand' in 1939. Processing information: Formerly filed in Turnbull Library Pictures at: 385. Locomotives. Steam. F
Steam locomotive, Canterbury Railways no 1, at Ferrymead, Christchurch
Date: Dec 1863
Reference: 1/2-022793-F
Description: Steam locomotive, Canterbury Railways no 1, at Ferrymead, Christchurch, December 1863. Note on back of file print reads "First train to leave Christchurch Railway Station." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative
Wellington and Manawatu Railway locomotives and crew at Paekakariki
Date: [Between 1886 and 1888]
From: Levin, William Hort, 1845-1893 :Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company Ltd :Views on the Wellington & Manawatu Railway
Reference: PA1-f-239-12
Description: View of Paekakariki railway yards, showing three Wellington and Manawatu Railway locomotives, Belmont (left), No 8 (centre) and No 2 (right). Photograph taken between 1886 and 1888 by Wrigglesworth & Binns of Wellington. Standing in front of the locomotives are (from left): unknown, I Fryer (driver), C Fielding (fireman), J Foster (driver), unknown, yard foreman (name unknown), unknown, W Trueman (driver), and V Richardson (fireman). Identifed from "Uncommon Carrier", by K R Cassells, Wellington, 1994. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - 189. Manawatu Ry Co's engines at Paikakariki [sic]. W&B Belmont was owned by contractor J Saunders and used on construction and maintenance of the Wellington and Manawatu Railway until 1888. Locomotive No 8 arrived in Wellington in March 1886. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Collodion print 15.2 x 20.5 cm, mounted on album page 23.4 x 30.1 cm