Places

Date: 1970-1971

By: New Zealand Railways

Reference: Eph-A-RAIL-1970/1971

Description: Includes advertising pamphlets for the Express railcar (1970), Silver Star (1971); the Southerner and its buffet car service (1970 and 1971) Includes various pamphlets on bulk travel vouchers, the Rimutaka Incline, and Raurimu Spiral railways, the Kaimai Railway deviation, a pamphlet about the Silver Stream Railway (1971), a Kingston Flyer ticket. Also includes timetables for the Paekakariki Line (November 1971 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, sizes varying under 250 mm

Date: [Between 1870s and 1890s]

By: Erskine & Whitmore (Firm); Coxhead & Le Sueur (Firm); Hart, Campbell & Company; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: PA1-o-151

Description: Views of New Zealand collected by Invercargill firm Erskine & Whitmore. Scenes taken by various photographers including Hart, Campbell & Co., and Coxhead & Le Sueur. Several views show Queenstown under floods in 1878; others of the Queenstown-Lakes Region, Waitati, Gore and Dunedin in the South Island. In the North Island, one shows a large picnic party travelling in three horse-drawn coaches, stopped at Ngauranga; many show a range of steam locomotives including J Class, K Class, F43, E22, H Class and A Class, in the Upper Hutt area, the Wairarapa, and on the Rimutaka line. Several at the end of the album show the effects of a major slip which blocked the mouth of the Summit Tunnel at the top of the Rimutaka Incline. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Other Titles - Erkine & Whitmore Inscriptions: Album page - `A choice collection of New Zealand views carefully selected from the best artists'. Erskine & Whitmore, Invercargill Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Blue buckram cover, 24.5 x 35.0 cm Provenance: Part of Alexander H Turnbull's collection

Date: 1905 to 1907

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

Reference: PA1-o-197

Description: Photographs taken by Albert Percy Godber between 1905 and 1907, covering a variety of topics. They include family photographs, both individual and group portraits, and Wellington houses (eg `Railway Whare', the house Godber and his family lived in, in Bay Street, Petone). One scene shows Godber's parents, Mary Ann and Charles Godber, with a large group of family members, including Albert Percy Godber, his wife Laura, and two children, Phyllis and William (p.21). On p. 13, Godber's wife Laura and two children are seen with an elderly couple, probably Laura's parents Charles Albert and Magdelina Clara Zinckgraf. Numbers of images show scenes associated with New Zealand Railways, including the Mataroa Railway Tunnel under construction, specific locomotives, signal stations, the railway station at Petone, and scenes at the Petone Railway Workshops. At the beginning of the album, several images show Godber and a team from the Petone Fire Brigade with medals they have won at fire-fighting practice competitions. A pocket at the front of the album holds two photographs, on of a new cutting on the road near Lowry Bay, and one of the `model of `D' class locomotive used in the Petone Peace Demonstration Procession' following the Boer War in 1902, signed `With A.P. Godber's compliments'. Other Titles - Title lettered on spine - Godber Album 105 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown buckram cover; 19.5 x 26.0 cm

Date: [Circa 1880s]

By: Phillips-Turner, Roland Glyndwr, 1902-1988; Bragge, James, 1833-1908; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916

Reference: PA1-f-077

Description: Photographs of New Zealand taken circa 1880s by various photographers including James Bragge and Josiah Martin. Photographs of the Manawatu Gorge were taken by James Bragge, some of which show the horse and carriage in which Bragge carried his equipment. There is one photograph of English explorer and adventurer Captain Speedy who spent many years in Abyssinia and other parts of Africa, and who came to New Zealand in 1864, where he fought with the Waikato Militia before returning overseas. He is shown wearing Abyssinian costume (p 15). Some photographs relate to the Haultain family, with a view of St John's College, of which Thomas Minet Haultain was a governor, anda view of Colonel Haultain and his family at their home in St Stephen's Avenue, Parnell, Auckland Inscriptions: Album page - "Frances Aplin Haultain, 14, August 1886"; Album page - "To I & E Phillips Turner, Easter 1905" Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with maroon cover, brown leather corners and spine; 31 x 42 cm

Date: [Circa 1900s to 1910s]

From: Mercer, Robert, fl 1964 :Photographs and albums of Maori, New Zealand views, and illustrations

Reference: PA1-o-338

Description: Album of photographs taken in the Otago and Southland Regions, by unidentified photographers. All the locations are well identified. Some of the images are related to railways, including railway tunnels (e.g. The Caversham Tunnel when under construction circa 1909), and the Hunts Road Tunnel; the Clutha Railway Bridge; the Wingatui Signal Box; the Balclutha Railway Station, railway yards, and sales-yards; railway barns; D-class engine (New Zealand Railways steam-engine No. 355); the Owaka Express; and bush tramway tracks, one sawmill typical of small mills in the Catlins area. Many of the images are taken with an emphasis on atmosphere, including sunsets, stormy days on the coast near Dunedin, evening at Ocean Beach, storm clouds at Lawyer's Head, and "By beach and sand-hill". There are a large number of views of the Dunedin Botanic Gardens and the Winter Gardens, and the Dunedin Reservoir. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark brown cover, gold lines down spine and across corners; 19.5 x 26.5

Date: 1952

Reference: MapColl-832.4gme/[1952]/Acc.37178

Description: Drawn on a base map, the annotations depict the placement of the railway tunnel through the Rimutaka Range and names several stations and landmarks in the vicinity. On verso is date '24.9.52' and a printed note about the length of the tunnel. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, scale indeterminable, 17 x 30.6 cm.

Date: [Between 1901 and 1903]

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

Reference: PA1-q-100

Description: Album of photographs taken by Albert Percy Godber between 1901 and 1903. South Island subjects include the Cape Foulwind Lighthouse and quarry, Westport railway yards and wharf, Reefton, and scenes of explosions in Lyttelton Harbour for Regatta Day, 1st January 1909, and a large number of people beside the Spit Volunteer Fire Brigade building. Scenes show the laying of foundation stones for the Petone Waterworks, and for the Baptist Church in Petone, both in 1903. There is also a view of the lecturn for St Augustine's Church in Petone, which was made by the Petone Railway Workshops. Several photographs show the Kelburn Cable Car, the cable car tunnel and the engine room, in 1903. Two photographs of a group of school children, the girls wearing white pinafores over dark coloured dresses. Some photographs relate to New Zealand railways, including specific locomotives, the Rimutaka Incline with the middle rail (part of the Fell System), railway tunnels, bush railways and railway workshops and yards; and some relate to Godber's interest and work in fire fighting. Other Titles - Title lettered on spine - Godber Album 106 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with brown buckram cover; 31.0 x 25.5 cm

Date: 1897 - 1899

From: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :Mary Medley's sketchbook No. 15. 1896-1899.

Reference: E-380-066

Description: Shows a train crossing a high valley line, with the tunnel mouth to the left. Trees, including tree ferns, surround the scene. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 165 x 230 (page size)

Date: 1882 - 1883

By: Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company Ltd

Reference: MapColl-f832.4799gme/Wa/1882/Acc.49754

Description: Contains a survey of the railway track and tunnel system to be constructed from 1882 along part of the Kaiwharawhara stream between Wadestown and Ngaio, Wellington. Has diagrams of cross-sections, cuttings, embankments and revetments, tunnels and culverts. Quantity: 1 folio of manuscript plans. Physical Description: Ink on dressed linen, ink on paper, some colour, sheets up to 74 x 158 cm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company. Conditions and specifications for Crofton section. MS-Papers-8260.

Date: 1870 - 1880

By: Higginson, Harry Pasley, 1838-1900; Tricks, Sarah, active 1999

Reference: A-307-061/067

Description: Includes: Thames Water Supply; cross sections of proposed head works. New Zealand Railways. Rock cutting. Auckland Railways [and] Otago Railways. Picton and Blenheim Railway. Waitohi Bridge. [Details]. Invercargill and Mataura Railway. Bridge over Mataura River. [Plan and details]. Proposed station, Dunedin. [Site plan]. Points and crossings. [Details]. Auckland and Mercer Railway. Auckland Station. [Site plan]. Originals are slightly larger than these copies. Quantity: 7 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour laser photocopies, sizes varying from 212 x 297 mm to 255 x 420 mm.

Date: 1888 - 1900

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Sketch book

Reference: E-346-2-057

Description: A railway line winding around the edges of steep hills, with a train on the left and a tunnel at a lower point on the right entering a steep hill. bush. Probably a view from the track, looking at another part of the track and the tunnel ahead. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour on sketchbook page, 132 x 187 mm.

Date: [ca 1890s]

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PAColl-7324

Description: Photographs of the Rimutaka railway including a locomotive at Cross Creek, a locomotive and carriages at the summit with railway workers houses next to the track, a tunnel, and the part of the track called Siberia. Photographer was the Burton Bros. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-003407 to 003411 and 003413 to 003414 Quantity: 7 b&w copy negative(s).

Date: 1897 - 1899

From: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :Mary Medley's sketchbook No. 15. 1896-1899.

Reference: E-380-003

Description: Shows a train travelling on a track through hills, either entering or exiting the Rimutaka Tunnel Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 165 x 230 (page size)

Date: [ca 1900-2008]

From: Ranger, Diana Rosemary, fl 1972-2009: Photographs taken by Murray and Stanley Vincent

Reference: PAColl-10028-3

Description: Photographs chiefly taken by Stanley Raymond Vincent (d 1991) and also his son Murray Francis Vincent (1944-2008). - Photographs by S R Vincent of the construction of the East Coast Railway (1937-1942). These feature the Waikura Tunnel, Tiki Whata Tunnel, Coast Tunnel, Kopuwhara Viaduct, Waipoa Bridge, [and Waratuha Tunnel] and illustrate bracing, lining, ventilation, electric lighting, and other construction techniques. Also shows unidentified workers, an anti-erosion technique, elevated tramway, steam engines, workers' camps (including at the south portal of the Waikura Tunnel) and the opening of the line on 3 Sep 1942 (with steam engines Ab' 710 and 750). Prints of unidentified railway yards [Gisborne?] and steam engine K900 are also included in collection. - Miscellaneous series show: the organ at Wellington Town Hall; Hamilton County Bluegrass Band anniversary concert group portraits; ships in the harbour (Straight Shipping), and trams; various family photos, including holidays (car and caravan), fishing, portraits, and unidentified houses; model steam boats at Pukekura Park (New Plymouth) and Taranaki Daily News steam train excursion (Inglewood to Midhurst). Also contains images showing a Fieldair Freight plane (ZK-BBJ) being loaded with fertilizer in Gisborne, Kihikihi Stores Ltd van and Murray Roberts & Co tyre distributors vehicle, Mount Aorangi and track at Buller Gorge, various [World War II?] images, including boats, fighter plane, and unidentified soldiers), an unidentified house, a sheep mustering scene, bullock train, and an early motorcar. Accompanying material - two sheets of paper with family history information Arrangement: Prints numbered 164 to 234 are in this box Quantity: 52 b&w original photographic print(s). 18 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints

Date: 1882-1883

By: Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company Ltd

Reference: MS-Papers-8260

Description: Conditions and specifications for the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company's Crofton section no 6 contract, 1882-1883 Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Printed matter with mss annotations Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by the Rail Heritage Trust New Zealand, Wellington, per Mr P Dent, Apr 2005 Transfers: To Cartographic Collection - Maps and associated papers relating to Crofton section of railway.

Date: Between 1949 and 1952

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

Reference: PA1-o-004

Description: "Illustrating geological observations, Vol 4". Black & white photographs of geological aspects of NZ. Includes details of structure & stratigraphy in the Otaki formation at Forest Lakes Road near Manakau, Horowhenua; geomorphological and geological notes on the Paremata area, Porirua Harbour, shoreline features on the eastern side of Wellington Harbour; features of Turakina, Waitotara and Castlecliff; NZ Geological Survey Staff Conference, Invercargill (April 25-May 6, 1950) with trips to Mataura Valley, Otamita River Valley, Bluff, Waiau River; visit to the Otaihanga tertiary outlier; features of the Wellington fault and escarpments (several images taken at different periods between 1949 and 1952); features of the Brocken Range and Kaiwhata Valley, East Wairarapa; geological notes on the Bay of Plenty area (December 7-14, 1950), including the causeway over the Waimapu Estuary at Tauranga, Mount Maunganui, Whakatane, Pohutaroa Rock; The Royal Society of NZ Science Congress, Christchurch (May 14-24, 1951), including an image of those attending the congress, with names (p 27); geological excursion to the Manawatu Gorge (November 24-25 1951); features of Rimutaka railway tunnels (Feb 1952); features of the south-east Wairarapa including Dry River and Ruakokopatuna Valleys, Eastern Palliser Bay and the Putangirua Pinnacles; NZ Geological Survey Staff Conference, Wellington (30 April-7 May 1952), with group photo of those attending, with names (p 41).

Date: 1917

By: Empson, Estelle, active 2000

Reference: PAColl-6121

Description: Arthurs Pass/Otira tunnel and the first passengers to go through on the 21 July 1917. Also a photograph of a bach at Lake Moana with Ernest Empson in front. Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1880s-1910s]

By: Holmes, Robert West, 1856-1936

Reference: PA1-o-1544

Description: Album compiled by civil engineer Robert West Holmes or a family member, ca 1880s-1910s. Shows North Island Main Trunk Railway works at Poro-o-tarao, Waiteti Viaduct, Huiroa Saddle, camp near Piriaka, Sew Hoy Dredge on Shotover River in 1890. Includes named portraits of railway engineers, family and friends in New Zealand and England. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 205 x 175 mm Provenance: Purchased at auction, 2009

Date: 1860

From: Haast family: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-0037-279

Description: Includes newspaper article, printed in 1944, on the tunnel survey.

Date: 1897 - 1899

From: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :Mary Medley's sketchbook No. 15. 1896-1899.

Reference: E-380-002

Description: A tunnel mouth amidst steep hills, partially cleared of bush. A train is either entering or exiting the tunnel Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 165 x 230 (page size)