Lyttelton Rail Tunnel (N.Z.)

Date: 1929

From: New Zealand Railways :[Ephemera relating to railways, railway trains, rail timetables, rail travel in New Zealand. 1920-1929]

By: Cory-Wright & Salmon Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-RAIL-1929-01

Description: Booklet giving specifications of the electric substation at Woolston installed by the Public Works Departmentled by New Zealand Railways, and the electric locomotives. The front cover shows an electric engine emerging from the Christchurch-Lyttelton rail tunnel. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on booklet of four pages, 202 x 135 mm. Provenance: Cory-Wright & Salmon papers, acquired in 1977. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - 77-048. - Transferred from Manuscripts 77-048..

Date: 1860

From: Haast family: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-0037-279

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

Date: [between 1861 and 1867]

From: Making New Zealand :Negatives and prints from the Making New Zealand Centennial collection

Reference: MNZ-1683

Description: Lyttelton rail tunnel under construction. The provincial engineer, Edward Dobson, in his distinctive white top hat, can be seen near the tunnel entrance.Photograph taken between 1861 and 1867 by an unidentified photographer. Publication note - Published in Making New Zealand (Wellington [N.Z.] : New Zealand Dept. of Internal Affairs, 1940) Vol 2, No 17, page 6. Source of descriptive information - Notes on item. Quantity: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 14.6 x 20.6 cm Provenance: Photograph from William Walter Stewart for the Department of Internal Affairs' publication 'Making New Zealand' (1939-1940).

Date: Dec 1959

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-51913

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Photographic negative