IMAGE
Steam locomotive 449, Wh class
- Date
- [ca 1909]
- Reference
- PA1-q-101-1
- Description
Steam locomotive 449, Wh class, type 2-6-2T, built by Manning Wardle. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber, circa 1906. Godber's son William is on the left. F McGowan stands in the centre. Location unknown. This image is a copy made by Godber of the print in his album, Vol 108, p 64 (PA1-q-101).
Inscriptions: Album page - top centre - No 449 (No. 4); Album page - bottom centre - Wh. 1884. Written off 1929.
Built in 1884 for the Wellington & Manawatu Railway Company (WMR No 4). Number changed to \"Wh\" 449 after New Zealand Railways purchased WMR at the end of 1908. It was written off on the 15th of August 1915, and sold. (Information from the `Register of New Zealand Steam Locomotives 1863-1971' by W G Lloyd, 1974, page 62.)
Original glass negative is at APG-1097-1/2-G
Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 158 x 106 mm, mounted to album page
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives / Locomotives of the New Zealand Railways
- Format
- 1 b&w original photographic print(s), Photographs, Silver gelatin print, 158 x 106 mm, mounted to album page, Orientation: Horizontal image
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