Railways - New Zealand - Wellington Region

Date: 1881-1909

By: Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company Ltd

Reference: MSX-2557

Description: Comprises complete set of the company's printed annual reports detailing its construction and operating activities. Includes handwritten note of important dates at front, newspaper clippings, notices of meetings, prospectuses, maps and a copy of the Act effecting the purchase of the company. Source of title - Cover title Company founded in Jan 1881 by Wellington Chamber of Commerce to enable work to re-commence on the Wellington-Johnsonville railway line, begun by government in 1879 but stopped in 1880. The line was completed as far as Longburn, near Palmerston North, and officially opened on 1 Dec 1886. The government exercised its option and nationalised the line, buying the company's assets for £900,000, in 1908. Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.06 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Printed matter (33 cm; full maroon morocco, gold-tooled decoration) Provenance: Name "A W J Cook" on cover; in ink on top of minutes of ordinary quarterly meeting of Wellington Chamber of Commerce (probably a member), 22 Sep 1880; possible relative of donor.

Date: 1967, 1974-1975, 1990

From: Robinson, Peter Franklin, active 1970-2017: Colour slides of Wellington City and suburbs, and railways images

Reference: PA12-0075

Description: Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1878

From: Holmes, Katherine McLean, 1849-1925 :Pencil and watercolour drawings 1868-1891

By: Holmes, Katherine McLean, 1849-1925

Reference: E-326-f-033-2

Description: Shows the railway track between cliffs and bush clad hills, with Wairarapa Plain in the distance Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - K Holmes; Recto - bottom right - First glimpse of the Wairarapa plain from the railway Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 145 x 244 mm

Date: 1978

From: Wellington Regional Council : Marie Sang map collection

By: Wellington Regional Planning Authority

Reference: MapColl-WRC-R23/32-Acc.

Description: Identifies: State highways, urban areas and railways. Shows Wellington Region boundary as at 26th May 1090. Base information by permission of Department of Lands and Survey Quantity: 1 map(s) + transparency. Physical Description: Ink on white paper. Scale [ca 1: 100 000] 78 x 59 cm

From: Alexander Turnbull Library :Images by New Zealand photographers

By: Northwood, Arthur James, 1880-1949; Winzenberg, Albert Edward, 1865-1931

Reference: PA12-0083

Description: Quantity: 4 colour copy transparency/ies.

Date: 1908 - 1909

From: [Postcard album of cards collected by Bessie Cornish. 1905-1920].

Reference: Eph-B-POSTCARD-Vol-12-075

Description: Shows a view of the Hutt Road with the railway beside it, and an overhead bridge, across which the New Plymouth train is steaming. Wellington is in the distance, with the harbour at the left. Published by Fergusson Limited, and printed in Sydney. Sepia series. Exhibited in 'Petone Days; Photographs by Percy Godber 1900-1920 (Exhibition)' Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on postcard in album.. Physical Description: Photolithograph, 89 x 138 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs B L M August in 1976.

Date: 2003

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to the film trilogy "Lord of the Rings" directed by Peter Jackson. 2001-2009]

By: Tranz Rail Ltd; Harrison, Bernie, active 2007

Reference: Eph-A-CINEMA-LOTR-2003-02

Description: Two ticket pads, partially used, of tickets to be issued on the Hutt Valley - Paraparaumu line, on 1 December 2003, the day of the world premiere in Wellington, of "Return of the King", the third in the film trilogy "Lord of the Rings" directed by Peter Jackson. The tickets were available for unlimited rail travel between Upper Hutt, Paraparaumu and Wellington between 12 noon on 1 December and 1 am on 2 December 2003. The $3 child ticket shows a head and shoulders frontal portrait of Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn. The $7 adult ticket shows Sam (Sean Astin) comforting Frodo (Elijah Wood). Quantity: 2 ticket booklets. Physical Description: Offset prints on ticket booklets, originally of around 100 tickets, each 82 x 34 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mr Bernie Harrison, Wellington, in 2007.

Date: 1981

From: Wellington Regional Council : Marie Sang map collection

Reference: MapColl-WRC-R17/7A-Acc.

Description: Identifies walk connector, car centroid connector and bus and rail link See MapColl-WRC-R17/3A Quantity: 1 map(s) [with annotations] + transparency. Physical Description: Ink on pink paper. Scale indeterminable, 83 x 78 cm.

Date: 1904 - 1905

From: [Postcard album of cards collected by Joye Eggers / Taylor. 1905-1970s].

By: Aldersley, David James, 1862-1928

Reference: Eph-B-POSTCARD-Vol-6-009-btm

Description: Shows a train steaming northwards beside the Hutt Road and Wellington Harbour. There is a horse and cart in the central foreground, and the city of Wellington behind. Exhibited in 'Petone Days; Photographs by Percy Godber 1900-1920 (Exhibition)' Photograph is probably by David Aldersley. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on postcard.. Physical Description: Hand-coloured photograph, 140 x 89 mm.

Date: 1945 - 1950

By: Bogle, Archibald Hugh, 1883-1972; Gordon Harcourt Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.47981gbbd/[ca 1950/Acc.14569

Description: Part of a surveyed, cadastral map of a subdivision in Linden, Tawa, showing Deposited Plan 9069 (transferred from 2054), named Tawa Extension no. 7. The subdivision runs between part of Old Porirua Road, Findlay and Handyside streets and the Wellington to Masterton railway, from Gee Street to Collins Ave. Includes road and section surveys, the latter numbered, with acreage. This copy includes only a part of the original map. It also shows part of a further segment, namely numbered surveyed sections 87 and 127-137, with acreage, bounded by the part of the railway and part of Collins Ave. Map includes notes regarding the subdivision and two signatures, a reference key regarding colour coding of roads (not visible on this copy), the number '56', and Certificate of Title numbers 170/24, 25. Also includes some pencil annotations on white section of map, indicating bearings. Includes part block numbers. Indicates part of the Porirua Stream. Other Titles - Tawa Flat (Linden) DP 2054 (transferred to DP 9069) see C[ertificate of] T[itle]'s 461/230 and 392/273. Includes blue ink annotation: L88 GB. Title from pencil annotation on map recto. Please note, part of that title was crossed out (DP 9069) and used further on in that title. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Negative photographic copy, scale indeterminable, 45.2 x 48.2 cm.

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: 1880s

From: Three albums of New Zealand views

Reference: PA1-o-983

Description: Views of New Zealand, comprising Mt Egmont from New Plymouth Domain, Napier, bullock team hauling wool at Cheviot, Wellington, Manawatu Gorge bridge, Manawatu Gorge, Rimutaka railway, Mount Alexander, Otira Gorge, Lyttelton breakwater, Armagh Street bridge in Christchurch, and Christchurch Cathedral. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 3 January 1882

By: New Zealand. Public Works Department; Archives New Zealand

Reference: MapColl-832.4gme/1881/Acc.4842

Description: A hand-drawn copy of a topographic map of P.W.D. survey plan 8554 for the proposed route of the railway line from Paekakariki to Wareroa clearing in the Horowhenua on the Foxton line. In two areas an alternative railway line is drawn and all railway lines, not recommended and recommended, are referred to in a reference key. A cross sectional plan of the same area is included. Other Titles - Wellington and Foxton railway; Paekakariki - Horowhenua sketch plan trial line Handwritten note on left of map states: The starting point of this mileage is 7 miles, 3.05 chains from Wellington Main Station Stamp on verso states: National Archives, Group W, PW 8554, 1881 Note on bottom right states: Copy of P.W.D. 8554. This is a hand drawn manuscript map Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and colourwash on dressed linen, coloured, scale [1:28 512], 55.22 x 191.5 cm

Date: 2000 - 2009

By: New Zealand Railways

Reference: Eph-B-RAIL-2000/2009

Description: Includes general promotional material for the railway's services including Tranz Metro timetables for Wellington suburban services. Also includes a flier for International Rail Action Day 2004; a flier announcing "Walk the Johnsonville Line Day, 4 February 2009 (Crofton Downs to Wadestown Loop); copies of Metro news for 2002 and 2003; and a flier about Loco Miniature Railway and Gardens at Otaki 2007. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset print, sizes varying under 330 mm.

Date: ca 1909

From: Berwick, S W (Mr) :Albums of New Zealand scenes and coastal towns

Reference: PA1-o-834

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

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: 1938

From: New Zealand Railways :[Ephemera relating to railways, railway trains, rail timetables, rail travel in New Zealand. 1930-1939]

By: New Zealand Railways; E.V. Paul (Firm)

Reference: Eph-A-RAIL-1938-02

Description: Cover shows an electric unit on a railway line, with the crest of the New Zealand Railways at the top. The title on the inside front page is: "Official change-over from steam to electric traction and introduction of multiple unit passenger trains. Inaugural ceremony at Wellington Station, 2.30 pm, Saturday, 2nd July 1938. Inside pages show photographs of the exterior and interior of the units, the auxiliary control compartment in the motor coach, the interior of the 1500-volt rectifier cubicle, telescopic handrails and flexible jumpers between carriages, the inerior of a carriage, a timetable of bus and rail services. There is also a history of the old Manawatu Line, a photograph of the new electric locomotive, nine of which were being built at the Hutt Valley Railway Workshops, photographs of the "Maahunui" and "Aotea" railcars, and a "K" class locomotive, and the 31-seater diesel bus that operated between Wellington and Johnsonville. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs in booklet of 16 pages, 187 x 255 mm.

Date: 1982

From: New Zealand Railways: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-0523

Description: Publicity photographs produced by New Zealand Railways of new top-loading, liquid tank and open top coal containers, electric trains passing on different lines outside Wellington, electrification of the Paekakariki to Paraparaumu line with men putting up overhead power structures, and a man inspecting 504 foot lengths of welded track. Also included is an information sheet on the new top-loadiung railway containers. Quantity: 6 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1910s-1950s]

By: Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-6866

Description: 152 views and portraits. They include: at least 22 of Picton and and the surrounding area showing boating in the harbour, people pic-nicking on the waterfront, people watching a rowing race, a speedboat called Pelorus Jack racing in the Sounds, and ferries coming in to the terminus; 10 images of the geothermal area around Wairakei inlcuding mud pools and geysers; nine images of a Studebaker Commander 6 either parked at scenic views or driving along country roads; eight images of men talking possibly at race meetings; six of the timber industry particularly the building of a timber boom; four aerial views of a liner coming into Auckland harbour; three views of groups of well-dressed men and women wearing what are possibly conference badges in an area decorated with bunting; three similar images of a large group of women photographed at Te Aro School near the Carillon also with conference badges; three general views of Wellington harbour; three images of the Spa Hotel, Taupo; two images of two women in bathing suits; two views of the railway station from The Terrace, Wellington; two views of a girl in Wellington Botanic Gardens; a scene on board the RMS Mononwai with a woman being photographed framed by the life belt; two of Aorangi; one of the ferry Cobar in Wellington Harbour; two of children riding on donkeys; two of the same elderly couple outside their house; two of young men on the boat Starlight; a group of what are probably sheep shearers outside their shed; Aotea Quay, Wellington; the yacht Ilex in Wellington harbour; children playing on swings; a large wooden gothic style house (location unknown); sheep droving; two women on a Bell Bus Company tour; various scenes on board ship including passengers watching an entertainer, a boxing match and a crossing the equator ceremony; a ship's officer climing down a rope ladder on the side of a ship; two of kauri trunks being transported on the Roxen, 1932; and a small child looking at an overturned carved wooden statue. The majority of the remaining images are of unidentified landscapes. Photographer(s) unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-030982, 030983, 030985, 030992 to 030996, 030998, 031005, 031007 to 031010, 031012, 031013, 031016 to 031045, 031049, 031051 to 031059, 031154 to 031192, 031198 to 031203, 031205 to 031217, 031227 to 031248, 031737, 031739, 031740, 092294 to 092305 Quantity: 114 b&w original negative(s) film. 38 b&w original negative(s) glass. Physical Description: Film and glass ¼ plate negatives

Date: [1929-1934]

From: Furkert, Frederick William, 1876-1949 : Reports and newspaper clippings

Reference: MS-Papers-7325

Description: Reports on nitrogen fixation, Arapuni hydroelectric works, correspondence, typescripts in relation to the Rimutaka Incline and Taranaki/Auckland railway lines, copy of the `Electrical times' Source of title - Supplied Other Titles - Electrical times (v85, n2206, 1 Feb 1934) Relationship complexity - See TAPUHI for further material relating to F W Furkert Quantity: 1 folder(s). Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Dr R J Furkert, Kelson, Lower Hutt, per Mr G Mew, Jan 2002