Railway trains - New Zealand - Manawatū-Whanganui Region

Date: 1878

By: Halcombe, Edith Stanway, 1844-1903

Reference: A-226-012

Description: View from a low hill looking down to a plain with a train passing and streets along several roads, a stand of bush and hills Lithograph from: The Feilding Settlement, Manchester block, Manawatu, New Zealand. By A W F Halcombe Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph (two-tone) 109 x 195 mm

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: [1900s-1910s?]

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

Reference: PA1-o-339

Description: Album of photographs taken by unidentified photographers, taken in central North Island, and Otago and Southland regions, circa 1900s and 1910s. Some of the images are related to railways, including North Island scenes of the first passenger trip on 14th February 1909, during which the train stopped on the Raurimu Spiral because of a lack of engine power to haul it; the railway station at Longburn; a locomotive owned by the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company; various engines including one image showing a J Class locomotive and an A Class locomotive with the caption "Note the difference in 20 years". South Island trains are shown in the Catlins District, including the construction of the Catlins River Railway, the Houipapa Quarry on the Catlins River Extension, loading wagons in the Balclutha ballast pit, the viaduct across the Catlins River at Houipapa, the Clutha Railway Bridge, and the Houipapa terminus on the Catlins River Railway. The North Island scenic views include the areas around Lake Rotorua, the Government Sanatorium at Rotorua, Sophia's Whare, a group of Maori boys diving for pennies, Whakarewarewa, Okere and Ohakune. Scenic views in the South Island are mostly around Dunedin (including Telford's country house in the Balclutha District), Clutha River, Balclutha, and the Catlins, including flax swamps and flax mills in the Catlins District. Many of the images are taken with an emphasis on atmosphere, includingGathering storm", "Beside the winding river", "Outward bound", "A heavy pull" and "A calm day". Inscriptions: Album page - "Thus we remember many a sunny hour with bike and camera"-Inside back cover Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with very dark blue cover, black leather corners and spine; 22 x 29 cm

Date: [190-?]

From: Daroux, Louis John, 1870-1948 :Photographs of New Zealand and the Pacific

Reference: 1/1-039362-G

Description: Palmerston North Railway Station. There are two trains at the station and people on the platform. Photograph taken ca 1900s by Louis John Daroux. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: 1888

From: Hoare, E A, fl 1887-1888 :Drawings, watercolour sketches, photographs and notes of E A Hoare, Artiste, on board 'S S Tongariro'. December 1887 to March 1888

Reference: E-955-f-029-2

Description: A half-length profile view of a Maori man smoking a pipe in a train carriage. He wears a wide-brimmed European hat, a long piece of greenstone in his left ear, and has a long scarf knotted around his neck. He sports moko on his chin. There appear to be no other passengers in the carriage, and he seems to be unaware of being sketched Other Titles - Wanganui Other Titles - Whanganui Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and pencil on paper, 94 x 116 mm, on sketchbook page 255 x 370 mm

Date: [190-?]

From: Daroux, Louis John, 1870-1948 :Photographs of New Zealand and the Pacific

Reference: 1/1-039526-G

Description: View of the Piripiri Viaduct. There is a train on the bridge. Photograph taken ca 1900s by Louis John Daroux. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: 1909

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

Reference: APG-0397-1/2-G

Description: The Auckland to Wellington express, with an "A" Class locomotive, on the Raurimu Spiral. Photographed by A P Godber at 6.30am sometime during 1909. Original print at Pa1-q-103 (Godber Album vol 110, p 18) Inscriptions: Album page - Auckland-Wellington Xpress on the "Spiral" 6.30am. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: [ca 1936]

From: Tiller, Eileen, active 1957-2014: Collection

Reference: 1/2-114904-F

Description: Houses and railway carts, Horopito. Shows the backs of houses, and railway carts (one filled with firewood) on the tracks. Mount Ruapehu is in the distance. Photograph taken circa 1936, by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1949

Reference: 1/2-020339-F

Description: The Daylight Limited train crossing the Hapuawhenua Viaduct north of Ohakune, photographed Labour weekend 1949. Photographer unidentified. Library client supplied the date and identified the locomotive. Source of title - Title supplied by the library. This photograph and information about the date, was published on page 216 of `Steel Roads of New Zealand,' Gordon Troup (Ed), A H & A W Reed, 1973. The locomotive is also a KA 941 minus its ACFI feedwater heaters and the casing that covered the smokebox, and pannels along the boiler top and running boards. All of these were removed in 1948. (Information from `Register of New Zealand Railway steam locomotives,' W G Lloyd, Otago Railway and Locomotive Society & Triple Publications, 2002.) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Date: [190-?]

From: Olsson, Arthur Leslie, 1923- :Photographs

By: Beattie, William, 1864-1931

Reference: PAColl-3255-025

Description: Train passing through The Square, Palmerston North, taken ca 1900s by William Beattie. Inscriptions: Recto - top left - Wellington Express passing through Palmerston North, N.Z.; Recto - top right - Copyright Photo by W. Beattie. Quantity: 1 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Halftone photomechanical print

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

Reference: APG-1492-1/4-G

Description: Passenger train, the Daylight Express, crossing the Manganui-a-te-Ao Viaduct. There is a road bridge in the foreground. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber. A note on the back of the file print reads "Godber Album 100 p 18". This original print was not on that page nor elsewhere in the volume; not located (Feb 2003) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.25 x 3.25 inches

Date: 1930 - 1939

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

Reference: APG-1513-1/4-G

Description: View along a train stopped at Waiouru Railway Station, railway track in the centre, and the corner of a station building on the left. Mount Ruapehu is in the background, and a railway employee is standing by the train with a broom. Taken by Albert Percy Godber circa 1930s. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.25 x 3.25 inches

Date: 1917

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

Reference: APG-0478-1/2-G

Description: X class steam 4-8-0 locomotive hauling goods carriages ascending the Raurimu Spiral. Photograph taken by A P Godber in 1917. Other - Original print at Pa1-q-102 (Godber Album vol 109, p 22) Source of descriptive information - Locomotive identified by Library client Inscriptions: Album page - Ascending the "Spiral". Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: 1911

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

By: Aldersley, David James, 1862-1928

Reference: APG-1516-1/4-G

Description: Steam locomotive with the Auckland Express leaving Ohakune. Photographer identified as David James Aldersley. This negative in the Albert Percy Godber Collection. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - The Auckland Express leaving Ohakune. A121b. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.25 x 3.25 inches

Date: 1920s?

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

Reference: APG-0801-1/2-G

Description: Train with a steam locomotive on the North Island Main Trunk Line near Ohakune. Photographed by Albert Percy Godber. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: [ca 1911]

From: James, C S :Postcards of New Zealand

Reference: PAColl-7237-01

Description: Auckland express train leaving Ohakune railway station, on the main trunk line. Shows a steam locomotive hauling passenger carriages. Photograph taken circa 1911 by David James Aldersley. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - The Auckland Express Leaving Ohakune A121b Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 8.9 x 14 cm Processing information: Formerly filed in Turnbull Library Pictures at 385. Railways. Lines. Main Trunk [N.I] Ohakune. ca 1911