Railway workshops and yards - New Zealand - Canterbury Region

Date: 1992, date unknown

From: Thornton, Geoffrey Garth, 1922-2017: Papers and photographs relating to industrial and construction heritage

Reference: PA12-12256

Description: Transparencies of concrete construction in New Zealand, taken by Geoffrey Thornton or Jocelyn Thornton. Each slide mount is annotated with the name or brief description, and/or the location, of the concrete structure. Dates and photographer name are sometimes annotated. Buildings/structures and locations annotated on the slide mounts include Blue Baths at Rotorua, old cement kilns at Tarakohe, No. 5 pumphouse at Waihi, Crown Battery remains at Karangahake, concrete ford near Tangiteroria, former freezing works at Hicks Bay, former freezing works office at Waipaoa, Fort Ballance in Wellington, water tower and detail of plaque on water tower at New Zealand Railway Workshops in Addington in Christchurch. Title supplied by Library. Few slides have dates annotated Arrangement: Transparencies were arranged in a six-row, 43 slides per row, metal case. The case was not labelled; the order appears have begun as largely alphabetical by location, name of building/structure, or name of station/farm; however, arrangement becomes more disordered in the last two rows of the case. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies in plastic slide mounts. Processing information: Slides have been removed from container and put into archival pockets, following the original order, from left to right and top to bottom.

Date: ca 1910

Reference: 1/2-003096-F

Description: Open railway carts loaded with large cylindrical drums and others with timber and coal behind. Offices of the New Zealand Farmers Co-operative Association and the New Zealand Shipping Company are on the left and there are houses on the hill behind. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Date: [ca 1960s-1980s]

From: New Zealand Centre for Photography :Photographs

By: Hoy, Douglas George, 1937-1992

Reference: PAColl-9528-3

Description: Photographs of railway scenes taken by Douglas George Hoy. Includes photographs of trip to United Kingdom in 1980, and railways in New South Wales. Accompanying material - Negative index Quantity: 72 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 18 Oct-18 Nov 1960

From: Moohan, Michael, 1899-1967: Photographs relating to Member of Parliament Michael Moohan

Reference: PA1-o-1801

Description: Photograph album detailing the work of Minister Michael Moohan, Oct-Nov 1960. Events covered are mainly openings of buildings relating to railways and post offices. These feature speeches, dignitaries, and the facilities, including: Porirua-Mana railway deviation and duplication (7 Nov); Titahi Bay Post Office (18 Nov); Railways Travel Centre in Rotorua (15 Nov); Christchurch Railway Station (also covered is the first meeting held in its conference facility) (1 Nov); East Linwood Post Office, Christchurch (1 Nov); Lake Road Post Office, Takapuna, North Shore, Auckland (26 Oct); railway tranship shed, Frankton, Hamilton (25 Oct); and the Longburn railway bridge (18 Oct). Album also contains photographs of the minister signing contract documents for a rail-road ferry [Aramoana?] and the laying of the foundation stone at Morrinsville Post Office (25 Oct). The photographer, and compiler of the album, is unidentifided. Identified figures listed in the names field. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album

Date: 1880s

From: Bextaud, E J (Mrs), fl 1976 :Photographs of New Zealand

By: Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908

Reference: PA7-42-19

Description: Elevated view of the town and port. Several ships are berthed at the wharves. In the foreground are rolling stock and sheds. Photograph taken by F A Coxhead. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Lyttelton; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - F.A.C. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14.3 x 19.4 cm

Date: ca 1904

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

Reference: APG-0039-1/2-G

Description: Goods train with class T locomotive, leaving Lyttelton. Photographed by A P Godber, ca 1904. The class T locomotives were built by Baldwin, and went into service in 1880. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1898

From: National Union of Railwaymen :Photographs of New Zealand Railways Addington Staff during the South African War period

By: Dutch, F W, active 1900-1906

Reference: PAColl-1100-A4

Description: The forge at Addington railway workshops. Photograph taken 1898 by F W Dutch. Source of descriptive information - caption on print Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Protected [unreadable]/98 F W Dutch Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 15.2 x 20.2 cm

Date: 9 May 1898

From: National Union of Railwaymen :Photographs of New Zealand Railways Addington Staff during the South African War period

By: Dutch, F W, active 1900-1906

Reference: PAColl-1100-A3

Description: Interior of the Addington blacksmith shop. Photograph taken 9 May 1898 by F W Dutch Source of descriptive information - caption on print Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Protected 9/5/98 F.W. Dutch Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 21 x 28.9 cm

Date: Circa 1926

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

Reference: APG-1855-1/2-G

Description: View of "Ab" 783 steam locomotive (4-6-2 type), probably at Addington, Christchurch, circa 1926. Photographed by Albert Percy Godber. "Ab" 783 steam locomotive (4-6-2 type) was built by New Zealand Railways at Addington (maker's No 240/26), went into service in July 1926 and was written off in November 1966. See "Register of New Zealand Railways steam locomotives, 1863-1971" by W G Lloyd. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: [ca 1920]-1928

From: Cory-Wright, Silston, 1888-1976: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-7080-1

Description: Views of newly laid pipelines feeding the Lake Coleridge Power Station. Included in the views are Lake Coleridge Village, the bed of the Rakaia River and the mountains of the Hutt and Black Hill ranges. There are also other images relating to the power scheme including groups of people around the lake, a small unidentified building and a mechanism which was part of the workings of the surge chamber. Also included in this group of images are two photographs of the interiors of the the Addington or Hillside railway workshops. Finally there are three images of electric locomotives. The second group of photographs relate to the rebuilding of the Addington and Hillside railway workshops. The images of Addington were photographed on the 7th of March 1928, and those of Hillside on the 9th of March 1928. There are six images of an unidentified electricity substation. The last six images are of Silston Cory-Wright and one of his children. Quantity: 41 b&w original photographic print(s).