Opened on 9 August 1880 as part of the Palmerston North to Gisborne railway line. On 9 January 1907 this steel viaduct replaced the wooden Mangaturuturu Viaduct.
Ormondville Viaduct (N.Z.)
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Railway bridges
Date: 1973, 1992-1996, 1998
From: Thornton, Geoffrey Garth, 1922-2017: Papers and photographs relating to industrial and construction heritage
Reference: PA12-11615
Description: Transparencies of railway bridges in New Zealand, taken by Geoffrey Thornton or Jocelyn Thornton. Each slide mount is annotated with the subject (bridge or viaduct name, and/or river/stream name, and/or road name) and location (town, city, or area). Dates and photographer name are often but not always annotated. Title transcribed from item. Arrangement: Transparencies were arranged in a 6-row, 50 slides per row, metal case, alphabetically for the first 5 rows. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies in plastic and cardboard 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.
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Ormondville railway viaduct, 1928
Date: 1928
From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives
Reference: APG-1761-1/2-G
Description: View of the Ormondville Viaduct, with a road bridge in the left foreground. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber in 1928. Information from Godber's index (TL 6/1/15) held in Photographic Archives (under 1/2 plate negatives: Box 109. Viaduct. Ormondville. 1928) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches
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Ormondville railway viaduct
Date: [188-?]
From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera
Reference: 1/1-025507-G
Description: Ormondville railway viaduct, Tararua district, photographed circa 1880s by William Williams. Source of descriptive information - Library client, and comparison with PAColl-7505-02 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches
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Railway viaduct in Ormondville, southern Hawke's Bay
From: Bothamley, Robert Westley, 1888-1967 :Photographs of shipping and Wellington
Reference: PAColl-7405-02
Description: Railway viaduct in Ormondville, southern Hawke's Bay, probably taken by Arthur Thomas Bothamley. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 15.1 x 19.8 cm
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First Ormondville railway viaduct in southern Hawke's Bay
Date: [188-]
From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera
Reference: 1/1-025807-G
Description: Photograph taken by William Williams. Source of descriptive information - Negative registers. Photographer identified by curator John Sullivan. Library client says this is image is of the first Ormondville Viaduct in southern Hawke's Bay, previously identified from negative registers as the wooden viaduct at Mangaturuturu Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative