Railway stations - New Zealand - Auckland Region

Date: Between 1910s and 1930s

From: AFCM :Six albums containing newspaper and magazine clippings, and some original photographs

By: Barker, Frank Giles, 1891-1955

Reference: PA1-f-002

Description: Includes a page showing the four main university colleges in New Zealand, circa 1930s; pages of botanical drawings; pages showing the Lever Brothers' soap manufacturing building, aspects of packaging Sunlight Soap and Lux soap powder at the factory, all photographed by F.G. Barker of Courtenay Place, Wellington. Also includes photographs and newspaper cuttings of transport used by country children going to school, including horseback and riding on cows. Images of various schools; bombers and fighters at Wigram Aerodrome during the visit to NZ of the Duke of York in 1927, including Bristol fighters, Avro 504 fighters, DH4 and DH9 bombers; map showing NZ as it would be situated if placed in corresponding latitude of Northern Hemisphere, NZ Government Railways; mean annual rainfall map of NZ (signed DG Bates, Director of Meteorological Office, 7.6.1911); farm buildings on Somes Island; cattle mustering at White Rock (Wairarapa); views of trains on the railway line between Pukerua Bay and Paekakariki before the Centennial Highway was constructed; view of the Jubilee floating dock arriving in Wellington in 1931, towed by two Dutch ocean-going tugboats.

Date: 1890 - 1910

Reference: Plans-2005-078

Description: Shows plans for Auckland Railway Station, including two portions of the floor plan, roadway elevation, and platform elevation. There is also a section showing the attachment of the verandah to the building. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on waxed linen paper, 455 x 970 mm.

Date: ca 1880

Reference: PAColl-7406

Description: Photographs of Auckland including: looking across the harbour to Devonport; the Rakaia in Caliope dock; the Scotch church; looking down College Hill; Victoria Street looking across Queen Street to Albert Park showing businesses in the area such as Sharland & Co and R White boot shop; Mount Eden; the Supreme Court; the flagpole and cannons at the top of Albert Park looking out over the harbour; two views of Karangahape Road showing shops, carriages and carts; the first St Matthew's Church; St Paul's Church on Symonds Street; the public hospital showing the tennis court in front and the screens on the balconies; houses on Franklin Road, Ponsonby; the Railway Station with advertising for the New Zealand Shipping Co Ltd and Arthur Cleave & Co; Ponsonby Road with a church on the left and J Clarke, undertakers, on the right; Ponsonby Road with a bakers and butchers on the right; the Synagogue on Princes Street; looking north along Queen Street with the DSC building on the right; a ship in dry-dock at the wharves; Hobson Street with St Matthew's Church on the right; and four views of the wharves including one showing the ferry. Photographs of Lyttelton: two elevated views to the harbour one with a church in the centre and the other with an artist painting the view at an easel; the railway lines at the wharves; and three men next to coal carts being loaded with coal from a ship at the wharves. Described on the reverse of the file prints as "copy negatives taken from faded prints". Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-004172 to 004200 Quantity: 30 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives

Date: [Circa 1932]

By: Searle, Roland James, 1904-1984

Reference: PA1-f-131

Description: Album of photographs chiefly taken by Roland James Searle, circa 1930s. The first subject is the opening of the Wellington Citizens' War Memorial (Cenotaph), and includes a programme of the dedication and handing over on Sunday 17th April, 1932 (p 001-012). That is followed by the consecration ceremony for the National War Memorial and War Memorial Carillon (again with a copy of the programme), held on Anzac Day, April 25th, 1932 (p 015-023). Pages 029-033 show the arrival of the Wellington Jubilee Dock in 1931, the floating dock which was towed from England by two Dutch tugboats. The next sequence is entitled "The Express pulls out - Thorndon", and follows the Express to Wanganui where views show a river-boat trip up the Whanganui River (p 037-056), and include a map of historical areas on the river compiled by Annabell & Marchant, surveyors of Wanganui (p 055). The train trip is continued in the next section, and includes an illustrated diagram of the Raurimu Spiral, then arrival at the new Beach Road Auckland Railway Station. Photographs of Auckland include the Auckland Institute and Museum, Auckland University, Grafton Bridge, a sailing ship at the wharves, and the Auckland Zoo. Further North there are scenes of ploughing, a mine entrance, rock formations at Waro, and the Taheke Falls; before travelling to Rotorua and the surrounding thermal regions. A number of images were taken at Whakarewarewa, including photos of Paul Thomas and his wife, along with scenes showing women washing clothes in hot pools, a woman with a baby on her back holding a rope with a food basket cooking in the pool, children in a hot pool, and men at work carving. Paul Thomas wrote to thank Searle for sending him copies of photographs (p 101, written on May 1st 1932). Later photographs again with the train often in view show timber felling and milling, and views of the Arapuni hydroelectic power station. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with textured grey cloth cover, entitled "Snapshots"; 28.5 x 39.0 cm

Date: 1870 - 1880

By: Higginson, Harry Pasley, 1838-1900; Tricks, Sarah, active 1999

Reference: A-307-061/067

Description: Includes: Thames Water Supply; cross sections of proposed head works. New Zealand Railways. Rock cutting. Auckland Railways [and] Otago Railways. Picton and Blenheim Railway. Waitohi Bridge. [Details]. Invercargill and Mataura Railway. Bridge over Mataura River. [Plan and details]. Proposed station, Dunedin. [Site plan]. Points and crossings. [Details]. Auckland and Mercer Railway. Auckland Station. [Site plan]. Originals are slightly larger than these copies. Quantity: 7 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour laser photocopies, sizes varying from 212 x 297 mm to 255 x 420 mm.

Date: 1901

By: Brett Printing and Publishing Company Ltd; Schmidt, William Shaw Diedrich, 1870-1968; Morice, Louisa Jane Spotswood, 1873-1957

Reference: A-216-007-a

Description: An invitation to Dr C G and Mrs Morice. In the centre top is the royal coat of arms. Left top is a view of Wellington Harbour with Lyttelton Harbour at the right top. Centre left are portraits of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra and centre right are portraits of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall (later George V and Queen Mary). Bottom left is a cavalry soldier with the uniform worn for the South African war, his horse behind him, followed by a view of Auckland Harbour, the arms of New Zealand, a view of Port Chalmers and a Maori chief with Mount Taranaki behind him Extended Title - Supplement to Brett's Christmas Annual, Dec. 1, 1922 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph glued to card, 284 x 360 mm

Date: [ca 1900, ca 1920s-1940s]

By: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014

Reference: PA-Group-00795

Description: Glass negatives of a range of subjects taken by an unidentified photographer chiefly circa 1920s and circa 1940s, but also two taken circa 1900s. Images fall into three broad groups: - Unidentified portraits (including the two taken circa 1900s) - Staff and factory floor images taken at suit manufacturer J A Wilkinson & Son Ltd, possibly in Wellington circa 1940s - Scenes in Wellington, and scenes and buildings in Auckland and Wellington Specific items show a table of wedding gifts, the ship 'TSS Wahine' with a damaged bow at Pipitea Wharf, Wellington, in June 1936, a group outside a meeting house circa 1920s, an unidentified building decorated with ships wheel motifs, a significant ceremony outside an unidentified building under construction circa 1920s, Auckland University clock tower circa 1920s, Auckland Railway Station, and Oriental Bay marina, Wellington. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 28 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negatives, 4.75 x 6.5 inches, and 6.5 x 8.5 inches Provenance: Negatives were found in a Wellington house, possibly in Karori.

Date: 1880 - 1910

By: Wilson, A, active 1880s-1900s

Reference: C-018-007

Description: Shows the railway stationl, a small building on the left, with enormous sections of kauri trunks on the land in front. An inset detail shows a timber carriage. Possibly an original for a book illustration Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - A. Wilson in ink; 2 1907 in pencil; also bottom right, title in ink Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen drawing on card, 299 x 435 mm

Date: 1930 - 1939

By: New Zealand Railways

Reference: Eph-A-RAIL-1930s

Description: Includes: 1930s?: New Zealand Railways Publicity Branch. See New Zealand by rail [folded pamphlet 1930s?] Here is the cost of railage on Gibraltar Board to your station [1930s?] New Zealand Railways: N.Z.R. Q 86972. Hire of cushion 1/-. The cushion is not to be removed from carriage. P - 49 [ca 1930?] 1930: New Zealand Railways. Cruising in New Zealand by rail; special car for private parties [ca 1930] The new Auckland Railway Station. Opening ceremony, 24 November 1930. Programme (2 copies) 1932: Stratford Main Trunk Railway, linked by bands of steel. Banquet held at Stratford to celebrate the completion of the Stratford Main Trunk Railway, 7th November 1932. Menu and toast list (2 copies) Official opening Stratford Taumaranui Railway Line by Rt Hon G W Forbes, at Heao on Monday November 7th 1932. Programme / luncheon menu / toast list. 1933: Greetings. The Government Railways Board and the management of the Railways Department present the season's compliments ... New Zealand 1933-34. Open the window of 1934 to Railway prosperity (Greeting card with operable slide-down carriage window on inside spread) 1934: Laying the foundation stone of the new Government Railway-station, Wellington, New Zealand by H.R.H. The Duke of Gloucester. 17th December 1934. Programme (2 copies), invitation and ticket 1936: Railway bus tour; charm of Wellington. 30 miles, 3 hours, 5/- [1936] Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants. ASRS jubilee dinner, Royal Oak Hotel, March 11th 1936. Souvenir menu 1937: Wellington new station official opening, 19th June 1937. Invitation 1938: New Zealand Railways. Inauguration of electric multiple unit service, Wellington-Johnsonville line, 2nd July, 1938. [Invitation]. New Zealand Railways. Publicity Branch. Multiple-unit electric train and road motor services. Souvenir time-table, Wellington-Ngaio-Khandallah-Johnsonville, timetable operating from 4th July 1938 Service. The Railway Department's Refreshment Branch gives to all passengers a full measure of service with high-class meals ... Menu. Enjoy breakfast in the Railway Restaurant, Wellington Station. 20,000/11/38 - 14733 [1938] New Zealand Railways Publicity Branch. Your own railway : for New Zealand children a story showing how fairy tales become real. [1938] 1939: Service. The Railway Department's Refreshment Branch gives to all passengers a full measure of service with high-class meals ... Menu. Enjoy breakfast in the Railway Dining-rooms, Christchurch. CH-B. 14029-39 [1939] New Zealand Railways. Christmas and New Year 1939-40. Holiday trains and road motors [Timetable] Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, sizes varying under 250 mm

Date: 1909

Reference: MapColl-832.1291gme/1909/Acc.45729

Description: Plan of Auckland station yard showing proposed Harbour Board land and road land to be taken for railway purposes. The plan is bounded by Queen Street on the left hand side and Alpha and Manukau Roads and Selwyn Terrace on the right hand side of the plan. Additional Streets identified are Quay Street, Kings Drive, Customs House Street, Breakwater Road and Beach Road. The Waitamata Harbour is shown and a coloured area named W & G Winstone. The proposed deviation of King's Drive is also shown. The plan also contains three pencil annotations. The letters EEJ and 2 4 09 is stamped in the top right hand corner of the plan with a square stamp immediately below that showing: N.Z.R.; Chief Engineer's Office; Tracing No.7215; Date:1-4-09. The bottom right hand corner shows the word Original and the number 17147. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and water colour on medium weight light brown coloured paper, Scale[1:1 584], 36.2 x 90 cm.

Date: [ca 1960s-1980s]

From: New Zealand Centre for Photography :Photographs

By: Hoy, Douglas George, 1937-1992

Reference: PAColl-9528-2

Description: Photographs of railway scenes taken by Douglas George Hoy. Includes photographs of Wellington Harbour Board buildings and vessels, United Kingdom trip in 1980, and photographs of friends, pets and various artistic photographs. Accompanying material - Negative index Quantity: 65 b&w original photographic print(s). 11 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1998-1999

From: Holman, Dinah, 1938- :Photographs of New Zealand buildings relating to heritage surveys

Reference: PAColl-9989-02

Description: Photographs of buildings and countryside in Rodney District, Auckland Region, New Zealand. Places include Taupaki, Kumeu, Port Albert, and rural areas around Wellsford. Buildings depicted include - Houses. Sheds. Halls. Railway stations. A Masonic lodge. A railway line. Churches. Farm buildings. Wool sheds. School buildings. A sports stand. A war memorial. Briges. Shops. A cemetery. Quantity: 149 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1901

By: Brett Printing and Publishing Company Ltd; Schmidt, William Shaw Diedrich, 1870-1968

Reference: A-216-007-b

Description: A blank invitation. In the centre top is the royal coat of arms. Left top is a view of Wellington Harbour with Lyttelton Harbour at the right top. Centre left are portraits of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra and centre right are portraits of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall (later George V and Queen Mary). Bottom left is a cavalry soldier with the uniform worn for the South African war, his horse behind him, followed by a view of Auckland Harbour, the arms of New Zealand, a view of Port Chalmers and a Maori chief with Mount Taranaki behind him Extended Title - Supplement to Brett's Christmas Annual, Dec. 1, 1922 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph glued to card, 284 x 360 mm Provenance: Donation: Mrs Arthurs, 10 February 1954

Date: [Between 1933 and 1938]

By: Watt, Philip Chetwoode, 1876-1940

Reference: PA1-o-515

Description: Detailed photographs of the deign and construction of the Wellington Railway Station, from the foundations with special earthquake strengthening to the completed building, both external and interior. There are a few photographs at the end of the album showing one each of the Auckland Railway Station, the foundations of the Hotel Waterloo in Wellington, and the 2YA building; the 710' high mast for 2YA Radio Station; and erection of the Ford Building. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album covered with two sheets of cardboard tied with green tape; 20.5 x 30.5 cm

Date: [ca 1860-1914]

By: Field, William Hughes, 1861-1944

Reference: PAColl-0341

Description: Photographs of various scenes: two of the convoy in Wellington Harbour in October 1914 (one from Field album VIII); the Field children outside a dilapidated house in Waikanae; a photographed captioned "mother and Peter" of two women, four children and a man in the mouth of Karori tunnel; a train passing through Te Aroha (Field album V); Auckland from the north shore (Field Album V); Sir George Grey's house at Momona Bay, Kawau (Field album IX); an excursion train meeting a river boat (Field Album XV); a house next to a small lake captioned New Plymouth (Field album IX); two of the visit by the Duke and Duchess of York in 1901 (one from Field Album VI); Mrs Edward and her mother on the verandah of their house in Khandallah; a post card of the station at Manakau; farm horses in harness eating at a trough (Field Album XV); Maori men, women and children around a meeting house for a tangi in Manaia, Coromandel - above the door is written Rahera Titia (Field Album V); Hot Springs Hotel beside the lake at Waiwera (Field Album V); looking down the Waimakariri from what is now Glacier Hotel at an old homestead and two of Mitre Peak and Milford Sound (stuck to the same piece of card Field Album IX); large two storey house (Field Album XVIII); and a panorama of Dunedin showing Rattray Street in the foreground and the wharves behind (Field Album VIII). Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/2-115913 to 115936 Quantity: 42 b&w original negative(s). 25 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1901

By: Brett Printing and Publishing Company Ltd; Schmidt, William Shaw Diedrich, 1870-1968

Reference: A-216-007

Description: An invitation to Mr A. A. Corrigan. In the centre top is the royal coat of arms. Left top is a view of Wellington Harbour with Lyttelton Harbour at the right top. Centre left are portraits of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra and centre right are portraits of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall (later George V and Queen Mary). Bottom left is a cavalry soldier with the uniform worn for the South African war, his horse behind him, followed by a view of Auckland Harbour, the arms of New Zealand, a view of Port Chalmers and a Maori chief with Mount Taranaki behind him Extended Title - Supplement to Brett's Christmas Annual, Dec. 1, 1922 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph glued to card, 284 x 360 mm Provenance: Donation: Mr D. W. Corrigan, 4 April 1962

Date: [Circa 1931]

By: New Zealand Railways; Hinge, Leslie, 1868-1942; Ryan, Thomas, 1864-1927; Gilmour, John Henry, 1892-1951; Andrew, Stanley Polkinghorne, 1878-1964

Reference: PA1-f-056

Description: Mainly publicity photographs for New Zealand Railways, most taken by unidentified photographers, though there are several portraits taken by S P Andrew (Stanley Polkingorne Andrew); also a number of images near the beginning of the album have a pencilled note which says "Mr Hinge's negative". There are a number of photographs of advertisements and posters for New Zealand Railways, including one promoting safety at railway crossings. In this scene a young woman is holding up a banner "STOP! Safety first", wearing a hat labelled "Stop", a sash labelled "Safety first" and wearing a skirt with the image of a car crash at a railway crossing. At the end of the album there are several photographs of postage stamps. Several photographs were taken at the opening of the Auckland Railway Station. Then a number show luggage or goods being loaded onto the interislander ferry; and near the back of the album a series showing racehorses, with one view of a horse being lifted onto a ship in a crate. A large section shows the Wellington rally for Lord and Lady Baden-Powell at the Basin Reserve in 1931, and later in the album views of them laying a wreath at the Citizen's War memorial (Cenotaph). Pages 38-43 contain 20 black and white photographs of water colour paintings by Thomas Ryan, from the 1890s. The subjects are mostly lakes and mountains in the South Island, including Lakes Mahinapua, Wakatipu, Te Anau, Wanaka and Manapouri; Teremakau River, Bealey River, Teremakau River and Clinton Valley; and in the North Island Lakes Rotorua and Tikitapu, and two of the Uruwera. On page 64 there is a photograph of a barred window. In front there is an ice-axe, a pair of skis, a fishing rod, 2 rifles, and a lidded straw picnic basket. It seems to have been used as the basis for a New Zealand Railways poster advertising outdoor life in New Zealand (see p 65). There are a number of pages of portraits of children, several of which have been formed into montages of images. None of these are identified. Some portraits of dignitaries involved with New Zealand Railways are identified with surname, but many are not identified at all. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, green spine, entitled `Miscellaneous Book C2'; 36 x 52 cm

Date: ca 1890's

From: Richardson collection :Photographs of Auckland

Reference: 1/2-010420

Description: Print only Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: ca 1890's

From: Richardson collection :Photographs of Auckland

Reference: 1/2-010421

Description: Print only Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 31 Jan 2014

From: Oettli, Max Christian, 1947-: Photographs of New Zealand scenes

Reference: PADL-001319

Description: Electronic scans of black and white photographs showing scenes of departure taken on different modes of transport. Taken 1969-1974 by Max Oettli. Includes rail transport related photographs: a close up view of three train tail lights, passengers in the ticket lounge, two Samoan taxi drivers seated on bench, and passengers boarding a Silver Fern railcar, Auckland Railway Station; and a station guard on Frankton Junction station (taken though train window while moving). Includes scenes taken onboard a ferry boat in the Bay of Islands showing passengers in steerage. Includes a photograph of a Tongan man at Nandi Airport, Fiji, wearing a short ta'ovala (woven mat) and tupenu, and carrying a transistor radio. Arrangement: Files were delivered to the Library within a folder titled 'NZ 1967-75 2013 series' and subfolder 'Airports, ports, departures' Quantity: 9 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s).