Under construction between 1898-1902. Designed by engineer Peter Seton Hay (1852-1901) in the central part of the North Island Main Trunk (NIMT) railway. Spans a gorge, approximately 2 kms south of Ohingaiti. Historic Place Category 1 (32).
Makohine Viaduct (N.Z.)
AFCM album 2
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.
Makohine Viaduct and Rangitikei River N.Z.
Date: 1923-1928
From: Panoramic photographs of New Zealand taken by R P Moore
By: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948
Reference: PA6-198
Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
McKnight album
Date: [Circa 1919-1923]
By: Lints, William, active 1920s
Reference: PA1-o-320
Description: Album of photographs relating to William Lints' Reveille Company, presented to Beeban Annadale McKnight after her marriage to John McKnight. Beeban Annadale MacDonald performed with the company for five years before her marriage in 1923. Many of the photographs are of her at various sites on the tours around New Zealand. Others include one of Gladys Moncrieff and one of Mae Baird, both selling Reveille programmes in Christchurch. William Lints himself appears in a number of the photographs. Inscriptions: Album page - Reminiscences of Our Reveille, from the producer, to Mrs John McKnight. 1923. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with soft brown card cover; 14 x 19 cm
Rangitikei River showing Makohine Viaduct near Hunterville N.Z. 1923
Date: 1923
From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand
Reference: Pan-0804-F
Description: Panoramic view of the Rangitikei River, showing the Makohine Viaduct, taken by Robert Percy Moore in 1923 Inscriptions: Marginal notes on tape - Rangitikei River Hunterville 4 copies; Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - No. 355A Rangitikei River showing Makohine Viaduct near Hunterville N.Z. 1923 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.8 x 102.4 cm
Godber album 3
Date: Between 1915 and 1916
From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives
Reference: PA1-o-195
Description: Photographs taken by Albert Percy Godber between 1915 and 1916. Many of the images show various aspects of logging in Piha and Karekare. Views include the Piha Tramway, bush railway inclines, scenes of lumbermen cutting down kauri trees and cross-cutting felled trees, transportation of logs by bullock teams and horse-drawn rail wagons, the Piha timber camp and mill and men at everyday activities in camp buildings and in their workmen's huts. Other sections of the album show views of Petone, and Godber's family (his wife, Laura Godber, and two children, Phyllis and William (Bill)); views of the central North Island; farming in the Mendip Hills (Canterbury); and views of Trentham. Other Titles - Title printed on spine - Godber Album 101 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with brown buckram cover; 26 x 30 cm
Bridges Misc
Date: 1993-1996, 1999-2000
From: Thornton, Geoffrey Garth, 1922-2017: Papers and photographs relating to industrial and construction heritage
Reference: PA12-11657
Description: Transparencies of 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. 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 2 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.
Bage album
Date: 1906-1907, and [1940s-1960s?]
Reference: PA1-o-029
Description: Photographs taken on a trip to New Zealand by Dr Freda Bage, 1906-1907; includes several photographs taken by unknown photographers at later dates, most of new Zealand, but one of Rotten Row in London, and one of the Victoria Dock in Sydney. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black hard cover, cream binding tape spine, 230 x 300 mm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-0115. Transfer information - MS-0115.
Willoughby, H J :Postcards of New Zealand scenes
Date: [ca 1910-1925]
By: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925; Northwood, Arthur James, 1880-1949; Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923; Winkelmann, Henry, 1860-1931
Reference: PAColl-0603
Description: Postcards of New Zealand scenes mostly in Waikato and Northland, including the new Awanui Wireless Station at Kaitaia; a steam locomotive on the railway bridge next to Victoria Battery; the interior of Union Battery; view of Whakatane with Regan's Commercial Hotel on the left and a billiards hall at the end of the street; a view over Port Chalmers; Mount Ruapehu covered in snow; a steam ship docking at the wharf at Tauranga; a steam ship pulling away from the wharves at Whangarei; view over Dargaville from Mount Wesley; view down Victoria Street, Dargaville looking towards the railway station; view over Kaitaia from the hotel; sheep mustered next to the Kaeo River; the road and rail bridges over the Waikato River in Hamilton; the Hauraki Pumping Plant in Thames; the extension works at Waihi Grand Junction Battery; the steam ship Clansman at the wharf at Mangonui; the Mokau Coal Mines on the Mokau River with boats moored at the jetty; the school and church at Mangonui; the Topeheihei Falls near Morrinsville; a crowd of people outside the mountain house with Mount Taranaki in the background; Marine Parade, Napier looking north; view over Petone towards Somes Island showing the carriage works and the mill next to the jetty; Glaxo factory at Matamata; a viaduct near Te Kuiti; a train on the Rimutaka Incline; and three views from the Northern Steam Ship Company's annual summer cruise of Port Fitzroy, Whangaroa, and Doubtless Bay. Quantity: 50 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).
Makohine Viaduct and Rangitikei River N.Z.
Date: Between 1923 and 1928
From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand
Reference: Pan-0805-F
Description: Panoramic view of the Makohine Viaduct extreme left centre with the Rangitikei River running across the image. Taken by Robert Percy Moore Inscriptions: Marginal notes on tape - Makohine Viaduct & Rangitikei River N.Z; Marginal notes on negative - cloud; Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Makohine Viaduct and Rangitikei River. No. 355 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.1 x 113.6 cm
Vaniman, Melvin R, 1867-1912 :Makohine viaduct
Date: 1903
From: New Zealand. Ministry of Works :Photographs
By: Vaniman, Melvin, 1866-1912
Reference: PAColl-D-0187
Description: One large mounted print by Melvin R Vaniman of the Makohine viaduct in 1903 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 380 x 565 mm
Shaw, Allen Desmond, 1944- :Photographs of Wellington businesses, the race horse Aurora...
Date: ca 1900
By: Shaw, Allen Desmond, 1944-; Child, Edward George, 1860-1949
Reference: PAColl-4658
Description: Photographs of: a bridge built for a logging tram at the saw mill in Livingstone with a horse pulling a load off it; the construction workers for the Makohine Viaduct; the Gear & Co building on Lambton Quay housing the head office of the Gear Meat Processing and Freezing Co headquarters and Harris's Wholesale and Retail Fruit Mart; Storer, Meek & Co building on Jervois Street; two of the D Benjamin & Co building; and the race horse Aurora taken by E G Child. 1/2-057719 to 057726 Quantity: 7 b&w original photographic print(s).
New Zealand. Ministry of Works :Photographs
Date: 1887-1920
By: New Zealand. Ministry of Works; Christie, John Hellard, 1897-1985
Reference: PAColl-4239
Description: Photographs of the opening of new Waiau Gorge Bridge with a procession of people and carts, Oamaru Post Office, Broken River with a public works camp in the foreground, men in front of Tauranga Post Office, Makohine viaduct, and Rangitaiki River Bridge in Te Teko. Photographers unidentified. Copy negatives of Parnell Post Office and the interior of the Parliament Buildings (original prints not located). Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Prints also at PAColl-D-187 Quantity: 11 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints Transfers: Print at PAColl-6075-54.
James, C S :Postcards of New Zealand
Date: [190-?]
By: Aldersley, David James, 1862-1928; Tibbutt, Alfred George, 1864-1930
Reference: PAColl-7237
Description: Views of the Hapuawhenua and Makohine viaducts on the main trunk line taken by Aldersley; Victoria Street, Hamilton, showing the Bank of New Zealand, the New Zealand Clothing Factory and other shops; High Street and Station Street Dannevirke; St Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Hastings; Whakarewarewa; Marton water supply; International Exhibition in Christchurch; and the Traffic Bridge, Hamilton. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 7 b&w original photographic print(s). 4 colour photo-mechanical print(s). 5 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints, postcards Provenance: Donated by C S James, Wellington, 1966
Photographs of family and Makohine viaduct construction
Date: 1900-1915
From: Rowan, Carol Crispe, 1916-2002:Photographs
By: Burrows, William Crispe, 1878-1943
Reference: PAColl-2765
Description: Photographs of the Burrows family and Makohine viaduct construction, taken ca 1900-1915 by William C Burrows. Includes photograph of man in World War I uniform with a young girl. Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints
Summer tours, North Island
Date: 1934-1938
From: National Council of Young Men's Associations of New Zealand: Collection
By: National Council of YMCAs of New Zealand
Reference: PA1-o-723
Description: YMCA Summer Holiday tours Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Winkelmann, Henry, 1860-1931 : Makohine viaduct, completed Dec 1902
Date: 1902
By: Winkelmann, Henry, 1860-1931
Reference: PA7-60-10
Description: Photograph of the viaduct taken soon after it was completed in Dec 1902 by photographer Henry Winkelmann Inscriptions: Mount recto - bottom centre - Title Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin, 26.5 x 36.5 cm with mount
Christie, John Hellard, 1897-1985 : Papers
Date: [ca 1890-1893], 1972-1975
By: Christie, John Hellard, 1897-1985
Reference: MS-Papers-1463
Description: Papers on the career of Morgan Carkeek as surveyor in the government service; account of fatality at Makohine Tip, Rangitikei Nov 1893; history of building specific roads; unsigned report concerning Wakatipu-Milford Sound road, 1890 Source of title - Supplied title Quantity: 1 folder(s) (10 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed matter (photocopies)
New Zealand scenes
Date: 1933-1951
From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives
By: Kent, Thelma Rene, 1899-1946; Koppel, Irene, 1914-2004
Reference: PAColl-0785-1-142
Description: Photographs published in NZ Free Lance between 1933 and 1951. Includes: Women on horseback in stream at Woodbury, 1946; series of aerial photographs of places (listed in Place Field); wreck of Hydrabad on beach at Waitarere, 1949; man sitting on rock ledge at Rakauroa overlooking road below, 1947; gig from NZ cruiser Bellona taking Captain to visit Admiral Eccles, 1951; Wairakei Hotel in Spring; rocks at Porter's Pass (photographer Thema Kent), undated; Mangatepopo Hut (below the saddle joining Tongariro and Ngauruhoe, 1951 (photographer, Irene Koppel); etc Includes notes by F G Fitzgerald, photographer of Days Bay re transalpine passes and kea Quantity: 23 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints
Parton, L I, fl 1968 :Postcards
Date: [ca 1900-1920]
By: Parton, L I, active 1968; Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923; William Beattie & Company; Aldersley, David James, 1862-1928; Zachariah, Joseph, 1867-1965
Reference: PAColl-4601
Description: Postcards of: the old gun on Mount Victoria; the General Post Office, Wellington lit up with lights for coronation night 1902; parade at Newtown Park on Dominion Day 1907 with the gun from HMS Challenger; Lord Plunket inspecting troops during the Dominion Day parade 1907; spectators at the Dominion Day celebrations in Newtown Park, taken by Zak 1908; battalions marching past on Dominion Day 1907, taken by Zak; the junction of Wills Street and Lambton Quay with the Bank of New Zealand on the left; looking along Lambton Quay towards Willis Street with the Wellington Investment Trustee & Agency Co Ltd on the left; Lambton Quay at the Government Buildings with Quinton's Corner on the right; the Makohine Viaduct on the Main Trunk Railway (taken by Aldersley); the Hapuawhenua Viaduct on the main trunk line taken by Frederick Radcliffe; Raurimu at the foot of the spiral with the railway track in the foreground; the fire on the High Street, Christchurch February 6th 1908; the Salvation Army Rescue and Children's Home, Newtown (in colour); Maori carved house called Takitimu at Martinborough with pakeha visitors outside it; two of the view from Tinakori Hill over to Wellington harbour with Tinakori Road in the foreground and Bolton Street cemetery to the right; a view looking west along Oriental Bay towards St Gerard's Monastery with a billboard for Crescent Tea on a shop to the left; a locomotive going through Ohakune railway station; a fire in Courtenay Place in which six shops were demolished; the interior of the conservatory at Wainoni Park, Christchurch with chrysanthemums; River entrance to Wainoni Park, Christchurch; The lion at Wellington Zoo called 'King Dick', possibly photographed by Zak Studios; Main Street, Ohakune, photographed circa 1 June 1908 by William Beattie and Company; Opening of the Victoria Bowling Club, Wellington, 1908, photographed by Joseph Zachariah. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 21 b&w original photographic print(s) postcards. 16 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) postcards. 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). 1 b&w copy negative(s).
Makohine Stream viaduct
Date: 1897
From: Child, Edward George, 1860-1949 :Photographs of the Ohingaiti district
Reference: 1/2-035465-G
Description: View from the east side approach of the Makohine Stream viaduct, 25 October, 1897. Photograph taken by Edward George Child. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - View from east side approach Makohine Stream viaduct No 4 Oct 25th 1897 E G C & Co Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative