More Info →"Injured In Fall Into Old Subway"

Description

This image was taken for a story that ran in the Manawatū Evening Standard on 19 January, 1967. “A man was seriously injured on Saturday evening when he fell 10ft into the old subway on the disused railway land. He is Mr R. G. Wallace, aged 22, of Kent Terrace, Palmerston North.”

From 1890 a level railway crossing ran across the Main Street end of Pitt Street. In 1903 this section was closed to through traffic and accessed via a pedestrian subway constructed under the railway lines.

The subway was blocked up in 1965 when trains ceased travelling through the city centre.

Identification

Object type

Image

Archive

Manawatū Evening Standard Negative Collection

Relation

2017-20

Date

January 19, 1967

Digitisation ID

2021N_2017-20_R889_001

Format

B&W negative