More Info →Palmerston North 75th Jubilee engine

Description

There was a week of celebratory activities to mark Palmerston North's beginning as a Borough in 1877. On Wednesday 19 March one of the events was a scene depicting the arrival of the first train from Wellington at the site of the original train station in The Square. Here the engine awaits the event in the rail yards on Main Street.

Identification

Object type

Image

Relation

Public Photograph Collection J 95-2

Date

March 19, 1952

Digitisation ID

2011P_J95-2_005048

Held In

Coolstore