Looking down Main Street West, Church Street West is on the far left, with All Saints Church on on side and the Grand Hotel on the other corner. The Coles building is on the corner of Main Street West and the Square. Built in 1903, it was pulled d...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          July 27, 1939

This plan is titled, "Plan of Subdivision of Parts Suburban Sections 175 & 176 Town of Palmerston North Block XI Kajranga S.D."

Visible roads include Karina Terrace, Vogel Street, Main Street, Napier Road.

Creator:      H. R. Farquhar [Surveyor]
Place:          Karina Terrace; Vogel Street; Main Street; Napier Road;
Date:          March 1925

This plan is titled, "Plan of Subdivision of part of Section 168, Town of Palmerston North, Block XI, Kairanga S.D."

Visible roads include Main Street, Kauri Street, Ruahine Street, Alfred Street.

Creator:      O. J. Dolan [Surveyor]
Place:          Main Street; Kauri Street; Ruahine Street; Alfred Street
Date:          July 1930

Two railway cottages are visible on the left. The Associated Bottlers Company (ABC) depot is on the right. The ABC was a subsidiary of New Zealand Breweries and operated a beer bottle recycling depot in the good yards. After sorting, the bottle w...

Date:          1971 to 1974

This view of Te Marae o Hine, The Square, was photographed by a member of PNCC waterworks staff. Note the train passing through The Square.

Creator:      A. Kelt
Date:          circa 1952

This slide was likely created by David Evans of the City Council's Planning Office. M D (David) Evans was a planning assistant from 1955 to 1968, Deputy City Planner from 1968 to 1978 and Senior Planning Officer (Design and Development) from 1978-...

Creator:      D. Evans
Place:          Main Street, Palmerston North
Date:          196X/197X

Manawatu Photorama was published between 1959 and 1964 by Frank Goldingham. It featured social occasions, sports events and city events and perfomances photographed both by Mr. Goldingham and contributing photographers.

Creator:      Frank Goldingham
Date:          September 1960

Plan showing the layout of the yards, between West Street and The Square. The railway station and yards were in Main Street from 1890 to 1964, when all services finally moved to the Tremaine Avenue site on the edge of Palmerston North. Much of thi...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Main Street, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1948

A plan showing the railway line running through the centre of The Square, and other features.

Creator:      Palmerston North City Council
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          September 23, 1953

This viaduct is 258 feet high. It was built by Andersons Ltd, at a cost of £53,369, out of fabricated steel. It was built to take the the 11.5 axle load of the "X" class engine, and therefore had to be strengthened before the "K", with its 14.5 t...

Creator:      Frederick Radcliffe
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1905

Still with the railway line going through centre of town.

Place:          The Square
Date:          1963

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 22 August 1961 "Mr. B.L. Campbell, of Palmerston North, a post-primary school metal work instructor at the Queen Elizabeth Technical College, whose trade is his hobby, h...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          August 22, 1961

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 13 January 1961: "Contractors constructing the new bridge for Milson Line have been delayed by having to excavate a large amount of concrete from the site of the old bri...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Milson Line, Palmerston North
Date:          January 13, 1961

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 25 June 1958, page 8: "The days of the life of the wooden structure in this photograph are numbered. The bridge is that used by railway traffic and is situated south of ...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Longburn
Date:          June 25, 1958

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 05 September 1961 "This locomotive, mounted on its own concrete dais at Linton Camp, is the last steam locomotive operated by the Corps of the Royal New Zealand Engineer...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Linton Camp, Linton
Date:          September 5, 1961

Photo taken by Terry Finnerty, photographer. Clearly shows the railway track and two roads which run parallel on each side of it through The Square.

Fitzherbert Avenue traffic could also drive into and through the Square at this time. In 1964, t...

Creator:      Terry Finnerty
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1958

A souvenir programme for the opening ceremony of the New Longburn Railway Bridge and Deviation. Constructed between 1958 and 1960, the new steel and reinforced-concrete bridge replaced an earlier wooden rail bridge over the Manawatū which dated fr...

Creator:      New Zealand Railways
Date:          October 18, 1960

This is a replica of a steam locomotive called "Palmerston" which served the Foxton-Palmerston North line. It was built in 1872 in Dunedin and shipped to Foxton. It is considered to be the first locomotive entirely made in the country (previous...

Creator:      Benjamin Foster
Place:          Corner of Main St and Avenue Rd, Foxton
Date:          July 6, 2020

Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip visited Palmerston North as part of their New Zealand tour. Here the train stops in The Square. Note the crown decoration on top of the Band Rotunda.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          January 7, 1954 to January 8, 1954

Work men removing the railway tracks from the Square. The last train went through the Square in June of 1964 and later that month work men started to remove track joints and lines from the Square. Milson Railway Station opened on 21 October 1963. ...

Creator:      Colin Rush
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          1964

The Square Circular was Palmerston North City Council's monthly community publication, informing Palmerstonians of PNCC initiatives, activites, and events. This month's issue includes: Esplanade scenic railway; Grant Smith; waste free parenting; c...

Creator:      Palmerston North City Council
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          August 2015

Pictured is the platform of the Ashhurst Railway Station, looking northward. 

The station once featured numerous facilities one would expect at a railway station. These were demolished after 1980 and replaced with a very small and v...

Creator:      Benjamin Foster
Place:          -40.297476, 175.750419
Date:          January 2021

A very early view of The Square, looking towards Rangitikei Street.

Creator:      Unknown
Date:          1878

People viewing the de-railment that took place between the Makerua Railway Station and the railway crossing at the junction of the present Makerua-Rangitāne Road and Highway 57. The house in the background was Yorston’s residence.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1915

The Wellington Manawatu Railway Company Limited constructed the rail line between Wellington and Palmerston, opened in 1886, and ran it until they sold it to the Government in 1908.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Manawatu
Date:          circa 1890 to circa 1899

The Wellington Manawatu Railway Company Limited constructed the rail line between Wellington and Palmerston, Which opened in 1886. The company ran the line until they sold it to the Government in 1908.

Also contains a sketch map of New Zealand sh...

Creator:      A Falkner for Wellington & Manawatu Railway Company
Place:          Lower North Island
Date:          1882

Three maps pasted onto one sheet.

1. Map of New Zealand, with some general statistics and a description of the country.


2. "Thorndon Ward, City of Wellington, N.Z., Shewing Locality of Reclamation to be made by the Wellington & Manawatu Railway C...

Creator:      Wellington & Manawatu Railway Company
Place:          Lower North Island
Date:          1882 to 1887

This photograph shows the retrieval of the derailed freight engine KA 951, derailed into the Manawatu Gorge. The accident happened 20 August 1946. Two of the three crewmen were killed - B. Craighead and the fireman, R. Hoskins, while the guard, R ...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          The Gorge, Manawatu
Date:          1946

This photograph shows the view up Main Street East, along the railway line that once ran through The Square. It was probably taken from the top of the Hopwood Clock Tower (completed in 1957). A railway service between Wellington and Palmerston Nor...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Main Street, Palmerston North
Date:          since 1956

The accompanying information with this photograph says ‘taken from grandmother’s flat - at 487 Main Street [Palmerston North] – to the circus across the road”.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Main Street, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1948