A view of Main Street from the Hopwood Clock Tower during the early 1960s.

The cleared construction site was to be used for Palmerston North's new 3-storey library on the corner of Main Street and The Square, opposite the Post Office. Constructio...

Creator:      Ian Palmer
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa July 1963

Name: The Cutting

Suburb, Milson

The way is named “The Cutting,” a railway term referencing excavation in a land rise in order to lay railway tracks. There is a deep cutting at the rear boundary of this street, on the North Island Main Tr...

Creator:      Heritage Team, Palmerston North City Library
Date:          2025

A film believed to have been taken by Rod Matheson featuring the last train trip through Square, and the demolition of the station and yards over three years. Features some double exposure of Pipe bands and Marching scenes in a parade.

Total Leng...

Creator:      Rod Matheson
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1960s

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 24th December 1965 "Seasons Greetings." [Image taken of the township of Taihape, with the main trunk line at the front of the photograph.]

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Taihape
Date:          December 22, 1965

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 20th February 1963. "These railway employees, Messrs J. Aldridge (surfaceman, left), L. Mudgway (plant operator) and H. H. Dyson (ganger, right), have a long way to go. ...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1963-02-19T00:00:00+00:00

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 17 September, 1959. "At present railway workers are relaying a portion of the Main Trunk line between Main Street East and Princess Street. They are laying 504ft a day....

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1959-09-17T00:00:00+00:00

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 8 January, 1964. "A daily task carried out at the old Palmerston North railway yards is the oiling of points. Doing the job here is Mr L. J. Castle."

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1964-01-07T00:00:00+00:00

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 23 May 1958, page 10: "The Ministers of Education and Housing, Mr. Skoglund and Mr. Fox, take time on a tour of the city yesterday to inspect the Milson deviation railwa...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Cloverlea, Palmerston North
Date:          May 23, 1958

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 13 September 1958: "This strange looking vehicle is a Swiss made Matisa railway track recording car which was in the Palmerston North yards testing yesterday. Weighing n...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Main Street, Palmerston North
Date:          September 13, 1958

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

A view of of the centre of The Square looking south down Main Street towards the railway yards. Hopwood Clocktower and the war memorial are in the foreground.

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

The township of Bunnythorpe lies within the original Manchester Block, purchased from the New Zealand Government by the Colonist's' Land and Loan Corporation Ltd in 1869. A Bunnythorpe railway station was first built in 1875. It was replaced by th...

Creator:      R E Clevely
Place:          Manawatu
Date:          1959