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

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 02 September 1960 "This group of railway employees were responsible for the laying of the decking and the track across the new railway bridge at Longburn. Their job is n...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Longburn, Manawatu
Date:          1960-09-02T00:00:00+00:00

There was a week of celebratory activities to mark Palmerston North's beginning as a Borough in 1877. On Wednesday 19 March a scene depicted the arrival of the first train from Wellington at the site of the original train station in The Square. Sh...

Creator:      W W Stewart
Place:          Main Street, Palmerston North
Date:          March 19, 1952