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

This image is from a series taken around 1957 that shows a view of The Square from the top of the Hopwood Clock Tower. This one looks down Main Street West, showing the railway yards.

Creator:      C H James
Place:          Main Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1957

This Ka Class locomotive was number 936 and had wheel configuration 4-8-4. The locomotive had the makers number 319/42 and was built by NZR Hutt Valley. It entered service in February 1942 and served until January 1966, when it was written off. Th...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Main Street West, Palmerston North
Date:          1964

This photograph is from a series taken for a story that ran in the Manawatu Evening Standard, February 22 1965 with the caption: "The old railway yards looking south now appear more like a ghost town, with a flourishing growth of weeds."

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Main Street, Palmerston North
Date:          February 1965

This photograph is from a series taken for a story that ran in the Manawatu Evening Standard, February 22 1965 with the caption: "The old railway yards looking south now appear more like a ghost town, with a flourishing growth of weeds." These ima...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Main Street, Palmerston North
Date:          February 1965

This photograph shows the view down Main Street West, 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 N...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1956

The person standing in front of the engine is my Father Harold Stewart and the person on the footplate is his brother David Stewart. Both men were trained at the workshops. They were sons of J T Stewart  the person who surveyed the Manawat...

Creator:      Robert George Stewart
Place:          Feilding
Date:          1906