This image was taken for Photorama pictorial magazine and was published in the July 1960 edition.

Caption: “Milson Deviation showing work in progress.”

Creator:      Frank Goldingham
Place:          Milson, Palmerston North
Date:          July 1960

This photograph shows a train coming up to the corner of The Square and Main Street East. The photograph must have been taken before June 1963 as the buildings on this site were demolished that month to make way for the construction of a new libra...

Creator:      Stan Turner
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1963

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 engine shed and yards of the Main Street Station, looking south-west, away from The Square. The Railway Station and yards were situated in Main Street (with the line running through The Square) from the 1890 to the early 1964.

Creator:      Ian Matheson - Palmerston North City Council
Place:          Main Street, Palmerston North
Date:          June 1, 1964

This photo shows Railways General Manager Mr Trevor Hayward (left) and Mr Bob Henare (assistant General Manager) at the scene of the derailment at Milson. Mr Hayward came to the conclusion that the accident was due to the driver speeding as he ent...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Milson, Palmerston North
Date:          1981

The photographer is looking towards The Square. Caption in Miss Smith's book reads: "Copy from back of photo". The old goods shed is opposite the station buildings.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Main Street, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1895

This rail crash occurred two km from the Palmerston North Railway Station on the run to Wellington. The only injuries sustained were those of the driver Mr Mayo while the seven passengers and Wally Wallbutton escaped unscathed. Railways General Ma...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Milson, Palmerston North
Date:          1981

The construction of the South Rangitikei Bridge was the first link in the new rail route of the Mangaweka railway deviation. The 7 kilometre Mangaweka deviation, opened in 1981, was a realignment of the North Island main trunk railway completed in...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Mangaweka, Manawatu
Date:          1975

This rail crash occurred two km from the Palmerston North Railway Station on the run to Wellington. The only injuries sustained were those of the driver Mr Mayo while the seven passengers and Wally Wallbutton escaped unscathed. Railways General Ma...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Milson Line, Palmerston North
Date:          1981

Little is known about this photograph. Written on the bottom of the print is "16L at Waikanae, Wn & Manawatu Ry."

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Waikanae, Kapiti
Date:          circa 1910 to circa 1919

Feilding Railway Station was situated on the Palmerston North to Wanganui Line. There was a large goods shed and water-tanks at the station and the local post and telegraph office was on the railway platform. Six trains passed Feilding daily durin...

Creator:      George W Shailer
Place:          Feilding, Manawatū
Date:          circa 1880 to circa 1885

This major engineering project took nine years to complete at a cost of $17,000,000. Pictured from left: Engine Driver Des Manaton, the PM Mr Muldoon, locomotive assistant Bryce Cameron (above) and guar Mat Pita.

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1981

This photograph was taken from the top of the Hopwood Clock Tower when it was being constructed in 1956.

Creator:      George W Shailer
Place:          Main Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1956

All Saints' Tower is visible in the background of this photograph, which faces north-east towards The Square.

Creator:      G Hope
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1954

Thordon Station was the end point of the Wellington - Manawatu Line. Men are shown waiting for a train.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Wellington
Date:          circa 1900

This photograph looks westward. A goods train is passing through on the right.

Creator:      Alex M Crocket
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1950

Official ceremony held on 3 November 1886 at Otaihanga (between Paraparaumu and Waikanae) for the driving of the last spike of the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company's Wellington (Thorndon) - Longburn railway.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1886

Stairs on the Sledge Track. The track is accessed from the car park at the end of Kahuterawa Road (GRAVEL ROAD), which runs off Old West Road in Palmerston North.

Creator:      Sonya Holm
Place:          Kahuterawa Road, Turitea, Palmerston North
Date:          April 2018

View looking north-east from South Range Road of the Te Rere Hau windfarm and Wharite Peak

Creator:      Evan Greensides
Place:          South Range Road
Date:          May 5, 2018

View of Makomako and Pahiatua region from the Tararua Ranges. Area accessed via South Range Road and DoC bait track. An abandoned Army munitions depot and bunkers are visible at Makomako.

Creator:      Evan Greensides
Place:          South Range Road, Turitea
Date:          May 5, 2018

The timber yard was situated between Main Street East and Broad Street (now Broadway Avenue). The railway line in the foreground was a siding which ran from the railway in Main Street to the flour mill and the sash and door factory. The three-stor...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1900

On the corner of Fitzherbert Avenue is the Occidental Hotel, which was built in 1887 and later burnt down in 1891. When re-built, it took over the shops that had been destroyed in the original fire. On the opposite side of Fitzherbert Avenue is th...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          1906

The old gasworks building was located near the railways sheds on Church Street West, which are possibly the ones on fire here. For a full account of the event, see Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9562, 5 August 1913, Page 5 in an article enti...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          August 1913

This shows the Wellington (Thorndon) Longburn Line, looking north from Shannon station.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Unknown
Date:          circa 1886

This photograph of a train steaming through The Square was taken from the top of the Hopwood Clock Tower when it was being constructed in 1956. A railway service between Wellington and Palmerston North began in 1886. The line ran through the Squar...

Creator:      George W Shailer
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          1956

Work began here in 1936, but stopped during the Depression. It was finally completed in 1959.

Creator:      K H Shea
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1939