This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 02 February 1958, page 6: "About 300 persons travelled by train to Plimmerton today for the City Council picnic. Here is seen a group awaiting the departure of the train."
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: February 1, 1958
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
"A film believed to have been taken by Rod Matheson.
00:00 - 4:15 - 'City of Wheels'
4:16 - 815 - Family images. The film cannister index reads: ""Rachel, Judy. Tony, 277 College Street, the Clothiers, Bill Davis, Jim Hollis, Cat Mercer, Moving ...
Creator: Rod Matheson
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1960s
Old Smokey was a static, coin-operated train located at the Pioneer Village Shopping Centre.
Date: circa 1969
Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. A detailed account and description of a cricket game in Palmerston North, 1930. The Manawatū team played the touring Marylebone Cricket Club from England. The local team inclu...
Creator: Murray Brown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: June 25, 2022
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 21 July 1958, page 6: "This large slip which occurred in the Manawatu Gorge yesterday is likely to hold up regular rail traffic from the East Coast until tomorrow."
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Manawatū Gorge
Date: July 21, 1958
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 08 July 1961 "Two tired and hungry passengers from the derailed Limited Express began to show interest in the world as the relief train pulled into Palmerston North shor...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: July 8, 1961
The ‘Skunk and the ‘Wallaby’ were two Class ‘A’, 8-tonne locomotives built by E. W. Mills at the Lion Foundry in Wellington with outside Stephenson valve gear. They were the first locomotives to run a scheduled service between Palmerston North and...
Creator: R T Curry
Place: West Coast
Date: February 7, 1973
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
The bride was formerly Sara Macaulay. See also 2013N_Pi527_006843, 2013N_Pi524_006841, 2007N_Pi525_PEO_1210,
Creator: Lewis Studio Ltd
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1922
Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip departing from Main Street, Palmerston North on board the Royal Train for an official visit to Whanganui.
Creator: Unknown
Date: January 1954
Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip departing from Main Street, Palmerston North on board the Royal Train for an official visit to Whanganui.
Creator: Unknown
Date: January 1954
A traction engine hauling felled trees. This traction engine [ see 2014N_Stu4_009085] has been temporarily converted to run on rails. The large back wheels have been removed and a chain taken from the drive gear via chain to the wheels of the r...
Creator: Charles E. Wildbore
Place: Pohangina
Date: circa 1910
View of The Square showing the clock tower with All Saints in the background. Note the train travelling through The Square
Place: Palmerston North
Date: March 1964
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
The Miranui Flaxmill was owned by A & L Seifert Flax Company Ltd and opened in November 1907. This view of the Makerua Swamp area shows a steam driven tram on the tracks, to deliver a load of flax to the mill.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Shannon, Horowhenua Region
Date: circa 1907
The Miranui Flaxmill was owned by A & L Seifert Company Ltd, and opened in 1907. This 5 ton locomotive crosses the bridge over the Tokomaru Stream as it brings green flax to the mill. The mill was about half a mile away to the left of the photogra...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Tokomaru Stream, Horowhenua Region
Date: circa 1907
The underground pedestrian access can be seen in the foreground.
Creator: Muir and Moodie
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1905
One of the last, special, excursion trains to go through The Square in either March or June 1964. The Milson deviation had been opened in 1960 and the new Railway Station in 1963, removing the need for trains to travel through the centre of the ci...
Creator: Malcolm Rickard
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1964
A very early view of The Square, looking towards Rangitikei Street.
Creator: Unknown
Date: 1878
Andre Zentveld, railway worker, stands outside one of the single men's huts provided by the Railway yards as accommodation.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1952
A ticket issued by the New Zealand Railways, for the last excursion train, which left the Main Street Railway Station and ran, via Roslyn and Longburn, back again, 1 June 1964. The trip was arranged by the Lions Club of Palmerston North to mark th...
Creator: New Zealand Railways
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: June 1, 1964
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
Shown here are Dutch migrants, who arrived on the "Sibajick to Wellington" to work under contract to the New Zealand Railways, in order to help construct the Milson Railway deviation, that took the train station, yards and track out of the centre ...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1952
At the time of this photograph the Palmerston North railway station and yards were in Main Street, just down from The Square. Percy Humpries (left) and Andre Zentveld are show here 'cleaning the points' in the Palmerston North railway yard near th...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1953
The Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company was a private railway company that built, owned and operated the line between Thorndon in Wellington and Longburn, near Palmerston North in the Manawatu, between 1881 and 1908. New Zealand Railways Photo...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Otaki, Horowhenua Region
Date: circa 1888
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
The Miranui Flaxmill was owned by A & L Seifert Company Ltd, and opened in 1907. This 5 ton locomotive was used to haul the trucks of flax from the swamp to the mill. The locomotive did not prove successful on swamp ground and was replaced by horses.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Tokomaru, Horowhenua Region
Date: 1907
This photograph was taken in front of the old Foxton Station, which was moved up to Palmerston North and placed alongside the Goods Office to function as an Outwards Goods Office. The Foxton line to Palmerston North began in 1871 as a wooden tramw...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Foxton, Horowhenua Region
Date: 1964
The Main Street Station served Palmerston North from 1890 - 1963. This photograph shows a train waiting at the station, while an engine shunts carriages nearby. to the left can be seen businesses on George Street and in the distance on the left is...
Creator: K H Shea
Place: Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1930 to circa 1940