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Linton Defence Rifle Club members.

Team from the Linton Defence Rifle Club, who competed at Trentham as part of the National Rifle Associations 1928 tournament.
Joseph Henry Griffiths at the right of the picture.
Photo taken by Josie Griffiths, with her Box Brownie camer...

Place:          Palmerston North.
Date:          1928

Snow at a Train Station

This image is believed to have been taken by Palmerston North Engineer Edwin Daniel Berry or his son Frank. Unfortunately, the place and context are yet to be identified but may be related to a trip taken by Frank Berry to Franz Joseph Glacier in ...

Creator:      Berry Family
Date:          1940s

Train #661

This image is believed to have been taken by Palmerston North Engineer Frank (Frances Leslie) Berry.

Creator:      Berry Family
Place:          Main Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1910s

Train through Main Street west

This image is believed to have been taken by Palmerston North Engineer Frank (Frances Leslie) Berry.

Visible businesses in background include "Mercer and Lewin, hairdresser and tobacconists, Main Street West, have full stocks of goods suitable fo...

Creator:      Berry Family
Place:          Main Street West, Palmerston North
Date:          1916 to 1918

Train on Main Street - The 614

This image is believed to have been taken by Palmerston North Engineer Frank (Frances Leslie) Berry and depicts the 614 train on the Main Street East line.

Creator:      Berry Family
Date:          1910s

Off to Plimmerton for Council Picnic

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

Makatote Viaduct, Main Trunk Line

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

Back Issues: The MCC and the cricketing engine driver

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

"Scene of Gorge Rail Stoppage"

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

"First Meal in 16 Hours" After Train Derailment

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

Early Foxton to Palmerston North locomotive on display in Greymouth

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

"Palmerston" Replica - The World's First All-NZ-Made Locomotive, Foxton

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

Mrs Sara Aitchison (née Macaulay)

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

Logging Train

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

The Square and Clock Tower

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

Ashhurst Railway Station platform

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

Miranui Flaxmill, near Shannon

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

Locomotive hauling flax to Miranui Flaxmill, near Shannon

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

Last train through The Square

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

Railway Worker's Hut, Palmerston North

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

Souvenir ticket for last excursion train to leave Palmerston North Main Street Station

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

One of the Last Trains through the Square, Palmerston North

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

Dutch Railway Workers, Palmerston North Railway Yard

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

"Cleaning Points", Palmerston North Railway Yard

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

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