"Relaying the Main Line' Workers Upgrading the Railway Tracks

Description

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 17 September, 1959. "At present railway workers are relaying a portion of the Main Trunk line between Main Street East and Princess Street. They are laying 504ft a day. The photograph shows a gang of workers starting to take metal from under the sleepers."

Identification

Object type

Image

Archive

Manawatū Evening Standard Negative Collection

Relation

2017-20

Date

September 17, 1959

Digitisation id

2017N_2017-20_015299

Format

B&W negative

Held in

Other