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
Fireman Terry Jowett in a BB class locomotive 626 in the Palmerston North railway yards.
Creator: Roland Penhall
Place: Palmerston North
Date: October 1963 to December 1963
BB class locomotive number 629 in the Palmerston North railway yards.
Creator: Roland Penhall
Place: Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: September 1963
Workers attending to BB class locomotive 626 that had derailed by the turntable in the Palmerston North railway yards.
Creator: Roland Penhall
Place: Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: November 1963 to December 1963
AB class engine number 737 in the Palmerston North railway yards.
Creator: Roland Penhall
Place: Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: May 1964
Locomotive Trainee Maurice Quinn standing beside a J class locomotive 1238 in the Palmerston North railway yards.
Creator: Roland Penhall
Place: Palmerston North
Date: December 1963 to January 1964
A close up view of the driving wheels on an unidentified steam engine in the Palmerston North railway yards.
Creator: Roland Penhall
Place: Palmerston North
Date: May 1964
BB class engine number 629 at the Palmerston North railway yards.
Creator: Roland Penhall
Place: Palmerston North
Date: October 1964 to November 1964
A close up view of the smokebox on a BB class locomotive.
Creator: Roland Penhall
Place: Palmerston North
Date: April 1964
J class engine 1227 next to coal wagons in the Palmerston North railway yards.
Creator: Roland Penhall
Place: Palmerston North
Date: February 1964
The cab and tender (coal car) of J class locomotive 1238. The driver is unidentified.
Creator: Roland Penhall
Place: Palmerston North
Date: October 1963 to November 1963
AB class engine 737 next to a coal pile in the Palmerston North railway yards.
Creator: Roland Penhall
Place: Palmerston North
Date: February 1964
KA class engine number 930 at the Palmerston North railway yards.
Creator: Roland Penhall
Place: Palmerston North
Date: October 1964 to November 1964
J class engine number 1227 and tender (coal car) 1279 at the Palmerston North railway yards.
Creator: Roland Penhall
Place: Palmerston North
Date: March 1965 to May 1965
A view of the Palmerston North railway yards from the top of a KA class locomotive.
Creator: Roland Penhall
Place: Palmerston North
Date: March 1964
KA class engine number 960 at the Palmerston North railway yards.
Creator: Roland Penhall
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa August 1963 to circa August 1964
Locomotives - BB630, AB819, J1231 and KA964 - in the Palmerston North Railway Yards.
Creator: Roland Penhall
Place: Palmerston North
Date: May 1964
An old BB class alongside J and KA class locomotives (numbered 1231 and 964 respectively) at the Palmerston North railway yards.
Creator: Roland Penhall
Place: Palmerston North
Date: May 1964
Close-up view of a KA class locomotive motion in the Palmerston North railway yards.
Creator: Roland Penhall
Place: Palmerston North
Date: April 1964
Mike Nelson posing with KA class engine number 952 by the turntable in the Palmerston North railway yards.
Creator: Roland Penhall
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1964 to circa 1965
A view of the Palmerston North railway yards from the top of a BB class locomotive.
Creator: Roland Penhall
Place: Palmerston North
Date: March 1964
J class engine number 1231 in the Palmerston North railway yards.
Creator: Roland Penhall
Place: Palmerston North
Date: May 1964
Close-up view of the motion of J class locomotive 1231 in the Palmerston North railway yards.
Creator: Roland Penhall
Place: Palmerston North
Date: April 1964
A view of the Palmerston North railway yards from the top of a AB class locomotive.
Creator: Roland Penhall
Place: Palmerston North
Date: March 1964
Close-up view of the drivers and motion of a KA class locomotive in the Palmerston North railway yards.
Creator: Roland Penhall
Place: Palmerston North
Date: March 1964
There was a week of celebratory activities to mark Palmerston North's beginning as a Borough in 1877. On Wednesday 19 March one of the events was a scene depicting the arrival of the first train from Wellington at the site of the original train st...
Creator: W W Stewart
Place: Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: March 19, 1952
This photograph looks east towards The Square. In the centre of the photograph is the clock tower of the old Post Office, removed as an earthquake risk in 1942. Quite distinct is the curve in the train line running through The Square. The street t...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Main Street and the Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1937
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: 1956 to open
J class engine number 1226 in the Palmerston North railway yards.
Creator: Roland Penhall
Place: Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: May 1964 to June 1964
AB class locomotive number 819 in the Palmerston North railway yards.
Creator: Roland Penhall
Place: Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: August 1963