The New Zealand Journal

  New Zealand Railways travel poster, late 1940s So how will you get to Caroline Bay, Timaru for your summer holidays? Why by steam locomot...

Group on Winiata railway station, near Taihape, circa 1910. Unidentified photographer.  Alexander Turnbull Library   Maori Farm at Wini...

Now that KiwiRail has reintroduced a 2 minute stop at Taihape on the North Island Main Trunk Line (NIMT), the former means of dropping off ...

A man on a jigger on the approach to the Mataroa Tunnel, near Taihape.  Railway work camp in left background, 1906. Photo: Albert Percy Go...

On 19 October 2009, KiwiRail announced that Taihape was being placed back on the list of stops on the Overlander passenger train's sched...

Reid Family outside home. George Edward Reid, Annie Reid, and children Myrtle and George, alongside a hut on Toe Toe Road, Taihape, circa 1...

  Main or Hautapu Street?, Taihape, 1907-08, about the time the North Island Main Trunk line  was completed. Photo: Frederick George Radcl...

  Taihape Railway Station with Refreshment Rooms on right,  North Island Main Trunk Line, circa 1910. Photo:  Frederick George Radcliffe....

Timespanner had this video on her blog recently. Just had to add it here. Peter Cape's song "Taumarunui on the Main Trunk Line...

Train About to Depart Lyttelton Railway Station for Christchurch, circa 1916. Before Annie could do any shopping (see previous post), she ha...

"The immigrants ... are a healthy, intelligent class of persons, and are likely in every respect to form good colonists." The Star...

Richard Arthur Haydon was born in Chudleigh, Devon, England about 1863 but would travel to the other side of the globe as a young man to liv...

The Hanmer coach leaving Culverden, early 1900s. The sender writes that motorcars have replaced the coach, postmarked 1913. Before the railw...

Cass , circa 1936, by Rita Angus. courtesy of the Rita Angus estate & the Christchurch City Art Gallery . Transcript of an introduction...

The North Island Main Trunk Line (NIMT), the backbone of New Zealand Railways in the North Island turns 100 years old on August 7. The...