Although initially a government project in 1879, the Wellington and Manawatū Railway (WMR) was completed by a company between 1881 …
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Prior to the completion of the current Wellington Railway station in 1937, Wellington city had many different railways stations. The …
Auckland’s comprehensive motorway network had its genesis in the 1950s. At almost 90 kilometres long, the system contains more than …
Wellington’s Centennial Highway, commemorating the centenary of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, still follows some of its original …
Construction of a road through the Manawatū Gorge was first begun in 1871. The road traverses the rugged terrain between …
This road in the central North Island comprises stone paving and improvements on a track started in the 1880s. When …
Throughout the terrible winter of 1865, labourers began cutting a coach road from Christchurch through the Ōtira Gorge and over …
Housed in the old Maungatapere Dairy Factory buildings 12 kilometres from Whangarei, the Packard Motor Museum is thought to have …
In 2000 a new lane was added to the southern approach to Auckland Harbour Bridge. Making space for the new …
The Wairākei to Taupō section of State Highway 1, opened in 1972, was one of the first parts of that …
Wellington's trolley buses were a characteristic feature of the capital city’s streets. The system's first route opened in 1924 and …
In 1935 five men with picks, shovels and wheelbarrows began piercing the Darran Mountain Range, beginning the creation of a …
Opened in 1978, the Kaimai tunnel provides an important rail link between the Waikato and the Port of Tauranga.
In 1850, when the first four ships arrived at Lyttelton, there were only two ways of reaching the township of …
The Lyttelton Road Tunnel connects Christchurch with the South Island’s largest deep-water port at Lyttelton. Opened on 27 February 1964, …
