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Cable car to Highgate

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Cable car to Highgate
Dunedin schoolboys ride a cable car from the city, probably around 1940. Cable cars and trams opened up the hillsides above the city for housing, and remained a feature of the city until the 1950s.

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Hocken Collections, University of Otago

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Malcolm McKinnon, Otago places – Northern Dunedin, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/22769/cable-car-to-highgate (accessed 3 June 2026).

Story by Malcolm McKinnon, published 19 August 2009, updated 1 July 2015.