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Horse-drawn tram, 1904

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Horse-drawn tram, 1904

These trams, including one with its three-horsepower engine in place, are waiting at the city council depot in Adelaide Rd, Wellington, around 1904. Public transport enabled suburbs to develop on the outskirts of cities.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, New Zealand Tramway Workers Union Collection

Reference: PAColl-D-925-2

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Mark Derby, Suburbs – The role of transport, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/25055/horse-drawn-tram-1904 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Mark Derby, published 4 February 2010.