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Kōrero: Transport – overview

Travelling by steam train

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Travelling by steam train

Well into the 20th century, the fastest, most comfortable way to travel was by steam train. The relative luxury of train travel is evoked in this late-1930s photograph of a first-class carriage.

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Archives New Zealand - Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga

Reference: ANZ AAVK W3493 C106

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James Watson, Transport – overview – Steam transport, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/24986/travelling-by-steam-train (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā James Watson, i tāngia i te 10 June 2013.