Wellington interlude - 1

I was planning to continue my short Ballarat series today, but the barely-on-
topic discussion of Wellington railway stations supervened.

This postcard view of the old Lambton station is scanned a little guiltily from
page 40 of J.D. Mahoney's "Down at the Station: A study of the New Zealand
railway station."

The station fronted the wide place where Lambton Quay and Featherston Street
come together and Thorndon Quay begins, known as Lambton Terminus to
generations of tram riders.

The caption "Lambton 1880" obviously refers to the date of the station, not of
the photograph. The four-wheeler is one of Nos.13-24, part of a fleet of 33
trams (12 single-truck, double-deck, 12 single-truck single-deck, 9 double-
truck, single-deck combination cars) with which Wellington City Council
Tramways inaugurated electric service in 1904.

A similar view dated 1925 (more tram, less station) can be found on p.104 of G
Stewart's "Always a Tram In Sight," while views of the intersection from the
opposite direction are on p.83 of the same author's "The End of the Penny
Section."

Don G

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