Wellington interlude - 2

From "Seeing New Zealand" by JMD Hardwick, published by AH&AW Reed, 1959
printing:

SeeingNZ-59.jpg
Two trams sit in Bunny Street in front of Wellington's Railway Station, with
tracks turning in front of us into Featherston Street.

The site of the old Lambton station was to our left, down the side of the new
building.

Now if you arrived in a city for the first time, especially if you had seen a
picture like this, you'd expect to come out to this plaza to catch transport
uptown, right? At least, that's what I did in 1960: marched out the front door,
ignoring the "Lambton Quay" signs, to be greeted by . . . nothing. The new
station may have had a new orientation, but public transport clung to the the
old pattern and used what had now become the side entrance.

The liner sitting at Glasgow Wharf appears to be the Dominion Monarch.

Don G

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