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The NZ Police Collection of 40 plus vehicles were housed at MOTAT for a number of years until 2011. Trams are displayed at MOTAT 1 and operate daily between MOTAT 1's Great North Road Site, via Western Springs Park and Auckland Zoo to MOTAT 2. [8] The extended line was opened by then-Prime Minister Helen Clark on Friday 27 April 2007. [9]
A replacement boiler has been acquired from Steam Incorporated In storage MOTAT 2; NZR Y class No.542 0-6-0 T 1923 – Hunslet Engine Company. No.1444. 23 tonnes. Operational MOTAT 2; NZR A B class No.832 4-6-2 1925 – North British Locomotive Company. No.23190. Tender locomotive. Static MOTAT 2. Was on loan to Glenbrook Vintage Railway until ...
The Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT) in Auckland has the Western Springs Tramway with 1.72 km (1.07 mi) of track, running alongside Western Springs Park parallel to Great North and Motions Roads to Auckland Zoo, across Motions Road and to the second MOTAT site. Museum tram operations commenced within MOTAT on 16 December 1967, to the ...
Western Springs is a residential suburb in the city of Auckland in the north of New Zealand. It is located four kilometres to the west of the city centre, Auckland CBD.The park is situated to the north of State Highway 16 and the residential suburb is located southeast of the park on the opposite side of State Highway 16.
K 900 was donated to MOTAT, and prior to being delivered to the MOTAT site, it was put on display outside Sims Pacific Metals until 1975 when it was replaced by D F 1301. It was then transported to the main MOTAT site and placed at the rail pavilion in the company of A B 832, F 180 Meg Merrilies, J 1236, W W 491, and diesel-electric locomotive ...
Preserved examples at Pleasant Point Railway (near Timaru), Steam Incorporated Paekakariki, Mainline Steam Heritage trust, Kingston Flyer (near Queenstown), Glenbrook/Motat (Auckland). A D: 30 1910 1916 4-6-2: Reclassified A in 1916. B of 1874: 2 1874 1890 0-4-4-0 T Double Fairlie: B of 1899: 10 1899 1967 4-8-0: Three rebuilt as W E class B A ...
Richard William Pearse (3 December 1877 – 29 July 1953) was a New Zealand farmer and inventor who performed pioneering aviation experiments. Witnesses interviewed many years afterwards describe observing Pearse flying and landing a powered heavier-than-air machine on 31 March 1903, nine months before the Wright brothers flew.
Some tramcars have been preserved at New Zealand's Ferrymead Museum in Christchurch and MOTAT Museum in Auckland, which operates restored Wellington double-deck tramcar No. 47, which operated in 1906 [4] and also has Auckland double-deck tramcar No. 17 in storage.