Thorndon railway station in Wellington, New Zealand, was opened in 1885 as the southern terminus of the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company’s Wellington-Manawatu Line and then known as Wellington and Manawatu railway station. This line is now part of the Kapiti section of the North Island Main Trunk.
Thorndon Railway Station (after November 1908)
Thorndon station about 1905 looking south
Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company
The Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company was a private railway company that built, owned and operated the Wellington-Manawatu railway line between Thorndon in Wellington, the capital of New Zealand, and Longburn, near Palmerston North in the Manawatu, between 1881 and 1908, when it was acquired by the New Zealand Government Railways. Its successful operation in private ownership was unusual for early railways in New Zealand.
W&MR No.9 locomotive (later reclassified as an N class) in service at Paekākāriki c. 1900.
Thorndon Railway Station c.1900 opened 1886, closed 18 June 1937
Shannon Railway Station
The bell on platform 6 of Wellington Train Station.