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The First 100 Years : Wellington Centenary of Public Transport

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TitleThe First 100 Years : Wellington Centenary of Public Transport Author/ContributorHilda McDonnellPublisherWellington City TransportDate Published1978Place of publicationWellingtonDescription

Published by Wellington City Transport (the public transport department of the Wellington City Council) to commemorate the 100th anniversary of public transport in the capital which began with the introduction of steam-powered trams in August 1878. The bus network remained under the ownership and management of the City Council until 1992 when it was sold (excluding the Wellington Cable Car and the overhead wiring network then used by trolley buses) as a going concern to the Scottish-based company Stagecoach who then on-sold it to Infratil in 2005.

The booklet was researched and written by Hilda McDonnell who worked as the Local History Librarian for Wellington City Libraries from 1975 to 1998.

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	[...]r that Council took over the tramway service, the tram-cars were all horse drawn. It then became the Cor[...]adopted. We can still see evidence of the early tram system round Wellington. The Tramway Hotel in Ade[...]arted operating. It marks the end of the original tram line. Nearby is Brown Street, named after Samuel[...]uildings still stand to remind us of the electric tram era. There is the old tramway office opposite the[...]lton Gore Road was at the end of the Oriental Bay tram line when the system was extended and elec[...]
	[...]and a contract let out for the construction of a tram track from the Basin Reserve to Thorndon.[...]
	[...], smokeless and free of any escape of steam. The tram car trailers came from New York. They were made b[...]s. The service was claimed to be the first steam-tram in the southern hemisphere. It was opened by the[...]ke 120 horses; they ran three horses abreast to a tram, 100 working and 20 spelling. Bred at Otaki the h[...]weather. Hotels adver- tised themselves as on the tram route. Churches and halls sprang up along the way[...]r, they could catch up with a labouring com- pany tram, scurry round it, then move back on to the[...]
	[...]mway in- vestment, He reported on New Zealand’s tram systems and recommended for Wellington ele[...]
	[...]of Island Bay, Kilbirnie, Hataitai and Brooklyn. Tram extension to these districts was a conditi[...]
	[...]Tinakori Road housed trams overnight. The Newtown tram sheds in Mansfield St were built in 1904 on the s[...]u Road, and Kilbirnie became the main depot. The tram sheds at Kilbirnie opened in 1924 with a holding[...]rs of age. Wellington has had a variety of tram types. The early trams featured open driving comp[...]ung around at each terminal. By [912 six types of tram cars were in use; the double decker, Hong Kong, P[...]y of Wellington Yearbook for 1912. Details of all tram rolling stock can be found in 1959 and 196[...]
	[...]resting experiment began in 1924 when a trackless tram was in- troduced between Thorndon and Kaiwharawha[...]numbered 26 buses in its fleet. “TRACKLESS TRAM” 1924 These petrol buses were first used by the Council as a feeder service to areas beyond the tram routes: a feeder service from Newtown Park termin[...]egan in 1925; a circuit service from the Hataitai tram terminus in Waitoa Rd to Te Anau Rd, 1926; a Mornington circuit from the Brooklyn tram terminus, 1926; from Roseneath to Courtenay Place, 1926. Other new services not based on tram routes were started: from the Dominion building t[...]and trust. The Fiducia was a single com- partment tram designed and made at the Kilbirnie Work- shops as an experimental tram. It proved very popular. The Kilbirnie Wo[...]
	[...]rack renewals and the modernisation of its ageing tram fleet. Towards the end of the war the General Man[...]eath to Wadestown in 1949 via Wadestown Road. The tram tracks were removed and the necessary overhead eq[...]hs later trolley buses were running along the old tram route through the Barnard St cutting. In 1946 th[...]save the trams’ were lost and New Zealands last tram ran ina public procession to the Newtown Tram Barns on Saturday 2 May 1964. The diesel[...]