Sewage disposal in Auckland has been a controversial topic over many years. Originally, holding tanks (now Kelly Tarlton’s Underwater World) …
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The South Island’s east to west coast railway opened in 1923 after 36 years of challenging construction, which included five …
Implementation of long-deferred North Island Main Trunk (NIMT) line electrification schemes enabled a 50 per cent increase in train load …
This road in the central North Island comprises stone paving and improvements on a track started in the 1880s. When …
Opened in late 1908, the North Island Main Trunk railway (NIMT) linked Auckland with Wellington, Taranaki and Whanganui, and contributed …
From 1932 the New Zealand-designed and manufactured K class steam locomotive, with its derivatives the Ka and Kb classes, was …
Kelly Tarlton’s Underwater World, opened in January 1985, is a fine example of entrepreneurial engineering. Innovatively created inside disused sewage …
A compound Pratt truss bridge, with tall concrete piers, the Lower Shotover Bridge was designed by eminent engineer, James Edward …
In 1850, when the first four ships arrived at Lyttelton, there were only two ways of reaching the township of …
The Mōhaka Viaduct is the highest railway viaduct in Australasia, standing 95 m above Hawke's Bay's Mōhaka River. This spectacular …
This 8,529 metre tunnel was the longest in the British Empire at the time of its construction.
Although initially a government project in 1879, the Wellington and Manawatū Railway (WMR) was completed by a company between 1881 …
Like many other important Auckland heritage buildings, work to strengthen the Auckland High Court (formerly Supreme Court) building was undertaken …
The MONIAC is a notable example of an analogue computer. It is an economic simulator that used water to model …
Ātiamuri power station was the sixth hydro-electric power station built on the Waikato river below Lake Taupo. In the period …
