The Sanson Tramway in the Manawatū region of New Zealand operated from 1885 until 1945. Owned by the Manawatu County Council, it connected with the national railway network at Himatangi on the Foxton Branch. It was never part of the national network.
The SansonTramway in the Manawatū region of New Zealand operated from 1885 until 1945. Owned by the Manawatu County Council, it connected with the national...
were unsuccessful. All except the Whakatane Board Mills line and the SansonTramway were later acquired by the government. The most successful was the Wellington...
as a tramway, reopened as a railway on 27 April 1876, and operated until 18 July 1959. At Himatangi there was a junction with the SansonTramway, a line...
Branch railway and the Manawatu County Council's SansonTramway. Both lines are now closed; use of the Tramway ceased in 1945, followed by the Branch in 1959...
line was worked by an NZR P class (1876) loco, transferred from the SansonTramway in about 1922, but it was dismantled by 1932. To the north of the station...
class locomotives went to the Manawatu County Council for use on the SansonTramway, two of which were given away free by NZR for use as spares. Another...
built, or whether, as suggested at the time, it was to be a link to the Sansontramway. That proposal had been made in 1892, was rejected in 1916, and made...
1898, when it was sold to the Manawatu County Council for use on its SansonTramway. Despite the WMR's short history and its disappearance long before the...
No. 212 was given away at no charge to the Manawatu County Council's SansonTramway for use as a spare. NZR E class (1872) NZR B class (1874) NZR R class...
however the Department of Conservation Southland operations manager Lou Sanson accepted that the shooting was accidental. After his retirement from the...
theatre (1890), renovated in the late twentieth century. Raoul Grimoin-Sanson, cinematography inventor, was born here. André Maurois (né Émile Salomon...
four state highways: State Highway 3 runs northwest–southeast from SH 1 at Sanson through central Palmerston North (via Rangitikei Street, Grey Street, Princess...
occupied by a cycleway, built in 2015. Awa Puni station opened on the Foxton tramway on 26 July 1873, 21 mi 6 ch (33.9 km) from Foxton. A Māori petition for...
Marton and Palmerston North, as had the route through Halcombe, rather than Sanson. Initially the trains spent over 40 minutes at the refreshment stop, but...