Visit New Zealand

- By Diana Tijoriwalla

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• Indians in NZ
• The Howick Historical Village
• School Levels
• The Treaty of Waitangi.
• Maori Cooking
• Anzac Day 25th April
• Auckland Regional Parks
• Tongariro National Park
• The Buried Village (Rotorua)
• Auckland's Islands
• Paradise Valley Springs (Rotorua)
• MOTAT
• The Polynesian Spa
• Rules for Teachers
• Daffodil Day
• The Waitakere Ranges
• Western Springs Tramway
• Auckland Museum
• New Zealand's Pride
• The Tuatara
• Maungakiekie
• Secondary Schools
• Sir Edmund Hillary
• Halloween
• Auckland Zoo

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Western Springs Tramway

The tramway collection at MOTAT (Museum) represents over 100 years of urban transport in NZ.
The idea of a national museum of transport began to take shape in 1957, soon after the closure of the electric tramways in Wanganui, Invercargill, New Plymouth, Christchurch, Dunedin & Auckland during 1950-56. Beginning with Auckland tram No. 253, the Old Time Transport Preservation League began to assemble examples of our national transport heritage at Matakohe, 150km north of Auckland.
With the establishment of MOTAT at Western Springs in 1963, the vision of an operating museum tramway approached reality. Operation began on 16 Dec 1967 over the 1st length of track (inside the museum grounds from the Pumphouse). The 1.1km line along the Park boundary to the Auckland Zoo opened in 1981. They want to extend it to the Aviation Museum at Meola Road , when funds permit.Visitors have made over 4 million trips on the tramway in the past 33 years. The trams are restored, operated & maintained by volunteers who are unpaid professionals.

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