GOLDEN BAY MUSEUM AND GALLERY
Commercial Street • Takaka
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View of a private railway locomotive on the Takaka Tramway. Photographer Frederick Nelson. F.N. Jones Collection, NZ. G-9431-1/1, Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa
At the end of the nineteenth century, a tramway ran from East Takaka to the Waitapu wharf and this locomotive, "The Pioneer" steamed along the main street of Takaka twice a day.

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