New Zealand - Auckland - When the Auckland Railway Station was opened in November 1930, a tramway loop line was built to deliver people travelling by train to the front entrance of the station where a large canopy gave commuters protection from the weather. Trams always met the overnight express trains from Wellington early in the morning. #601718 Around Auckland by Tram in the 1950s - A unique photographic portfolio of Auckland as it was in the 1950s - the trams, the people, the suburbs, the streets, the shops and the advertising of the period. When the last trams were bade farewell in December 1956, suburbia was still confined mainly to the tram routes. At each terminus a cluster of small shops - a dairy, a butcher, a grocery, a hairdresser tobacconist, a chemist and a magazine shop - beyond the terminus a scattering of houses and paddocks. Author: Stewart, Graham ISBN: 1869340531 Click the link provided at the top to purchase the book through the MAD on New Zealand Shop - Supporting New Zealand Authors and Artists