What pattern did 'old' transportation create?

The different types of transport that effected the patterns in Wellington are:

• Shipping


• Walking


• Horse


• Trams


• Cable Car


• Cars


• Trains


• Buses (trolley and diesel)


• Ferry


• Aeroplane

Shipping was the first form of transportation in Wellington. In the 1840's people settled around the Wellington harbour because of the easy access to the ports and shipping areas. This means that all the residential area were close to the port clustered together in walking distance. This is because many people would have had jobs at the port. The picture below was taken in 1887 and it is a picture of Queens wharf. (D)

(Ref: The Wharf, Wellington Reference No: 00120:0:06, From the Wellington city council Archive)

Walking and Horse Riding is other forms of transport in the 1840's Wellingtons size was limited by how far you could walk or ride by horse because people had to live in walking distance or riding distance of their jobs and places that they could get supplies. Below is a picture of a horse and cart that used to be a common way to travel in the 1900 when the photo was taken. (E)












(Ref: Picot Brothers, Coal and Produce Depot, Hatton Street, Karori Reference No: 00138:0:1076, From the Wellington city council Archive)


The trams greatly effected transportation in Wellington they aloud people to live in Wadestown, Seatoun, Newtown and still have jobs in the City it also provided a quicker way of getting around the centre of Wellington The trams way in the city was opened in 1878 and ran for 86 years till 1964 in this time trams dominated the public transport in Wellington.

The first trams in Wellington looked more like small steam trains. Launched in August 1878, they consisted of a small steam engine. This tram were very noisy and for a time they change these steam engine trams to horse drawn trams.

1900 marked the year which saw the beginning of the changes that would lead to trams changing the face of Wellington.

On the 30th June 1904 the new era began with a short run through Newtown. Within months the main route through the city was completed and by 1907, trams were running through the Hataitai Tunnel to Kilbirnie, Miramar and Seatoun, through Berhampore to Island Bay, and up to Brooklyn and Karori Cemetery. These opened up large tracts of land and suburbs of Wellington began to boom. By 1911, extensions were laid to Karori Park and up to Wadestown.

For the next 50 years, life in Wellington was dependent on the tram as a means of transport, but gradually city planners began to realise that their days were numbered. Many of Wellington's streets were very narrow by Australasian standards and large trams lumbering down the centre-line of the road didn't mix well with increasing numbers of cars. Buses were seen to be the future, being much a more manoeuvrable and safer form of public transport. By the late 1950's routes began to close, and on 2nd May 1964, the last surviving tramcar route in New Zealand (Thorndon to Newtown) came to a close.















There are two photos below the first of a horse drawn tram (1900) and the other of the tramways in Newtown (1904).

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(Ref: Title: First horse tram in Wellington, Pictured in Newtown,Reference No: 00146:1:504, From the Wellington city council Archive)
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(Ref: Wellington City Corporation Tramways, tram to Newtown, Reference No: 00137:0:3, Wellington city council Archive)

At the end of the nineteenth century the hills around Wellington were still predominantly farmland. To provide transport facilities, a tramway was settled on. Initially it was proposed that the tramway could be built by private interests and then made available for sale to the Wellington City Council on completion. The cable, a mile long wire rope was wound up and down the track by a 12 foot driving wheel, then run around huge pulleys as either end of the track, and through the driving mechanism. The tramway was finally opened on the 22 February 1902, and during its first days of operation free tickets were offered to those interested in buying land in Kelburn. This can still be seen in Wellington today and the cable car is a Wellington icon. The photo below was taken in 1910 it is of the Cable Car.

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(Ref: Kelburn Cablecar Terminus and Kiosk Reference No: 00138:0:777, From the Wellington city council Archive)

The type of transport that effected Wellington the most would be the car. The car started to make a big difference in the 1950's and 1960's. The car aloud people to live in places that in the past it would have been imposable because it was to far to walk to town and there was no public transport. This meant that Wellington spread out and people did no need public transport so much.

Train came about very early in Wellingtons History. There was the Rimutaka incline opened in 1878 that aloud people to farm goods in the Waiarapa and transport them in to Wellington when the tunnel opened in1956 aloud people to live in the Waiarapa and work in Wellington. Then there was the railway track to Johnsonville and the Manawatu that opened in 1879 that aloud goods to come in from these area and for people to live out there instead of in the city even more so after electric trains came along. There were also trains that went to Tawa and Porirua that aloud people to move out the city and live out in those areas. Lastly there were trains that went to Auckland and Palmerston North aloud people to travel and to have goods come to Wellington from those areas. The picture below is of the Khandallah railway station in 1938.

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(Ref: Khandallah Railway Station, electrification of the Johnsonville Line, Reference No: 00155:0:115, From the Wellington city council Archive)



Trolley Buses replaced the tram and still work on the same routes that the trams used so it did not effect Wellington that much. The Diesel buses effected Wellington a lot because they started up routes all around Wellington and the Hutt. Buses do not need tracks so they could go to many places that trains and trolley buses can not and people in areas like that area steep. This aloud people to spread around the hills of Wellington even more. The picture below is of the Trolley buses outside the railway station it was taken in 1964.

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(Ref: Trolley Buses at Railway Station, Reference No: 00146:1:300, From the Wellington city council Archive)
The last form of transportation is Aeroplanes that aloud people to move around fast and get information from other countries . It also started tourism in Wellington this meant that more hotels were built in the central city and more tourist sites were created. Below is a picture of a old aeroplane flying over Wellington.

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(Ref: Aeroplane flying over Wellington, Reference No: 00155:0:157, From the Wellington city council Archive)

The pattern that transport created in Wellington was the more developed it became the further away from Wellington people could live and still come in everyday to work. When walking was the most common from of transport people lived in the middle of wellington. Now you can live out in Kapti and come in to Wellington to work each day.