Railway Scenes - Comical Postcards

As in any theme (This one being NZ Railways) you will find various special comical cards were issued. These can become a special chapter in your display and often shows the humour (what people laughed at during that time)

Below I have selected a few cards that depict this. It even brings into the humour of the actual construction of this main mode of transport at that time and how they laughed at themselves to overcome the problems faced when constructing the Main Trunk Line that joined Auckland with Wellington etc.

As you can see  - " I came here for a change and rest. The girls got the change and the landlady got the rest. All that I have left is a ten day ticket AUCKLAND TO WERE I COME FROM"

And another hand sketched comical MAIN TRUNK CARD

This laughs at the MAIN TRUNK SPIRAL - which was and still is a master piece of engineering to overcome a major obsticle on this route. This map of that shows why and how.

THE GREAT RAURIMU SPIRAL N.M.T.R. SHOWS A PLAN OF THE SPIRAL ,FGR NO 2888.

To finish off this article - An arrival card - Quite a few are still able to be found of various destinations like this one of Wellington

The window (Case ) opens out to show small miniatures of the area - this being Wellington.