Palmerston North Electric Power Station Inc.

Recommended Links

• Mangahao Hydro-Electric Power Station

• Tararua Wind Farm

• Palmerston North-Manawatu attractions and information

• New Zealand-wide associated attractions and information

• Overseas websites of a similar nature

• Old Power Stations as Museums (NZ & overseas)

• Website credits

Mangahao Hydro-Electric Power Station (behind Shannon)

• Mangahao Hydro-Electric Power Station (Owner, Todd Energy's website)

• William Hudson (Supervised construction of Mangahao & Arapuni Hydro Power Stations)

• 1922 tragedy (7 die) during construction of Mangahao (a genealogical record from a victim's family)

Tararua Wind Farm (in the Tararua Ranges between Palm. Nth and the Manawatu Gorge)

• Scandinavian Club of Manawatu's Tararua Wind Farm web page, giving some technical detail

• Tararua.com's webpage on the windfarm

• A personal website on Ashhurst, a town beneath the wind farm, and which provides more info on it.

Palmerston North-Manawatu

• Kelvin Grove, New Zealand (The suburb near the power station and reached via Keith Street  - history and present-day)

• Whakarongo, New Zealand (A farming and lifestyle block district near the power station, that received its first electricity from its generators - in 1924)

• Tokomaru Steam Engine Museum

• Featherston Street Pit & Hoffmann Kiln  (Pit Park People Society Inc., and an associated local industrial heritage site close to the power station.)

• Destination Manawatu Inc. (A district tourism organisation responsible for the facilitation and co-ordination of marketing and promotional activities for the Manawatu District)

• www.manawatu.com (A link site of Manawatu websites)

• Palmy.Net (A web directory of Palmerston North websites)

New Zealand-wide

• Ormondville Rail Preservation Group Inc (Shares its editor with this website)

• Power Stations of New Zealand (A homework project by a pupil from Upper Atiamuri School)

• Taranaki Aviation Transport and Technology Museum Inc., New Plymouth

• Waikato Vintage Tractor & Machinery Club

• Wellington Tramway Museum

• National Maritime Museum

• New Zealand Museums on-line

• The Tramway Historical Society Inc., Christchurch

• Museum of Transport & Technology (MOTAT)

Overseas

• British Polar Engines Ltd., Glasgow  

• Adrie & Jeanne Oostvogels' stationary engine and militaria website (Netherlands. Check out the stolen engines list on their Links page)

• Schoolcraft's Old Engines (West Virginia, USA. Great music and other intriguing stuff - like 'moving gifs')

• Finding Old Iron: Harrold's Antique Tractor & Engine Links

• Gasengine.com (A links page) 

• Museums around the United Kingdom on the Web

• OldEngine.org (Note: a member named P. Evans supplies specs on British Polar engines)

• Cooil Shellagh Engine Collection [Semidiesel.com] (UK - Contains a range of useful details, including on Nationals. This is the website of the aforementioned "Pevans")

• Peter & Rita Forbes Engine Pages  (UK - A wide range of engine topics)

• Paxman, Diesels, and Colchester: Some history of Colchester's best known engineering company, its products and achievements 

Old Power Stations as Museums (NZ & overseas)

• The Faraday Centre, Napier, NZ

• Danish Museum of Electricity  based around Gudenaacentralen, an old hydro-power station

• The Norwegian Industrial Worker’s Museum established in what in 1911 was the world’s largest power station - at Vemork. Also the site of Norwegian sabotage in WWII to stop Germany developing a nuclear bomb from heavy water produced there.

• Taming the Trolls -  the story of hydro-electricity in Norway. This includes background to the Vemork hydro-power station. 

• The Powerhouse Museum, Sydney

• Waddamana Power Station Museum Tasmania's first major hydro power station

• Steam in Finland - Has a very good links page, including to power stations around the world.

Website Credits

• Background Set (Buttons & Bars): Roxy's Graphics

Last updated 21 April 2008