Railway stations have always been places of arrival and departure, anticipation and
longing. As this 1941 image suggests, farewells took on an extra poignancy during
wartime – who knows whether the people in this photograph ever saw each other again.
Alexander Turnbull Library Reference:
F-28405-1/2 Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna
Matauranga o Aotearoa must be obtained before any reuse of this image.
How to cite this page
'Farewell at station, 1941', URL:
https://nzhistory.net.nz/media/photo/farewell-at-station-1941, (Ministry for Culture and
Heritage), updated 23-Dec-2013
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