Behind me is the Gisborne District Council Testing Station where you currently go to get your car’s warrant of fitness. But 100 years ago, this building was quite different entirely. This is where you’d find Gisborne’s trams.”

The testing station in Carnarvon Street was previously the tram barn, where the trams parked up at night to charge. I’ve been interested in the trams since seeing pictures of them on the National Library website, and I had questions, Where are they now? Why did they stop? Why does the council occasionally dig up tram rails when doing roading projects?

Oh, and if you are...