Graham Stewart was a teenager when he travelled to Whanganui from Auckland - camera in hand - to document the city's trams a week before they were taken out of service.
Mr Stewart made several trips to Whanganui to photograph the trams, such was his interest in them, particularly Whanganui's network with its bridges, viaducts and underpasses.
And he will soon be donating mounted copies of some of those photos to the Wanganui Tramways Trust, which has accepted his gift.
The Whanganui trams were replaced by Greyhound buses in September 1950.
Mr Stewart came down for the closing ceremony and booked in at a hotel in the bottom of Victoria Ave.