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{{Mag Issue
|MAGAZINE=Your Auckland Railway News
|Issue_Number=8
|Issue Date=February 1954
|Volume_Number=2/1
|Page_Count=4
|Page_Range=1-4
|Cover_Image=n.a.
}}
'''CONTENTS'''

'''Branch Notes'''

'''An Extra Issue of Yarn''' - YARN Vol.2 No2RR (run as required) will be available as an extra at the next meeting, charge 2/- (20c) per copy.

'''Track Working machines'''. A Matisa ballast tamping machine paid a brief visit to the Civil Engineer's workshop before Christmas (1953) before heading to the Bay of Plenty

'''Locomotive Notes'''
*loco_Ka948 has gone to Hutt Workshops after being raised from the low ground at Mangaweka
*Loco_Ka949 has been raised in pieces from the bed of the Whangaehu River at Tangiwai and the parts are off to Hutt Workshops. She is considered to be repairable.
*Loco_Jb1206 returned to Auckland from Hutt Workshops on 6/01/1954, the first for some 3 months
*Loco_Jb1233 returned to Taumarunui from Hutt Workshops on 3/01/1954 after an overhaul.
*Loco_Ww494 is presently stripped down at the Auckland Fitters Shop
*Loco_Wab is in the Auckland Fitters Shop for light repairs
*Loco_Ww678 is available again after being used at Penrose in mid January 1954
*Loco_Wg483 was used at Otahuhu Workshops till Christmas (1953) and has been running yard shunts since
*Loco_Wg484 does odd jobs around Taumarunui with steam blowing everywhere.
*Loco_Ab822 has been spotted around the Waikato after repairs at Hutt Workshops
*Loco_Bb618 arrived in auckalnd for a C grade overhaul at the Fitters Shop
*Several Ka_class_loco's have been seen in Auckland with the track cut at Tangawai; Loco_Ka942, Loco_Ka947, Loco_Ka945, Loco_Ka940 were all recorded.
*Loco_Ja1279 was noted on a round trip to Taumarunui and back on 7/01/1954, very typical of the work this class of loco is doing at the moment. It made up 7 minutes of lost time between Buckland and Auckland whereas Train_J10 with 8 total, arrived 30 minutes late, the latest for this train since the war.
*Additional running of more than 2 hours was incurred while the Tangawai bridge was being reconstructed. Since the track was reopened, the 7 - 10 minutes lost due to restrictions at Tangawai, have usually been recovered by the time Auckland was reached.
*some time during 1953, two night expresses ex Auckland were both banked up the spiral, one by loco_J1217 (a coal burner), the other by loco_Ab663, helping loco_Ka948. It will have been many years since Ab_class_locos were used as bankers on the Spiral.