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{{Clickable button 2|Observer18|Prev Issue}} {{Clickable button 2|Observer20|Next Issue}} '''CONTENTS''' Society Notes The Leopoldina Railway - a metre-gauge Railway in Brazil - by E. W. Robson Mainline Gradient of the New Zealand Railways Part 8 Auckland to Rotorua, Thames and Taneatua Recent Railway Literature *4-8-2 Class15F Locomotives for the South African Railways *The Narrow gauge Railroads of Colorado *Locomotive Stock Book - 1946 (British) News, Note and Comment *The first of the long-awaited Ja_Class_locomotives left [[Hillside Workshops]] on 12 December 1946. Being loco_Ja1242, with builder's number 365/1946. *Loco_Ka957 went inti service early in December, being the third non-streamlined *Loco_Ab748 and Loco_Ab704 have appeared with ballast blocks over the leading bogie *The Ab_class_locos will undergo some changes when re-boilered. **Boiler pitched a foot higher **Fitted with a deeper throat and combustion chamber **Fitted with a deeper fire-box **Boiler to be moved slightly forward **Trailing bogie to be redesigned as a Bissel truck *A certain amount of redesigning is likely to also occur with the Ww_class_loco reboilering. *Loco_X446 emerged from Hillside as a 4 cylinder simple after overhaul but had to return for a number of days to fix a valve-gear problem. Delivered to Ohai Railway Board before year's end **Alterations included rebuilding of the front end including cylinders and outside steam pipes, fitting a tender cab and cowcatcher, provision of back-up sand-boxes over the trailing wheels. *Twenty more locomotives are to be converted for oil burning, probably Ka_class_loco's based out of Palmerston North, with consequential additional oil fuelling facilities at Wanganui, Napier and Palmerston North. Paekakariki and Taihape already have facilities *Loco_F20 from Invercargill district has been at the [[Dunedin Gas works]] from 25/11/46 - 17/12/1946 while their Loco_A66 (built in 1873) was undergoing an overhaul. *Loco_Wf468 arrived in Christchurch from Picton in late November. Loco_Wf390 returned to Picton a little while after Loco_Wf468 arrived. *Loco_Aa_653 sown in the illustration at the foot of page 93 in the December issue, was the first re-boilered Aa_class_loco to work up as far north as Auckland *Loco_Aa_653 ran into a slip near Kopaki and was marooned for several days. *[[Ohai Railway Board]] **A Second lX_class_oco has been purchased from NZR Loco_X446 arrived late in 1946 **Former stand-by was Loco_Wd317 *Tasmanian Government Railways *Riding on the Footplate *Locomotive chimneys **Most Wf_class_loco's have squat stovepipe chimneys *Ex W&MR cars now restricted to Auckland due to their height *Speed recording *Tunnels in New Zealand **there are approx 180 tunnels in NZ, 100 in the North Island *Mount Maunganui **Now a Borough, so station servicing it had a name change **Old PWD line partially lifted during latter part of 1942 and relaid to the RNZAF Airport, about 1.2km total length **Rail tractor "Planet" did good service on that line now parked up and track overgrown with weeds. *EMU's have been used to relieve pressure on the Ed _class_loco's for Wellington - Paekakariki off peak services *Waimea Plains Branch Memories **Schoolboy s got to know the crew, Drivers;Tommy Carter, Jack Leishman, Teddy Crone and Doug Nickless driving V_class_loco's with a top speed of about 30miles per hour **The Old_K_class Loco's could do muck better, especially if running late.