NZR Carriages

The story of NZR early Passenger Carriages has been told in infinite detail by John Agnew in a series of articles published in NZ Railfan spanning 11 years. With the first article appearing in December 2008, which looked at early car-vans, and ending with an article on Troop movements and Royal visits in December 2020. Sadly Railfan ceased publication in 2020, and what I presume were the last 2 articles in the Royal Visit series never got published. Given there are no articles covering the cars from about 1900 onwards, suggests this overall series could have continued for some years yet.

As a ready reference, a list of all the articles in order of publication is given in the table below with links to the magazine issue. It is hoped to eventually have an extended summary of each article and as each of those gets prepared, a hyperlink will be provided to the Article page.

Railfan Articles by John Agnew covering NZ passenger carriages

Issue	Month	Year	Article Title	Article sub-title	part/of
Railfan57	December	2008	NZR's Early Car-vans	-	1 of 4
Railfan58	March	2009	NZR's Early Car-vans	Class A Low-roofed Bogie cars	2 of 4
Railfan59	June	2009	NZR's Early Car-vans	-	3 of 4
Railfan60	September	2009	NZR's Early Car-vans	-	4 of 4
Railfan61	December	2009	NZ's Bogie Carriages	-	1 of 8
Railfan62	March	2010	NZ's Bogie Carriages	The Gilbert Bush Cars	2 of 8
Railfan63	June	2010	NZ's Bogie Carriages	-	3 of 8
Railfan64	September	2010	NZ's Bogie Carriages	The Gumdiggers	4 of 8
Railfan65	December	2010	NZ's Bogie Carriages	The Addington Cars	5 of 8
Railfan66	March	2011	NZ's Bogie Carriages	The Addington Cars	6 of 8
Railfan67	June	2011	NZ's Bogie Carriages	Cars of the 1890's	7 of 8
Railfan68	September	2011	NZ's Bogie Carriages	Cars of the 1890's	8 of 8
Railfan69	December	2011
Railfan70	March	2012	The D Class Carriages	-
Railfan71	June	2012
Railfan72	September	2012	The C Class 6 - Wheelers		1 of 2
Railfan73	December	2012	The C Class 6 - Wheelers		2 0f 2
Railfan74	March	2013	The C Class Bogie Carriages	South Island
Railfan75	June	2013	The C Class Bogie Carriages	North Island
Railfan76	September	2013	Mails by Rail	-	1 of 6
Railfan77	December	2013	Mails by Rail		2 0f 6
Railfan78	March	2014	Mails by Rail	South Island	3 of 6
Railfan79	June	2014	Mails by Rail	North Island	4 of 6
Railfan80	September	2014	Mails by Rail	-	5 of 6
Railfan81	December	2014	Mails by Rail		6 0f 6
Railfan82	March	2015	The Saloon Balcony Cars	1889 BirdCage	1 of 5
Railfan83	June	2015	The Saloon Balcony Cars		2 of 5
Railfan84	September	2015	The Saloon Balcony Cars	-	3 of 5
Railfan85	December	2015	The Saloon Balcony Cars		4 0f 5
Railfan86	March	2016	The Saloon Balcony Cars		5 of 5
Railfan87	June	2016	44ft Day Cars	North Island
Railfan88	September	2016	Passenger Cars of The NZ Midland Railway Co	-
Railfan89	December	2016	Passenger Cars of The Wellington & Manawatu Railway Co		1 0f 4
Railfan90	March	2017	Passenger Cars of The Wellington & Manawatu Railway Co		2 of 4
Railfan91	June	2017	Passenger Cars of The Wellington & Manawatu Railway Co		3 of 4
Railfan92	September	2017	Passenger Cars of The Wellington & Manawatu Railway Co	-	4 of 4
Railfan93	December	2017	Canterbury Railways Broad Gauge Stock
Railfan94	March	2018	Southland Pioneering Broad Gauge Stock
Railfan95	June	2018	NZR's 4-wheeled Break vans		1 of 3
Railfan96	September	2018	NZR's 4-wheeled Break vans	-	2 of 3
Railfan97	December	2018	NZR's 4-wheeled Break vans		3 0f 3
Railfan98	March	2019	Early Bogie Break vans
Railfan99	June	2019	Early Dining Cars	1 of 2
Railfan100	September	2019	Early Dining Cars	-	2 of 2
Railfan101	December	2019	Troop Movements and Royal Visits	-