All NZR locomotives

INTRODUCTION

All locomotives had Road Numbers, independent from the Classification letters. The original numbering system has each section of the railway control its own numbers, with pre-allocated blocks of numbers for each section. In the North Island this worked for a while but they soon sturck the problem of sections running out of numbers, and transfer of locomotives between sections. In the South Island things went a bit different, mainly because the two main sections grew large very quickly, and were then joined up to extend over about two thirds of the Island. In 1882 to over come numbering problems due to the aforementioned causes, a new system was introduced for which the instructions given, were anbiguous and interpreted differently in different section. In the North Island new blocks of numbers were allocated and loco's renumbered accordingly, in the South Island, the Hurunui - Bluff Railway developed its own list with some of the early numbers duplicated by merging Otago and Canterbury lists. However, by referring to both the class letter, and the locomotive number, individual engines were able to be accurately identified. Due to the issues the North Island (and South Island isolated sections) created, a new directive on locomotive numbering was issued in 1890 whereby locomotive numbers were issued from a central list. This 1890 List accommodated duplicate numbers for some of the early locomotives, but commenced what was fundamentally a single numetical sequence from

Steam Locomotives

All locomotives operated by New Zealand Railways

Road number	Class	Type	Builder	Maker's No	In Service	Written off	Notes
1	F	0-6-0ST	Avonside	1095/76	c.	9-03-1929