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Full Name: Observer

Issue Number: 14

Issue Date: April 1946

Volume and Number: 3/2

Pages: 16

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Cover Image: n.a.

CONTENTS

Society Notes

Opening of the South Island Main Trunk Part 2 by N. Mather

The H Class 0-4-2T "Fell" Type Locomotives

News, Notes, and Comment

Whakatane Board Mills
- F_class_van ex NZR
- 18 - specially built flat-top wagons to carry logs
- Loco_Fa41 sold to Mill Nov 1937
- Loco_Fa250 sold to Mill Mar 1943
- Train_326 - morning train from mill
- Train_341 - afternoon train to mill
Tauranga Airport Line
- Loco_PWD2131 4007 "Planet" F.W. Hibbard & Co
Shag Point Branch
- Loco_D141
- Third branch line at Shag Point? surely not
Withdrawl of Passenger Services on Branch Lines
G_class_locomotives - The Garratt's
American Built Locomotives in New Zealand
- Baldwin Steam Motor of the Gonville and Castlecliff Town Boards No100
Passenger Comfort
Gisbone Airport Runway Crossing
- Signals dispensed with December 1945

Locomotive Notes

two locomotives approved to be converted to oil burning
Loco_X594 the only one converted to to simple operation to date
Loco_Ab661 spotted at Palmerston North with Roller Bearing Tender bogies
6 Tenders (less underframes) of G_Class_Loco pattern made at Otahuhu 3 - 4 years ago - not used yet
Loco_Ka945 seen working the "night limited" from Frankton to Auckland
Loco_TTT9 spotted at Putaruru for hydraulic testing
Loco_TTT7 in shed, in need of clean and overhaul
LocoTTT10 also at Putaruru.
A number of A_class_locos appeared in Wellington displacing Ab_class_locos; Loco_A600, Loco_A601, Loco_A606, Loco_A604, ex Palmerston North displaced Loco_Ab829, Loco_Ab831, Loco_Ab837, Loco_Ab838.
The only Ab class left seem to be; Loco_Ab826, Loco_Ab827, Loco_Ab832
Loco_Fa9 spotted at working Horotiu Freezing works with Loco_F257 also in the yard apparently undergoing inspection
Picton Engine Loco_Wf389 first to run through since connection made, to Hillside for overhaul

Mount Somers Fa Loco

Originally Loco_O10 (later Loco_F10) sold to Ohai Railway Board in 1919, date to Mt Somers unknown

Wh_class_loco's

5 originally acquired by WMR from Manning Wardell. Loco_WMR1 became NZR Loco_Wh447 in 1908, sold to Collet & Son Dannevirke 1927, Loco_WMR2 became NZR Loco_Wh448 in 1908, Loco_WMR3 and LocoWMR5 sold to Timaru Harbour Board in 1901 or 1902 one scrapped to Japan, the other to Mt Somers. Loco_WMR4 became NZRWh449 in 1908, sold to Waipa Railway & Coal Co in 1914

Hutt Valley Electrification

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 Society Notes
 *Affiliation with British Society
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 Wh_class_loco's
-*5 originally acquired by WMR. Loco_WMR1 became NZR Loco_Wh447 in 1908, sold to Collet & Son Dannevirke 1927, Loco_WMR2 became NZR Loco_Wh448, Loco_WMR3 and LocoWMR5 sold to Timaru Harbour Board in 1901 or 1902 one scrapped to Japan, the other to Mt Somers. Loco_WMR4 became NZRWh449, sold to Waipa Railway & Coal Co in 1914
+*5 originally acquired by WMR from Manning Wardell. Loco_WMR1 became NZR Loco_Wh447 in 1908, sold to Collet & Son Dannevirke 1927, Loco_WMR2 became NZR Loco_Wh448 in 1908, Loco_WMR3 and LocoWMR5 sold to Timaru Harbour Board in 1901 or 1902 one scrapped to Japan, the other to Mt Somers. Loco_WMR4 became NZRWh449 in 1908, sold to Waipa Railway & Coal Co in 1914
+Hutt Valley Electrification
+*Cabinet Approval 27/02/1946
+*Includes completion of Deviation and double tracking
+*New multiple units similar to Wellington - Johnsonville