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Full Name: The New Zealand Railway Observer

Issue Number: 1

Issue Date: May 1944

Volume and Number: 1/1

Pages: 6

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Cover Image: n.a.

The first issue of the Observer was produced in May 1944 following along the lines of its British equivalent. It appears to have been a solo effort by Tom McGavin acting as Editor, and Secretary/Treasurer of the new Railway Correspondence Society. Within a year the Society was to get a new name The New Zealand Railway and Locomotive Society, and go on to produce regular issues of The New Zealand Railway Observer. Issue 1 consisted of a few specialised articles and some general news as follows:

The New Zealand Correspondence Society.

Locomotive Developments in New Zealand, 1933 - 1943

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NZ Line-Speed Limits

News and Comments

• The Christchurch to Picton Mainline
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• Classification of Car Vans
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