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 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 then 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 time 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 where we eventually hope to have an extended summary of each article:

Railfan Articles by John Agnew covering NZ passenger carriages

Issue	Date	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	-	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