Observer24
Full Name: The New Zealand Railway Observer
Issue Number: 24
Issue Date: December 1947
Volume and Number: 4/6
Pages: 24
Page Range: 121-144
Cover Image: n.a.
CONTENTS
Society Notes
REPORT of Auckland Discussion on improving Passenger Services in New Zealand
ARTICLE: - The Dunedin and Port Chalmers Railway. - by T. A. McGavin
ARTICLE: New Zealand Locomotive Performance
- Ja_class_loco
- Kb_class_loco
- Ka_class_loco oil burner
Mr. H. H. Jackson, CME 1914 - 1919 Loco_Ab820 and Loco_Ab828's especially fast run with a 13 total Express departed from Frankton 16 minutes late got to Auckland on time in January 1933. 64.7mph over 2.3 miles average Papatoetoe - Otahuhu Loco_Ab804 with a 12 total Express departed Timaru 24 minutes late, but gained 10 minutes including an extra stop. Included 3.5 miles north from Bankside at 65mph
Locomotive Notes
- Loco_Ja1246 new ex Hillside 6/11/1947. Makers Nnumber 369/1946. Curiously, all Ja_class_loco's to date have makers dates of 1946
- Loco_Ab789, formerly Wab_789 ex Hillside towards end of August 1947 retaining Builders number 246. Since then, loco_Ab786 - 798 have also been out-shopped, with 791 and 795 being worked on and 793 expected to enter Hillside before Christmas.
- Oil burning conversions
- Loco_Ka951 ex Hutt 16/06/1947
- Loco_Ka946 ex Hutt 26/06/1947
- Loco_Ka952 ex Hutt 10/10/1947
- Loco_Ka920 ex Hutt 7/11/1947
- Loco_Ka937 ex Otahuhu 6/08/1947
- Loco_Ka938 ex Otahuhu 29/08/1947
- Loco_Ka960 ex Otahuhu 6/10/1947