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Full Name: The New Zealand Railway Observer

Issue Number: 11

Issue Date: October 1945

Volume and Number: 2/5

Pages: 16

Page Range: 67-82

Cover Image: n.a.

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CONTENTS

A Message from the President

The Main Line Gradients of New Zealand Railways Part 5 - T. A. McGavin

Society Notes

Passenger Rolling Stock Developments in New Zealand Part 5 - by C. L. S. Green

• Car_A1616

Coal Shortage - and Other Worries - by T. A. McGavin

Medium Gauge Railways

X_class_Locomotive Conversion - by T. A. McGavin

News, Notes and Comment

• Weed Killing Train
  • ex Car_A1270, ex K_Class_Wagon and ex Ub_class_wagon
• New PassengerCars
  • Car_A_1970 first in service
• New 40 ton well wagon
  • Wagon_Ud1501
• A 3ft Gauge railway in the USA
• The Sanson Tramway
• Passenger service withdrawn from Waimea Plains Branch from 17 September 1945
• Ed_class_locomotives

Locomotive Notes

• Ka_class_Loco's and Kb_class_loco's to have streamlining removed
• J_class_loco streamlining to remain
• Ja_class_loco's will not be streamlined
• Loco_Wab764
• A_class_locos now running on Tapanui Branch
• Waipahi Turntable lengthened by 2ft
• Heriot Turntable lengthened by 2ft

Trial run of two Standard Rail Cars coupled

American Built Locomotives in New Zealand

• K_class_2-4-2
• Loco_T101 and Loco_T102 went to Auckland in 1907 not Loco_T106
• Loco_N453 and Loco_N454 transferred to Westland about 1906
• Class_Ub_loco
• Loco_N352 only one fitted with slide valves
• Loco_Q350 remained in use after 1940

ERRATA

• X_class_loco's built at Addington, not by Prices as per