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Full Name: The New Zealand Railway Observer

Issue Number: 14

Issue Date: April 1946

Volume and Number: 3/2

Pages: 16

Page Range: 21-36

Cover Image: n.a.

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CONTENTS

Society Notes

• Affiliation with British Society

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

• Train_109
• Train_104
• Loco_Ab617
• Loco_Ab607
• Loco_Ab598

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

• Loco_H1 "Mount Cenis" renumbered to H199
• Loco_H2 "Mount Cook" renumbered to H200
• Loco_H3 "Mount Egmont" renumbered to H201
• Loco_H3 "Mount Tongariro" renumbered to H202
• Loco_H5 renumbered to H203
• Loco_H6 renumbered to H204
• Joy valve gear
• Mr J. Hosie Retired Driver
• Mr T Rotheram, Locomotive Superintendant
• Mr. T. Ronayne, Locomotive Superintendant
• Mr. Cooms, Draughtsman, Worksops Manager's Office

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

• Cabinet Approval 27/02/1946
• Includes completion of Deviation and double tracking
• New multiple units similar to Wellington - Johnsonville