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Full Name: The New Zealand Railway Observer

Issue Number: 4

Issue Date: August 1944

Volume and Number: 1/4

Pages: 8

Page Range: 23-30

Cover Image: n.a.

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CONTENTS

New Zealand Express Train Services in 1943 - "Student"

New Zealand Locomotive Performance Pt 3 - by T. A. McGavin

• Ab_Class_loco
• Kb_class_loco
• loco_Ab831
• loco_Ab837
• loco_Ab758

News and Comment

• Railway Construction in the Hutt Valley
• Interest in Tramways sought

Locomotive Notes

• The following were sold to Tasmanian Railways in 1939
  • Loco_Wf381
  • Loco_Wf385
  • Loco_Wf436
  • Loco_Wf437

• The following were sold to Tasmanian Railways in 1944
  • Loco_Wf392
  • Loco_Wf405
  • Loco-Wf431
  • Loco_Wf434

• Loco_K953, the 29^th of its class has just entered service
• Of the four B class locomotives, three have now been converted to We class for use on the Rewanui Incline
  • Loco_B198 converted in 1902, renumbered and classified to loco We376 in 1942
  • Loco_B308 not converted
  • Loco_B309 converted in 1943 and renumbered and classified to Loco We375
  • Loco_B377 converted and renumbered in 1902, reclassified to Loco We377 in 1943

• Over 30 of the 56 A_class_'Pacifics' have been converted from 4 cylinder compound to 2 cylinder simple propulsion

Model Railway Jottings