This weeks article is from the New Zealand Railway Observer Volume 30, No 2, Winter 1973 and is: Locomotives and Their Performance No 30 – The Baldwin Locomotives of the Wellington and Manawatu Railway by A.N. Palmer   Article 39, Volume 30, No 2, Winter 1973 Each week a new Article from early issues of the… Read more »

This weeks article is from the New Zealand Railway Observer Volume 30, No 2, Winter 1973 and is: Fifty Years of the Otira Tunnel – Its Conception and Construction as Reported in 1923 with an introduction by T.A. McGavin  Article 38, Volume 30, No 2, Winter 1973 Each week a new Article from early issues… Read more »

This weeks article is from the New Zealand Railway Observer Volume 30, No 1, Autumn 1973 and is: Locomotives and Their Performances No. 29 – New Trains Show Their Paces  – Smart Work on the Manawatu Line By T.A. McGavin  Article 37, Volume 30, No 1, Autumn 1973 Each week a new Article from early… Read more »

This weeks article is from the New Zealand Railway Observer Volume 30, No 1, Autumn 1973 and is: Steam Finale – When a South Island “Ja” Went North – N. Cooper Recounts  Article 36, Volume 30, No 1, Autumn 1973 Each week a new Article from early issues of the New Zealand Railway Observers will… Read more »

This weeks article is from the New Zealand Railway Observer Volume 30, No 1, Autumn 1973 and is: A Scenic Bush Railway – Impressions of a New Zealand Saw Mill by A.P. Godber, ex Assistant Machine Shop Foreman, NZR  Article 35, Volume 30, No 1, Autumn 1973 Each week a new Article from early issues… Read more »