The Annual General Meeting of the NZRLS will be held on Saturday 19 October 2024 starting at 2.00pm. The venue this year is the Upper Hutt Cosmopolitan Club, Logan Street, Upper Hutt. The club is easily accessible by car and by Metlink public transport. This year is the 80th anniversary of the founding of the… Read more »
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FRONZ September Issue
September 2024 Issue
McColl Sawmill Onehunga Extensions 1918-22 Drawings
We have recently scanned a collection of 42 drawings of extensions to the McColl Timber Co sawmill at Onehunga dating from 1918 to 1922. These came to the society from the late Alan Bellamy. The company was located directly in front of the Onehunga Railway Station, with a private siding accessed by a turnout alongside… Read more »
Progress on WMR Carriages Restoration
In June our restoration team was making good progress on restoring WMR 48 to as near its as-built condition of 1906 as possible. Work is in hand on: Progressing with completing the electrical fit-out; Hanging the interior doors, two swing doors between saloons and the corridor past the toilet, and that into the toilet compartment;… Read more »
New Zealand Railways At Night written by Bill Prebble – Available Now!
New Zealand Railways At Night seeks to redress a void in our written history, covering the night railway as experienced in the period from the mid-1920s through to 1982, when the Government railway was corporatised, a period when many New Zealanders’ chose the railway as their principal form of transport. This was a time when… Read more »
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