Members can now find ALL the documents for the upcoming NZRLS Annual General Meeting being held this Saturday 17 October under the Members Section.

This weeks article is from the New Zealand Railway Observer Volume 31, No 4, Summer 1974-75 and is: Locomotives and Their Performance, No, 32 – The Wairarapa Railcars by T.A. McGavin  Article 53, Volume 31, No 4, Summer 1974-75 Each week a new Article from early issues of the New Zealand Railway Observers will be… Read more »

Members can find Notice of the meeting along with new papers for the AGM under the Members menu.

At last, the story has commenced about Westland’s fascinating sawmills and bush tramways, with the first two books of a series covering sawmills and tramways of the Grey and Westland counties.  Ian Tibbles takes us on a journey through Stillwater, Coal Creek, the Grey district coalfield and lower Arnold Valley through to Kaimata, with these… Read more »

Since our last report for the web site, we have been working mainly on the finishing of restoring WMR No 48 and on repairing rot in the framing of No 52. WMR 48 The interior of WMR 48 is substantially complete. Slow progress has been made on incomplete exterior work: Most castings and the springs… Read more »