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

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