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There are a small number of railways in New Zealand, primarily used to carry passengers for amusement purposes. They are of three different gauges: 10 1 ⁄ 2, 15 and 24 inch. Note that the national railway network uses 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) Cape gauge; see Rail transport in New Zealand.
The standard New Zealand track gauge, adopted a few years later, is 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) narrow gauge, but when the Kawakawa-Taumarere tramway was converted into a metal railway in 1870, it retained its gauge of 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in. In 1875, the government purchased the line and converted it to 3 ft 6 in gauge two years later. [12]
Members of the Federation of Rail Organisations of New Zealand: Railway museums, heritage lines, societies, clubs, trusts, etc., in New Zealand. This also include model engineering clubs and narrow gauge railways.
The Railways of New Zealand: A Journey through History (Second ed.). Transpress New Zealand. ISBN 0-908876-20-3. Heine, Richard W. (2000). Semaphore to CTC: Signalling and train working in New Zealand, 1863-1993. Wellington: New Zealand Railway & Locomotive Society. ISBN 0-908573-76-6. Hutchins, Graham (2019).
In 1981 NZR was corporatised as the New Zealand Railways Corporation, and in 1991 New Zealand Rail Limited was split from the corporation. New Zealand Rail was privatised in 1993 (and later renamed Tranz Rail), with the New Zealand Railways Corporation retaining the land (due to Treaty of Waitangi claims on land taken for railway construction ...
Rail transport in New Zealand is an integral part of New Zealand's transport network, with a nationwide network of 4,375.5 km (2,718.8 mi) of track linking most major cities in the North and South Islands, connected by inter-island rail and road ferries.
The railway was formed as the Bay of Islands Scenic Railway, a private company, in 1985 following the withdrawal of New Zealand Railways Corporation services beyond Otiria. [1] The service began with J 1211, [2] a hired J class locomotive that was brought from Wellington and is now owned by Mainline Steam. The railway proved popular with ...
The Canterbury Provincial Railways began to extend their 1,600 mm (5 ft 3 in) broad gauge network north from Christchurch through Kaiapoi (29 April 1872), [3] Southbrook (July 1872, [4] the extension to Rangiora being delayed by lack of chairs), [5] Rangiora (5 November 1872) [6] Balcairn (3 November 1875) [7] and Amberley (9 February 1876), [8 ...