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    The NZR BB class of steam locomotives comprised 30 engines operated by the New Zealand Railways (NZR) in the North Island of New Zealand. Ordered to replace...
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  • reporting mark BB, in Virginia, U.S. Bürgenstock Funicular (Bürgenstock-Bahn), a Swiss funicular railway NZR BB class, a New Zealand locomotive class B-B, a classification...
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    trains. It is currently undergoing a 10-year overhaul. NZR B class (1899) NZR BB class NZR BC class Locomotives of New Zealand Palmer & Stewart 1965, p. 112...
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    The NZR JA class was a class of fifty-one 4-8-2 steam locomotives operated by the New Zealand Railways Department (NZR). The locomotives were built in...
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    class was an enlarged version of the B class. A total of 57 of them were built, and two have been preserved. NZR BA class NZR BB class NZR BC class Locomotives...
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    The ADL class is a class of diesel multiple units that were last operated by Auckland One Rail on the suburban rail network in Auckland, New Zealand. Originally...
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    (NZR). The class is widely used in both the North and South Islands of New Zealand, mainly for heavy yard shunting, although some members of the class...
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    NZR A class were a class of steam locomotives built in 1906 with a 4-6-2 wheel arrangement for the New Zealand Railways Department (NZR). The class should...
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    The DQ and QR class were a class of diesel locomotives in New Zealand and Tasmania, Australia. Originally built by Clyde Engineering in the 1960s as Queensland...
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    Parsons, David. New Zealand Railway Motive Power 2002. Media related to NZR ADK class at Wikimedia Commons Portals: Trains New Zealand Western Australia...
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    The NZR WF class were steam locomotives designed, built and used by New Zealand Railways (NZR). Their wheel arrangement is described by the Whyte notation...
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    The NZR C class consisted of twenty-four steam locomotives built to perform shunting duties on New Zealand's national rail network. It is sometimes known...
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    locomotives for NZR in 1903 and 1906. Later in the 1950s and 1960s they manufactured a number of diesel shunting locomotives for the NZR, the TR class, and some...
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    passenger express train operated by the New Zealand Railways Department (NZR) between Wellington and New Plymouth. It ran from 1886 until 1955 and was...
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  • various operators connecting to the national rail network: Similar to the NZR DS class: Drewry 2248/1947 was built for the Ohai Railway Board as their NO 1...
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    on New Zealand's railway network. The carriages generally replaced older NZR 56-foot carriages, some of which had been in use for almost 70 years. The...
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  • company purchased two further locomotives from the NZR, a pair of Baldwin Locomotive Works WD class 2-6-4T tank locomotives. WD 316 (Baldwin 18543/1901)...
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    [citation needed] Ten BA class locomotives were built by the NZR at its Addington shops between 1911 and 1913, and thirty BB class locomotives were built...
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  • Wairarapa, WA class locomotives hauled a feeder service between Palmerston North and Woodville. Following a trial run in 1938, NZR RM class Standard railcars...
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    Rotowaro is Māori for "coal lake". When handed over from Public Works to NZR in 1915 it was called the Awaroa Branch, but was also known as the Glen Afton...
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  • Year Series issued 1981–2014 NZA-NZG (NZH, NZJ-NZN, NZP, NZR-NZZ series skipped) 2016-present* NZA-NZB (New series)...
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    the UC class, although there is one example of each of the UCA and URK wagons preserved. The group also has a number of KP, ZA, and ZL class box wagons...
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  • isolated from the rest of the NZR system, it was known as the Gisborne section (later the Palmerston North–Gisborne Line) of the NZR. Once Gisborne was linked...
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    the members who also worked on NZR at the time. The whole project was repeated the following year when sister WW class locomotive 644 ran the same journey...
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    either side, but casement windows to the south. In 1921 it was proposed that NZR take over the refreshment rooms. In 1968 the corrugated iron refreshment...
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    built in 1912 by Andrew Barclay Sons & Co. of Kilmarnock, Scotland as Class BB. It was an 'Improved Meyer' design with a 0-4-4-0T wheel arrangement and...
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  • signals controlled via gainstock levers located at the station building. Four NZR built railway staff houses were also located on Queen Street bordering the...
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  • site, excavated; remains of hundreds of bodies located. January 29 – NZR V class steam locomotive no. 127 (1885) is recovered from the Oreti River in...
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