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New Zealand Railway and Locomotive Society
AbbreviationNZR&LS
FormationIncorporated as a society: July 31, 1958; 66 years ago (1958-07-31)[1]
TypeIncorporated Society
HeadquartersThe Thomas McGavin Building
North Street
Petone
Location
  • Mailing address: The New Zealand Railway and Locomotive Society Inc,
    1A North Street,
    Petone,
    Lower Hutt 5012, New Zealand
AffiliationsFederation of Rail Organisations of New Zealand (FRONZ)
Websiterailsoc.org.nz

The New Zealand Railway and Locomotive Society Inc (NZRLS) is a society of railway enthusiasts, based in Wellington.

The Society publishes a magazine, the New Zealand Railway Observer (ISSN 0028-8624) and a newsletter Turntable. The Society publishes books on railway subjects. There are currently about 25 books available, as listed on the website. Most are about New Zealand railways, but there is a book Cane Trains about railways in Fiji.

For contact details, including addresses of local representatives throughout New Zealand and in England, see the Society website.

The Society archives are in the Thomas McGavin Building on the Ava railway station's former goods yard in the Hutt Valley.[2] At one time an old railway carriage held at the Ngaio railway station was used.[3]

The Society was preceded by The New Zealand Railway Correspondence Society, which had started publishing a typed Observer on a Gestetner in 1944.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Certificate of Incorporation - New Zealand Railway and Locomotive Society". Registrar of Incorporated Societies. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
  2. ^ Parsons, David (2010). Wellington’s Railway: Colonial Steam to Matangi. Wellington: New Zealand Railway & Locomotive Society. p. 141. ISBN 978-0-908573-88-2.
  3. ^ Hermann, Bruce J (2007). North Island Branch Lines. Wellington: New Zealand Railway & Locomotive Society. p. 66. ISBN 978-0-908573-83-7.
  4. ^ "That Very First 'New Zealand Railway Observer'". NZRLS. 25 November 2013. Retrieved 1 June 2020.