The Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company was a private railway company that operated the railway between Thorndon in Wellington, the capital of New Zealand, and Longburn, near Palmerston North in t
W&MR No.9 locomotive (later reclassified as an N class) in service at Paekākāriki c. 1900.
Thorndon Railway Station c.1900 opened 1886, closed 18 June 1937
W&MR locomotive no 7 arriving with the mail train from Wellington at Longburn, c. 1888. The train to Foxton waits on the other platform.
Shannon Railway Station
The Wellington and Manawatu Railway Trust is a charitable trust based in Wellington, New Zealand, and is actively restoring former Wellington and Manawatu Railway locomotive No.9, to full working orde
Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company
…number of relics have survived. Of the locomotives, only No. 9 (later NZR N 453) is known to exist, the remains of which were recovered in 2003 by the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Trust. It is under active restoration at Steam Incorporated, Paekākāriki. Sister locomotive No. 10 is believed to have been dumped complete along the Midland…
No.9s tender chassis reassembled and on the rails for the first time since it was dumped. Taken on 21 May 2009.