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« on: May 14, 2016, 08:20:07 pm »

A month or so back.
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« Reply #1 on: May 15, 2016, 10:29:53 am »

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« Reply #2 on: May 15, 2016, 11:37:51 am »

I recall as a child, the whistle of the shunting engines at the New Plymouth yards.  We lived miles away on the other side of town [Upper Westown] and we knew it was going to rain when we heard them. [of course what it was primarily, was that the wind was from the north.  Cheesy]

I still get a nostalgic shiver when I see one of these beautiful old behemoths pounding down the line, pouring out smoke and steam............
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« Reply #3 on: May 15, 2016, 01:05:29 pm »


I grew up in Hastings, where K and Ka locomotives ruled the roost.

When I was a kid, I thought they were HUGE, and I guess they really were.

There was one train per day passed through Hastings heading south pulled by English Electric diesel-electric locomotives (with a north-bound diesel-hauled train passing through town during the wee hours of the morning), but they weren't anywhere near as interesting as those big K and Ka steam locomotives.

Then, around 1963, General Motors Da-class diesel-electric locomotives started appearing in Hawke's Bay and within four years, all of the steam locomotives had disappeared.


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« Reply #4 on: May 15, 2016, 01:51:52 pm »

I guess I started to take note late 40's, and the 50's were my childhood years.
The only thing but steam on the lines back then were the Fiat railcars.
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« Reply #5 on: May 15, 2016, 03:52:14 pm »

LOL I must be too young!

Wikipedia reckons the last stream train in the North Island was in 1971. I was a preschooler then and I never saw a steam train outside of a preservation society.

Dad has a slide of one running through Ngaruawahia taken when my parents were returning from their honeymoon only a few months after decimal currency. He thinks if that wasn't the last one it was just about.
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« Reply #6 on: May 15, 2016, 04:21:22 pm »


December 1967 was when the last steam locomotives operated in the North Island. I understand the last steam workings in the North Island were between Hamilton and Tauranga over the old route through the Karangahape Gorge. Steam locomotives disappeared from Hawke's Bay about the middle of 1967. The last steam locomotive I can recall seeing in Hastings was an oil-fired North British Ja on a freight train shunting the north end of Hastings yard one Sunday evening during the winter of 1967. They were getting fairly scarce by then, and I can distinctly recall thinking they wouldn't be around for much longer, and as it turned out, that was the last time I saw a steam locomotive on a train in Hastings.

Most of the South Island saw the end of steam by the end of 1968, although the passenger trains between Christchurch, Dunedin and Invercargill continued to be steam-hauled until 1971.
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