New Zealand Railways 1899

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New Zealand Railways – The Railway Magazine, November 1899.

The November 1899 issue of The Railway Magazine carried the first of a short series of articles about the railways of New Zealand. As you will discover if you choose to read on, the author does not hold back on offering his personal opinions about the state of the railways and choices made by the government of the day for the country’s railways.


It is a pity that I do not have access to the subsequent article(s) about New Zealand’s Railways nor to any debate that the article may have provoked.

It might be interesting to hear some present day reflections on the comments the author makes!

The article is also of interest for an introduction to the rather unusual decisions taken by the Southland government about its first railway.
 



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