Feilding and District Steam Rail Society
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The Feilding and District Steam Rail Society, also known as Feilding Steam Rail, is a railway preservation society located in Feilding in the Manawatu region of New Zealand. The society has restored or is presently restoring a number of locomotives and wagons once used on New Zealand's national rail network, with its star attraction currently being a WAB class tank locomotive, WAB 794. The society also has X 442 and F 163. Although nine members of the F class are preserved, this is the only one in mainline running condition. The society also possesses two small diesel shunters, DSA 227 and TR 13, along with a large mainline diesel locomotive, DA 1401, and a varied collection of rolling stock including both passenger and freight wagons.
The society's depot includes the turntable from Palmerston, a town in north Otago in the South Island, as well as the Taonui station building that used to be located near Feilding on the North Island Main Trunk Railway at the junction with the short-lived Taonui Branch.
Feilding Steam Rail operates excursions from its Feilding base to locations such as Wanganui, Ohakune, Dannevirke, and Pahiatua. When severe rainfall and floods caused destructive slips in the Manawatu Gorge in 2004, the society operated sightseeing trains through the Gorge.
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| Upper North Island | Bay of Islands Vintage Railway, Bush Tramway Club, Driving Creek Railway, Glenbrook Vintage Railway, Goldfields Railway, Mainline Steam, Museum of Transport and Technology, Railway Enthusiasts Society |
| Lower North Island | Feilding and District Steam Rail Society, Fell Engine Museum, Gisborne City Vintage Railway, New Zealand Railway and Locomotive Society, Ormondville Rail Preservation Society, Paekakariki Station Precinct Trust, Pahiatua Railcar Society, Rimutaka Incline Railway Heritage Trust, Silver Stream Railway, Steam Incorporated, SteamRail Wanganui, Waitara Railway Preservation Society, Wellington and Manawatu Railway Trust, Wellington Tramway Museum |
| South Island | Canterbury Railway Society, Diesel Traction Group, Ferrymead Railway, Kingston Flyer, Ocean Beach Railway, Ohai Railway Board, Plains Vintage Railway, Pleasant Point Museum and Railway, Project Steam, Taieri Gorge Railway (inc. Otago Excursion Train Trust), Weka Pass Railway, West Coast Historical and Mechanical Society (inc. Shantytown), Westport Railway Preservation Society |
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