New Zealand Railway and Locomotive Society

The New Zealand Railway and Locomotive Society Inc is a society of railway enthusiasts, based in Wellington. It was incorporated in 1958.
The society archives are in the Thomas McGavin Building on Ava railway station's former goods yard in the Hutt Valley. At one time an old railway carriage held at the Ngaio railway station was used.

WWW railsoc.org.nz

Publications

The society publishes a magazine, the New Zealand Railway Observer, that was first published by the New Zealand Railway Correspondence Society on a Gestetner in 1944, and a newsletter Turntable. The society publishes books on railway subjects. There are 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.

Rolling stock

The society owns steam locomotives A^B 608 and X 442.

Associated groups

The New Zealand Model Railway Guild was formed from the model railway section of the society. The Guild was incorporated as a separate incorporated society in 1967.