The Wairarapa Railway Restoration Society Inc. (WRRS) owns a small diesel shunting locomotive from the New Zealand TR class of locomotives. Most locomotives in this class have been removed from service. Our TR is numbered TR 724 (also known as TR 170). Up to 2018, TR 724 was stored at the Masterton Railway Station precinct when we were required to remove it from the precinct. We transported it by truck to the Carterton Railway Station precinct. The TR is now stored in a temporary building in the railway yard. The photograph below shows the TR a few years ago.
If you are interested in finding out more out the TR class of locomotives, you might like to search on the internet using the key words New Zealand TR class locomotive.
The next photograph, courtesy of Don Hodge, shows our six-person jigger being unloaded in the Carterton Railway yard. The WRRS is restoring the jigger. On the left side of the photograph, you can see part of the station building before it was painted in heritage colours. On the right in the background is the cattle wagon the WRRS owns.
The photograph below, taken by Philip Sharp, shows the bulk powder wagon BC732. The wagon was built in 1968 and numbered BC-4. It was renumbered as BC732 c1978 and written off in Wellington September, 1989.
Next is our four-wheel insulated wagon W1127. The wagon was built October 6, 1962 at the Otahuhu workshops and written off July, 1977 at the East Town workshops. The wagon had a capacity of 10 tons. The Waingawa station building is in the background.
The final two photographs were taken by Philip Sharp and show the WRRS’s cattle wagon, La highside wagon E5278 and the flatcar, designated as U416 in 1970 and re-designated as Ea3870 in 1970.
