Feilding and District Steam Rail Society
- Feilding and District Steam Rail Society
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.
External links
* [http://www.steamrail.org.nz/ Official website of the Feilding and District Steam Rail Society]
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