Trains & Rail

1973. Produced for the Auckland to Onehunga Railway centennial covering the history of the line and some of the locomotives that worked on it.

1992. A directory and handbook of the locomotives in use in New Zealand.

1961. Year book of the Railway Enthusiasts' Society.

1960. Year book of the Railway Enthusiasts' Society.

1964. Yearbook for the Railway Enthusiasts' Society.

1966. Yearbook for the Railway Enthusiasts' Society.

1976. A review of New Zealand Rail for the year ended 31st March.

1974. 1st edition. In 1974, Melbourne was the only city in the English-speaking world with an extensive and still-thriving tramway system.

1976. Fascinating history of the construction and operation of the Cairns Railway, both main and branch lines.

undated. New Zealand rail history devoted to preserving the last years of steam trains in New Zealand for present and future generations.

2015. 1st edition. A book commemorating the Wellington Tramway Museum from 1965-2015.

2001. 1st edition. New Zealand rail history covering 125 years of railway motive power classification in New Zealand.

1984. A history of the Hamilton railway bridge in the Waikato.

1946. Former railwayman Thomas Haughey describes various anecdotes from decades of experience with New Zealand Rail, combined with some solid history of English rail as well.

1989. New Zealand rail history.

1997. Fascinating pictorial essay of the cable cars and electric tramways that crisscrossed Dunedin, New Zealand during the 1950s.

c 1980s. This collection of writings from an author who has contributed to many magazines and newspapers centres on Blackball, on the West Coast, where her father was stationed as a guard.

1975. A booklet using some of the many photographs that appeared in the pages of 'The Express', the monthly news magazine that appeared over a period of seven years, 1963 - 1970.

1993. An interesting selection of black and white and colour photographs depicting diesel-hauled trains at work in the South Island landscape during the 1970s and and 1980s.

1995. 1st edition. A collection of funny and fascinating stories about the folklore of our railways. Many will make you laugh, others are remarkable and heroic.

2003. Bob Reid's story with New Zealand Rail - of cleaning, firing and driving steam locos; of coming to grips with the diesels, of driving railcars and life as a NZR supervisor.

1995. 1st edition. A pictorial documentary of the years 1955-1995 on New Zealand railways

1980. An album of tramcars, those marvellous 'electric land-galleons' that travelled out streets providing a public transport service that became an essential part of our everyday life.

1978. 1st edition. A fascinating history of the construction of New Zealand's Kaimai Tunnel on the East Coast Main Trunk Railway.

1990. 1st edition. A collection of funny and fascinating stories about the folklore of our railways.

1980. Guidebook to the National Railways Museum of Zimbabwe.

1997. History of steam trains in New Zealand, covering branch lines and technical information. Includes a compilation of over 190 of the best colour photos taken of New Zealand steam locomotives.

1999. A pictorial smorgasbord of 176 photographs of Wellington streets as they grew and developed through the 20th century.

1998. Detailed and entertaining history of the New Zealand bush trams that brought the logs to market. SIGNED & SCARCE.

1998. Wonderful collection of many of W. W. "Bill" Stewart's oil paintings of New Zealand locomotives made over the course of many decades.

1985. Fantastic item of New Zealand Rail history.

1998. 1st edition. The author's experience on travelling. A good story, especially as some trains have stopped operating.

1984. 1st edition. The Foxton and Wanganui Railway evolved from a wooden tramway opened on 25 July 1873 for traffic between Foxton and Palmerston North.

2015. A before-and-after chronicle of the upgrades to Auckland's New Lynn railway station.

1981. Publication issued by the West Auckland Historical Society to commemorate a century of trains in Henderson, Auckland.

1973. Independent monthly magazine for rail enthusiasts.

2000. 1st edition. A bibliography intended as a celebration of the efforts of all the writers and publishers who have contributed to the New Zealand literature on these subjects.

2014. A rich, loving and lavish record of how New Zealanders have interacted with trains and railways since first European settlement to more recent times.

1987. A study of locomotives in New Zealand.

2012, 1st edition. British rail history.

2000. A pictorial history of the railways around Stafford.

1967. History of the early trams in Christchurch.

1984. New Zealand rail locomotive history concerning two salvaged locomotives from the West Coast of New Zealand.

1970. 1st edition. New Zealand Steam Railway history. SIGNED.

1975. New Zealand rail history.

1983. 1st edition. British rail history illustrated with monochrome images.

1968. Vintage booklet on New Zealand trams and rail history.

1967. Vintage booklet on New Zealand trams and rail history.

1968. Vintage booklet on New Zealand trams and rail history.

1968. Vintage booklet on New Zealand trams and rail history.

1966. Vintage booklet on New Zealand trams and rail history.

1967. Vintage booklet on New Zealand trams and rail history.

1966. Vintage booklet on New Zealand trams and rail history.

1968. Vintage booklet on New Zealand trams and rail history.

1967. Vintage booklet on New Zealand trams and rail history.

1967. Vintage booklet on New Zealand trams and rail history.

1968. Vintage booklet on New Zealand trams and rail history.

1966. Vintage booklet on New Zealand trams and rail history.

1967. Vintage booklet on New Zealand trams and rail history.

1966. Vintage booklet on New Zealand trams and rail history.

1967. Vintage booklet on New Zealand trams and rail history.

1966. Vintage booklet on New Zealand trams and rail history.

1964. Octopus edition of Snell's 1964 account of railway history up to WW1.

1949. Vintage technical and reference on rail history.

1969. 1st edition. Describes the fascinating transition from early inventor's development models and instrument maker's patent and exhibition models to the modern commercially produced ones.

2011. Describes the halcyon days of New Zealand rail.

1966. Vintage booklet on New Zealand trams and rail history.

1978. A saga of steam trains from 1863 to 1901.|Covers the old steam railway lines from Christchurch to Ferrymead, Invercargill, Wellington, and the Far North.

1980. An album of old and familiar faces, of the unsung workhorses of New Zealand's railways.

1990. 1st edition. Local railway history in New Zealand.

1989. New Zealand rail history.

1994. Beautiful, full color photos of New Zealand steam locomotives from 1955-1971.

1982. New Zealand rail history.

1996. 1st edition. A history of the Dun Mountain Railway, which gave access to several of the copper and chromite mines east of Nelson city.

1975. 1st edition. A fascinating and unsentimental look at the development of British steam locomotives.

1968. Rare Christchurch tram ephemera.

2009. 1st edition. Describes the manufacturing processes and tools used in railroad construction.

2011. The first of three special titles being published by Silver Link to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the Talyllyn Railway in 2011.

2016. 1st edition. New Zealand Railways (NZR) was one the most valuable assets available to the government during WW1.

1910. Originally published by Industrial Publications in 1910, part of the Machinery's Reference Series.

1973. 1st edition. Experiences during a decade on the footplate during the depression years, living in the Railway Company huts in the North Island high country.

1971. 1st edition. Part of the How to Run series - vintage book on railway construction and operations.

1980. A Lodestar Press farewell to steam trains.

1987. A presents candid accounts of the author's 40 years as an engine driver based in Palmerston North between 1943 and 1983.

1967. 1st edition. The stories and experiences of a railway enthusiast who spent hundreds of hours riding the rails throughout NZ during their glory days of steam and diesel.

1994. 1st edition. SIGNED. Detailed history of the buildings and yards of the Hawkes Bay line in New Zealand.

1990. 1st edition. History of the Otago Central Railway.

1963. Photo book containing a painting by W W Stewart, published for the centenary of New Zealand Railways 1963.

1972. Railway history.

2009. First published in 1958, the story of the only family saga which is based around a Welsh narrow gauge railway.

2009. 1st edition. The first book to document Addington's leading role in the manufacture and repair of rolling stock for New Zealand Railways.

1956. A review of nearly 120 different types of locomotive that have seen use on the New Zealand Government Railways.

1962. The pageant of 50 years development - from steam and semaphore signals to colour lights, diesels, and 25kV electrics.

1985. 1st edition. SIGNED. From the author of The End of the Penny Section comes an illustrated history of the birth and evolution of the tramcar in New Zealand.

1973. Fully revised and enlarged 1993.

1997. 1st edition.

1996. 1st edition. From the author of The End of the Penny Section comes the in-depth story of the New Zealand tram as a public transport vehicle.

1999. Although published in 1999 when the WHR ran only from Caernarfon to Dinas, John Stretton covers the whole route through to Porthmadog.

2011. 1st edition. Railway history, celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Talyllyn Railway in 2011.

2012. Railway history.

2020. British railway history

1974. 1st edition. History of the Hawke's Bay Railway.

2006.

1995. Traces the history of trains including all important developments in the history of the train.

2000. 1st edition. Airplanes, trains, bicycles, rickshaws, sailboats, ocean liners, automobiles, even the Zeppelin - a book of memorable images of these ingenious inventions.

1975. 1st edition. A commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the opening of the Stockton & Darlington Railway- the first public railway in the world.