List of New Zealand railway museums and heritage lines
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Railway museumRailway museum
A railway museum is a museum that explores the history of all aspects of rail related transportation, including: locomotives , railway cars, trams, and railway signalling equipment.See List of railway museums...
s, heritage lines, societies, clubs, trusts, etc., in New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
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North Island
Northland- Bay of Islands Vintage Railway Charitable TrustBay of Islands Vintage RailwayThe Bay of Islands Vintage Railway Trust is a heritage railway in Kawakawa, in Northland in New Zealand. The railway operates on part of the former Opua Branch railway.-History:...
- Whangarei Steam & Model Railway Club
Auckland
Auckland
The Auckland metropolitan area , in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with residents, percent of the country's population. Auckland also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world...
- Glenbrook Vintage RailwayGlenbrook Vintage RailwayThe Glenbrook Vintage Railway is a steam railway in Glenbrook, New Zealand. One of New Zealand's premiere rail heritage sites, it is not a museum as such, but rather a fully self-supporting, operating steam railway, built almost entirely by volunteer labour...
- Railway Enthusiasts Society
- The Waitakere Tramline Society
- Watercare Services
- Western Springs Railway Museum of Transport and TechnologyMuseum of Transport and TechnologyThe Museum of Transport and Technology is a museum located in Western Springs, Auckland, New Zealand. It is located close to the Western Springs Stadium, Auckland Zoo and the Western Springs Park. The museum has large collections of civilian and military aircraft and other land transport vehicles...
- Western Springs Tramway Museum of Transport and TechnologyMuseum of Transport and TechnologyThe Museum of Transport and Technology is a museum located in Western Springs, Auckland, New Zealand. It is located close to the Western Springs Stadium, Auckland Zoo and the Western Springs Park. The museum has large collections of civilian and military aircraft and other land transport vehicles...
- Whangaparaoa Narrow Gauge Railway
Waikato
Waikato
The Waikato Region is a local government region of the upper North Island of New Zealand. It covers the Waikato, Hauraki, Coromandel Peninsula, the northern King Country, much of the Taupo District, and parts of Rotorua District...
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Coromandel, New Zealand
Coromandel is the name of a town and harbour on the western side of the Coromandel Peninsula, which is on the east coast of the North Island of New Zealand...
- Bush Tramway Club
- DFNZR DF class (1954)The NZR DF class of 1954 was the first class of mainline diesel-electric locomotives built for New Zealand's national railway network, built by English Electric...
1501 Restoration Charitable Trust - Driving Creek RailwayDriving Creek RailwayThe Driving Creek Railway is a narrow gauge bush and mountain railway on the outskirts of the provincial town of Coromandel on the northwestern coast of the Coromandel Peninsula on New Zealand's North Island...
- Goldfields RailwayGoldfields RailwayThe Goldfields Railway is a heritage railway that operates between Waihi and Waikino in the Bay of Plenty region of New Zealand's North Island. It operates over a section of track that was part of the East Coast Main Trunk Railway until the Kaimai Tunnel deviation made it redundant in 1978...
- Victoria Battery Tramway Society
- Te Aroha Mountain Railway
Bay of Plenty
Bay of Plenty
The Bay of Plenty , often abbreviated to BOP, is a region in the North Island of New Zealand situated around the body of water of the same name...
- Rotorua - Ngongotaha Rail Trust
- Geyserland Express Trust
East Cape
East Cape
East Cape is the easternmost point of the main islands of New Zealand. It is located to the north of Gisborne in the northeast of the North Island....
/ Hawke's Bay
- East Coast Museum of Technology
- Gisborne City Vintage Railway Inc
- Hawkes Bay Steam Society
- Ormondville Rail Preservation Group
Taranaki
- Hooterville Heritage Charitable Trust
- Pioneer Village Soc Inc
- Waitara Railway Preservation Society
Wairarapa
Wairarapa
Wairarapa is a geographical region of New Zealand. It occupies the south-eastern corner of the North Island, east of metropolitan Wellington and south-west of the Hawke's Bay region. It is lightly populated, having several rural service towns, with Masterton being the largest...
- Friends of the Fell Society Fell Engine MuseumFell Engine MuseumThe Fell Engine Museum in Featherston, New Zealand, is a museum based around the only remaining Fell railway locomotive in the world.This locomotive, number H 199, climbed up the Rimutaka Incline using John Barraclough Fell's unique method of four grip wheels on a raised center rail.H 199 is one...
Featherston - Pahiatua Railcar SocietyPahiatua Railcar SocietyThe Pahiatua Railcar Society is a society located in Pahiatua, New Zealand, dedicated to the restoration of railcars and other locomotives and rolling stock formerly operated by the New Zealand Railways Department...
- Wairarapa Railway Restoration SocietyWairarapa Railway Restoration SocietyThe Wairarapa Railway Restoration Society is a railway heritage and preservation community group in the town of Carterton, in the Wairarapa district of New Zealand's North Island...
, based at the Carterton Railway StationCarterton Railway StationCarterton Railway Station, in the Wairarapa district of New Zealand, is a single platform railway station in the town of Carterton. It is located at the corner of Cnr Broadway, Davy and Wheatstone Streets, near the main shopping precinct on State Highway 2...
Manawatu
- Feilding and District Steam Rail SocietyFeilding and District Steam Rail SocietyThe 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...
- Steamrail Wanganui Incorporated
Wellington
Wellington
Wellington is the capital city and third most populous urban area of New Zealand, although it is likely to have surpassed Christchurch due to the exodus following the Canterbury Earthquake. It is at the southwestern tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Rimutaka Range...
- Craven Crane Preservation Group
- Department of Conservation
- Mainline Steam Trust
- New Zealand Railway and Locomotive SocietyNew Zealand Railway and Locomotive SocietyThe New Zealand Railway and Locomotive Society Inc is a society of railway enthusiasts, based in Wellington.The Society publishes a magazine, the New Zealand Railway Observer and a newsletter Turntable. The Society publishes books on railway subjects. There are currently about 25 books available,...
(or see website) - Rail Heritage Trust of New Zealand
- Rimutaka Incline Railway Heritage TrustRimutaka Incline Railway Heritage TrustThe Rimutaka Incline Railway Heritage Trust is a non-profit, charitable trust in New Zealand that was established in 2003 with the objective of reinstating an operating heritage railway over the Rimutaka Ranges using the original route of the Wairarapa Line between Maymorn and Featherston,...
- Silver Stream RailwaySilver Stream RailwayThe Silver Stream Railway is a heritage railway at Silverstream in the Hutt Valley near Wellington, New Zealand. It regularly operates preserved New Zealand Railways Department locomotives along a restored section of the Hutt Valley Line before a deviation was built in 1954.- History :The...
- Steam Incorporated (Engine Shed - Paekakariki)
- Wellington and Manawatu Railway TrustWellington and Manawatu Railway TrustThe Wellington and Manawatu Railway Trust is a charitable trust based in Wellington, New Zealand, and is actively restoring former Wellington and Manawatu Railway locomotive No.9 , to full working order.-The trust:...
- Wellington Tramway MuseumWellington Tramway MuseumThe Wellington Tramway Museum is at Queen Elizabeth Park in New Zealand, near the overbridge at MacKays Crossing between Paekakariki and Paraparaumu, and has been operating trams there since 1965...
(or see website) - Paekakariki Station Precinct Trust
- Wellington CableCar Museum
South Island
NelsonNelson, New Zealand
Nelson is a city on the eastern shores of Tasman Bay, and is the economic and cultural centre of the Nelson-Tasman region. Established in 1841, it is the second oldest settled city in New Zealand and the oldest in the South Island....
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Marlborough, New Zealand
Marlborough is one of the regions of New Zealand, located in the northeast of the South Island. Marlborough is a unitary authority, both a region and a district, and its council is located at Blenheim. Marlborough is known for its dry climate, the picturesque Marlborough Sounds, and sauvignon blanc...
- Blenheim Riverside RailwayBlenheim Riverside RailwayThe Blenheim Riverside Railway is a narrow gauge heritage railway located in Blenheim, New Zealand and runs down the Taylor River which winds its way through the middle of the town...
- Nelson Railway SocietyNelson Railway SocietyThe Nelson Railway Society operates a short heritage railway line in the Founders Heritage Park, Nelson, New Zealand.The society has recovered and now utilises station buildings from a couple of former stations on the Nelson Section, including the Tui Railway Station building.The society uses a DSA...
Westland
- Charming Creek Railway
- Reefton Historic Trust Board
- West Coast Historical & Mechanical Society, ShantytownShantytown, New ZealandShantytown is a tourist attraction in the West Coast Region of the South Island of New Zealand. Located ten kilometres south of Greymouth, the town was constructed and opened in the early 1970s and consists of some thirty re-created historic buildings making up a 19th century gold-mining town...
- Westport Railway Preservation Society
Canterbury
Canterbury, New Zealand
The New Zealand region of Canterbury is mainly composed of the Canterbury Plains and the surrounding mountains. Its main city, Christchurch, hosts the main office of the Christchurch City Council, the Canterbury Regional Council - called Environment Canterbury - and the University of Canterbury.-...
- Ashburton Railway & Historical Society (Plains Vintage Railway)Plains Vintage RailwayThe Plains Vintage Railway is a heritage railway near Ashburton, New Zealand that operates on three kilometres of trackage that was once part of the Mount Somers Branch before it closed...
- Canterbury Railway SocietyCanterbury Railway SocietyThe Canterbury Railway Society is an organisation of railway enthusiasts based in the Canterbury region of New Zealand's South Island.-Beginnings:...
(Ferrymead RailwayFerrymead RailwayThe Ferrymead Railway is a New Zealand heritage railway built upon the formation of New Zealand's first public railway, the line from Ferrymead to Christchurch, which opened in 1863. On the opening of the line to Lyttelton on 9 December 1867, the Ferrymead Railway became the Ferrymead Branch and...
) - Canterbury Steam Preservation Society (McLeans Island Steamscene)
- Christchurch Tramway Ltd
- Diesel Traction Group
- Heritage Tramways Trust
- Pleasant Point Museum and RailwayPleasant Point Museum and Railwaythumb|right|Pleasant Point Museum and Railway YardThe Pleasant Point Museum and Railway is a narrow gauge heritage railway located in the small country town of Pleasant Point in southern Canterbury, New Zealand, inland from Timaru. Its main terminal is located at Pleasant Point station, which was...
- Tramway Historical Society (Ferrymead Tramway)
- Weka Pass RailwayWeka Pass RailwayThe Weka Pass Railway is a New Zealand heritage railway based in Waipara, North Canterbury. It is operated on a 12 km length of the former Waiau Branch railway between Waipara and Waikari. The railway is operated by an incorporated society whose members come from all walks of life and are largely...
Otago
Otago
Otago is a region of New Zealand in the south of the South Island. The region covers an area of approximately making it the country's second largest region. The population of Otago is...
- Oamaru Steam & Railway Restoration Society http://www.oamaru-steam.org.nz
- Otago Excursion Train Trust
- Otago Railway & Locomotive Society (Ocean Beach Railway)Ocean Beach RailwayThe Ocean Beach Railway is a heritage railway that operates in Dunedin, New Zealand. It is located between John Wilson Drive in the suburb of Saint Kilda and sports grounds near Forbury Park Raceway, and runs parallel with the city's main beach, Ocean Beach...
- Project Steam (Dunedin) Inc
- Taieri Gorge RailwayTaieri Gorge RailwayThe Taieri Gorge Railway is a railway line and tourist train operation based at Dunedin Railway Station in the South Island of New Zealand...
http://www.taieri.co.nz/
Southland
Southland Region
Southland is New Zealand's southernmost region and is also a district within that region. It consists mainly of the southwestern portion of the South Island and Stewart Island / Rakiura...
- Ohai Railway Board Heritage Trust
Other organisations
- Kingston FlyerKingston FlyerThe Kingston Flyer is a vintage steam train operating in the South Island of New Zealand at the southern end of Lake Wakatipu. It uses 14 kilometres of preserved trackage that once formed a part of the Kingston Branch.-History:...
- Ferrymead Heritage ParkFerrymead Heritage ParkFerrymead Heritage Park is a museum in Christchurch, New Zealand, housing a number of groups with historical themes, the most frequent of which is transport. Formerly known as Ferrymead Historic Park, it was founded in the mid-1960s by a number of groups, local government bodies and other...
- RM 133 Trust
- Otago Settlers MuseumOtago Settlers MuseumThe Otago Settlers Museum is a regional history museum in Dunedin, New Zealand. Its brief covers the territory of the old Otago Province, that is, New Zealand from the Waitaki River south. It is New Zealand's oldest and most extensive history museum...
has two steam engines on display