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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 7, Issue 5 (September 1, 1932)

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In the following article, Mr. W. R. Davidson, formerly Assistant Chief Engineer of the New Zealand Railways, gives an interesting historical sketch of the railways of the Thames Valley, and tells how railway transport has assisted settlement, and the development of industry in that fertile area in the North Island.

The year 1930 saw a comprehensive report by a Royal Commission upon the economic standing of the railways in our national life.

It is interesting to note that exactly fifty years earlier, in the year 1880, just such another Commission was appointed to enquire into the prospects, present and future, of the railways.

These two Commissions had a somewhat different outlook. One dealt with the difficulties and uncertainties of youth with all the future before it, the other with the oppositions and contentions of manhood—albeit still a useful, lusty manhood.