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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 6, Issue 1 (May 1, 1931)

Romance in Railways

Romance in Railways.

I shall not pursue the subject of clothes: for the time being I am a keen railway man, my enthusiasm dating from my last visit to the headquarters of the R.S.R.R., and I am satisfied now that there is sufficient romance in railway locomotive development and history to interest even the most unmechanical mind, if the material be presented in suitable form. Blue prints and departmental books of records are available to a very limited number of people, but few even of those so privileged are sufficiently interested to study the subject. Photographs are undoubtedly more arresting to the attention, but departmental records in photographs do not include what might be termed action pictures, the old engines in their most interesting settings with the train crews of those days gathered about. Nor do the records make mention of the crack drivers of forty or fifty years ago, or of the stories which their names revive. This is where there has been opportunity for an enthusiast to gather the material while it is available, and this is where the record side of the R.S.R.R. (in the care of Mr. W. W. Stewart) has done, and is still doing, work, the value of which will be better appreciated as the years roll by.