Ferrymead Railway and Diesel Traction Group locomotives and carriages have participated in each of these steam-based festivals, held on the Weka Pass Railway, except for the 2003 event.

The Weka Pass Railway, Bay of Islands Vintage Railway, Taieri Gorge Railway and Goldfields Steam Train Society took over parts of old lines in Canterbury, Northland, Otago and the Bay of Plenty respectively.

* Information from the Weka Pass Railway on the preserved members of the original A class built by Dübs & Co .:

* Information from the Weka Pass Railway on the preserved members of the F class built by Dübs & Co .:

The line passes through Weka Pass into the Amuri district, travelling north through the region, west of Culverden, to Hanmer Springs.

The Weka Pass Railway is a New Zealand heritage railway based in Waipara, North Canterbury.

The first stage of the Waiau Branch line inland through the Weka Pass to Waikari was completed in 1882.

A public meeting at Waipara in August 1982 saw a steering committee established to investigate the Weka Pass Railway proposal.

There had been interest from a number of people in preserving part of this old branch line particularly in the scenic Weka Pass.

The second decade of the Weka Pass Railway has been one largely of consolidation of the previous work, rather than major developments.

The Weka Pass Railway owns approximately 13 km of branch line track between Waipara and its terminus at Waikari.

The group's main locomotive, A 428 is owned by the A 428 Preservation Society, but leased to the Weka Pass Railway in 1983.

Other wagons include examples of stock wagons, several vans including two representatives of the Z class ' roadsider ' vans, tank wagons, and eight Y < sup > B </ sup >/ Y < sup > C </ sup > ballast wagons, which are kept in working order for track maintenance duties through the Weka Pass.

However, it is nominally part of the WPR fleet, and is used to get large machinery up into the Weka Pass.

With the little locomotive of no use, Weka Pass received approval from Ravensdown Fertiliser ( who had taken over Kempthorne Prosser ) to sell the locomotive to the Plains Railway at Ashburton, who have since restored it in NZR livery as ' T < sup > R </ sup > 119 '.

While DG 2451 was cut up in 1990 by Sims Pacific Metal, the hulk of DG 2376 was sold to Weka Pass for spare parts.

* Weka Pass Railway website

Current operations of the heritage railway type include the Glenbrook Vintage Railway, Bush Tramway Club, Waitara Railway Preservation Society, Weka Pass Railway, and Taieri Gorge Railway.

The Weka Pass Railway at 13 km is the most lengthy of these.

* Waiau Branch, a Canterbury branch line railway in service from 1882 to 1978: see also Weka Pass Railway

The Weka Pass Railway has its base in Waipara, and runs on 12 kilometres of track between here and Waikari over the former route of the Waiau Branch, a branch line railway that diverged from the Main North Line and ran to Waiau.

Western Weka photographed on the West Coast, New Zealand near Karamea.

Distinguished by dark red-brown and black streaking on the breast, the Western Weka has two distinct colour phases, that of the southernmost range showing a greater degree of black.

Weka are problematic in conservation ; some subspecies are threatened, but have been a problem to other threatened wildlife on offshore islands, especially when introduced to an island that they would not naturally inhabit.

The town has many landmarks including Kapiti College, in which Peter Jackson ( New Zealand Filmmaker ) and Christian Cullen ( Rugby Union Footballer ) received their education, St. Mark's Church, the vast sandy beach ( popular for walks, fishing and people on holiday ), The Raumati Beach Shopping Village, Kapiti Island and Weka Park.

* The Marias Pass route, in the United States depicting the BNSF Railway's Hi-Line Subdivision between Shelby, Montana and Whitefish, Montana, with C44-9W and GP38-2 locomotives.

Stevens ' was already well known for his location of the Great Northern Railway's line across Montana's Marias Pass, and would soon go on to plan the Panama Canal at the behest of Theodore Roosevelt.

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Pass At Red, page 6

* Popular Science, November 1943, " Ducking Bridge " Lowers Span To Allow Ships To Pass built in Iraq in 1943 ( bottom-right hand side of page )

First year students are enrolled in first-term classes based upon results of placement exams in math, physics, chemistry, and writing and take all classes in their first two terms on a Pass / Fail basis.

While acting as the shooter, a player must have a bet on the " Pass " line or the " Don't Pass " line.

The game is played in rounds and these " Pass " and " Don't Pass " bets are betting on the outcome of a round.

In 1976 Oscar Peterson played ( with Joe Pass on acoustic guitar ) songs from Porgy And Bess on the clavichord.

The first Europeans to see Deception Pass were members of the 1790 expedition of Manuel Quimper on the Princesa Real.

A group of sailors led by Joseph Whidbey, part of the Vancouver Expedition, found and mapped Deception Pass on June 7, 1792.

Upon completion on July 31, 1935, the span Deception Pass Bridge connected Whidbey Island to the tiny Pass Island, and Pass Island to Fidalgo Island.

Fishing is popular in Pass Lake, on the north side of the bridge.

Seattle grunge band Mudhoney named a song on their 1993 EP Five Dollar Bob's Mock Cooter Stew " Deception Pass.

Among the many problems he faced was repelling Sikh encroachment on the Pashtun areas east of the Khyber Pass.

Major General Sir Frederick Roberts led the Kabul Field Force over the Shutargardan Pass into central Afghanistan, defeated the Afghan Army at Char Asiab on 6 October 1879 and occupied Kabul.

Using the civil unrest in India as an excuse to move troops to the Durand Line, Afghan troops crossed the border at the western end of the Khyber Pass on 3 May 1919 and occupied the village of Bagh, the scene of an earlier uprising in April.

The crossing of the St. Bernard Pass had allowed the French to surprise the Austrian army and win victory at the Battle of Marengo on 14 June 1800.

The second part, " They Shalt Not Pass ", was based on a short film No Pasaran!

Eastern Washington has a much drier climate than Western Washington, and some Seattle-area residents have moved to the city and commute over Snoqualmie Pass on Interstate 90 to jobs located in the Puget Sound region.

In 1837, the Afghan army descended through the Khyber Pass on Sikh forces at Jamrud.

Members of the expedition were to discover South Pass, through which hundreds of thousands of settlers on the Oregon, California and Mormon trails passed through the Rocky Mountains.

After the Italo-German summit at the Brenner Pass on 18 March 1940, which was attended by Hitler and Mussolini, Count Ciano wrote in his diary: " Everyone in Rome dislikes Ribbentrop ".

Frémont was preparing to lead his first expedition and was looking for a guide to take him to South Pass on the Continental Divide.

Khunjerab Pass ( elevation ) is a high mountain pass in the Karakoram Mountains in a strategic position on the northern border of Pakistan's Gilgit – Baltistan region within the region of Kashmir and on the southwest border of the Xinjiang region of China.