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 .:

* Weka Pass Railway's page on D 221

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.

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.

In the late 1920s, work began on the Thakhek – Tan Ap railway, that would have run between Thakhek, Khammuan Province and Tan Ap Railway Station, Quang Binh Province, Vietnam through the Mu Gia Pass.

In 2007, the Laotian Ministry of Transportation entered into discussion with Vietnam to discuss the possibility of opening a new railway line from Thakhek in Laos through the Mu Gia Pass to Tan Ap Railway Station in Vietnam's Quang Binh Province, on the North – South Railway.

* Sherman, T. Gary, Conquest and Catastrophe: The Triumph and tragedy of the Great Northern Railway Through Stevens Pass, AuthorHouse, 2004, ISBN 1-4184-9575-1

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The proposed railway into Laos would run between Vung Ang, a port in Ha Tinh Province, to connect with the North – South Railway at Tan Ap Railway Station in Quang Binh Province, then crossing through the Mu Gia Pass towards Thakhek.

The San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway reached Floresville in 1886.

* 1887 The San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway is built through Kerrville.

* 1887 San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway begins Boerne to San Antonio route.

* 1914 Fredericksburg and Northern Railway connects Fredericksburg with the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway track just east of Comfort.

* 1885 The San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway runs through the county.

The Waco Division of the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway in 1886-1925 had multiple stops in Falls County.

The San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway, was the second line in the county.

* 1889 The San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway connects Lockhart and Luling to Shiner.

The San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway was built across the ranch in 1881.

With the extension of the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway south from Alice to his ranch in 1904, Lasater founded the town of Falfurrias and subdivided a sizable portion of his ranch land for sale to other farmers.

When the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway was built through the area in 1890, Lott was founded ; it was named in honor of Uriah Lott, president of the railroad.

The north-south line of the Waco branch of the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway opened in the mid-1880s, leading to new settlements of Muldoon and Moulton.

On January 3, 1913, the San Antonio, Fredericksburg and Northern Railway was chartered to connect Fredericksburg with the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway near Waring.

Around 1880 the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway attempted to build a line through Collins, which then had about 2, 000 inhabitants.

That figure had risen to approximately 1, 000 by 1914, the same year that the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway built a stop at Premont.

Two earlier communities, Marcelina and Home Valley, had been located in the vicinity in the 1850s and 1860s, but people were not induced to settle the area until 1886, when the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway built a switch and depot called Brackenridge, named after railroad benefactor George W. Brackenridge.