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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.
* 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.
* 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.
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A Buff Weka at Willowbank Wildlife Reserve, Christchurch, New Zealand
An assortment of birds found in the North Island are present at the National Park except for the Weka.
In association football, Kapiti is represented by Kapiti Coast United, who play at Weka Park in Raumati Beach.
The local football club, Kapiti Coast United, plays at Weka Park in Raumati Beach.
* Weka ( machine learning ), a suite of machine learning software written at the University of Waikato
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The Weka or woodhen ( Gallirallus australis ) is a flightless bird species of the rail family.
The common name Weka is a Māori word.
The Buff Weka ( Gallirallus australis hectori ) formerly inhabited the eastern districts of the South Island but is now confined to Chatham Island and Pitt Island to which it was introduced in the early 1900s, and where they are widely hunted and eaten, being considered ' introduced '.
The North Island Weka ( Gallirallus australis greyi ) is represented by original populations in Northland and Poverty Bay, and by liberations elsewhere from that stock.
The Western Weka ( Gallirallus australis australis ) is found mainly in the northern and western regions of the South Island from Nelson to Fiordland.
The Stewart Island Weka ( Gallirallus australis scotti ) is smaller than the other subspecies and, like the Western Weka, has two colour phases ; a chestnut form-similar to the chestnut-phase Western Weka-and a black phase which is not as dark as the black Western Weka.
Where the Weka is relatively common, their furtive curiosity leads them to search around houses and camps for food scraps, or anything unfamiliar and transportable.
The breeding season varies, but when food is plentiful, Weka can raise up to four broods throughout the whole year.
Contact call is easely confused with that of the Weka ( Gallirallus australis ), but is generally more resonant and deeper.
The Calayan Rail's genus, Gallirallus, includes many species of Southwest Pacific islands, of which the most familiar in the English-speaking world is the Weka of New Zealand.
After defeating a dragon like creature and knocking Weka Dart out of a tree, she has a frightening encounter with the shade of Brona, the most legendary evil from the Four Lands, and Grianne is captured by a party of Demons.
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RapidMiner, LIONsolver, KNIME, Weka, ODM, Shogun toolbox, Orange, Apache Mahout, scikit-learn, mlpy, MCMLL, and OpenCV are software suites containing a variety of machine learning algorithms.
Weka are sturdy brown birds, about the size of a chicken.
Weka usually lay eggs between August and January ; both sexes help to incubate.
Weka have sturdy legs and reduced wings.
Johann Georg Wagler's suggestion of the Ocydromus genus in 1830 to describe each Weka as a species was generally adopted.
However, Weka were later decided as a single species in the Gallirallus genus with four subspecies.
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 occupy areas such as forests, sub-alpine grassland, sand dunes, rocky shores and modified semi-urban environments.
Weka are important in the bush as seed dispersers, distributing seeds too large for smaller berry-eating birds.
On average, female Weka lay three creamy or pinkish eggs blotched with brown and mauve.
Weka are classed as a vulnerable species.
The Department of Conservation's Weka recovery plan, approved in 1999, aims to improve the conservation status of threatened Weka, clarify the status of data deficient Weka, maintain the non-threatened status of other Weka, and eventually restore all Weka to their traditional ranges as a significant component of the ecosystems.
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