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Wellington and Manawatu Railway Trust
🇳🇿 New Zealand ·built by Baldwin Locomotive Works· from 1891· charitable Trust in Wellington, New Zealand
what is it?
The Wellington and Manawatu Railway Trust is a charitable trust based in Wellington, New Zealand, and is actively restoring former Wellington and Manawatu Railway locomotive No.9 (later N 453 under government ownership), to full working order.
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 135 years ago, in 1891.
- 326 kW is about 4 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 8 African elephants (~6 t each).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1891
- retired
- 1926
- status
- retired
- number built
- —
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇳🇿 New Zealand
- builders
- Baldwin Locomotive Works
- operators
- Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company, New Zealand Railways Department
- top speed
- 104 km/h
- power
- 326 kW
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2-6-2
- weight
- 50.8 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7981548, Wikipedia: Wellington and Manawatu Railway Trust (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.