#2563
NZR 56-foot carriage
built by New Zealand Railways Department· from 1937· passenger rolling stock in New Zealand
🚃 carriage / wagon retired
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. TGR 56er: Nankai· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The NZR 56-foot carriage is a type of 56 ft (17 m) long railway passenger carriage formerly used on almost all long-distance passenger rail transport in New Zealand. 88 carriages have been preserved.
who runs it
fun facts
- First built 89 years ago, in 1937.
- 17.1 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 77 years (1937–2014).
carriage / wagon: Unpowered passenger coaches or freight wagons, pulled by a locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1937
- in service from
- 1937
- retired
- 2014
- status
- retired
- number built
- —
- kind
- carriage / wagon
- builders
- New Zealand Railways Department
- operators
- Mainline Steam
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- length
- 17.1 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q6956169, Wikipedia: NZR 56-foot carriage (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.