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Rail Safety Week 2023
- Silver Stream Railway
- This week is Rail Safety Week in New Zealand and Australia, so we thought this would be a good opportunity to remind the community that we are part of about…
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Open Sunday 18th September
- Silver Stream Railway
- This coming Sunday the 18th of September we will be open with our Standard Railcar R.M.30 in service, its first outing in well over a year. A chance to come…
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Open Queens Birthday Weekend
- Silver Stream Railway
- Our long awaited return to operation is this coming Queens Birthday Weekend Sunday and Monday, with steam train rides behind our 101 year old Barclay steam locomotive, which will be…
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Grant Received for Historic Cottage Roof
- Silver Stream Railway
- A big thank you to the Rotary Club of Heretaunga Charitable Trust Inc for funds to reroof historic Waiora Cottage. The reroofing work was undertaken in December 2018 and replaces…
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Grant received for track maintenance
- Silver Stream Railway
- Our thanks to the Wellington Community Trust for their contribution to our annual track maintenance costs. Every year we replace sleepers and upgrade the track formation to keep our trains…
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Grant received for De505
- Silver Stream Railway
- Thanks to the Hutt Mana Charitable Trust for a grant which has allowed us to purchase 400lt of engine lubricating oil for De505. This will allow the oil to be…
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Grant received for locomotive overhaul work.
- Silver Stream Railway
- We just received word of a very generous grant from The Lion Foundation towards the purchase of materials towards the return to service of PWD512 our C class saddle tank…
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Grant Received for Sleepers
- Silver Stream Railway
- We have just received word that the Trillian Trust has granted us sufficient money to purchase turnout sleepers to enable the first turnout to be assembled for the display shed…
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Hutt Mana Charitable Trust Grant Received
- Silver Stream Railway
- A big thanks to the Hutt Mana Charitable Trust for a grant toward the purchase of 84 tons of ballast for use in maintenance work and also the track work associated…
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Heritage Railway Vehicle Display Shed Project
- Silver Stream Railway
- In January 2015 SSR embarked on a major project to construct a 650m2 display shed to enable some of our rolling stock to be displayed in a purpose built facility.…
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