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26/08/2025

Fancy a test drive of The Linesider NZ railway magazine before you subscribe?

We are now available in many more stores across the nation, including many Whitcoulls shops.

If your local magazine purveyor doesn't stock it, tell them they can now order it through ARE Direct (formerly Gordon and Gotch).

Paper Plus Kerikeri
Paper Plus Whangarei
Kensington Postshop, Whangarei
Corner Cardz 'N' Magz Whangarei
MeG Star, Henderson
Poppies Howick
Paper Plus Highland Park
Whitcoulls St Lukes
Whitcoulls New Lynn
Whitcoulls Botany
Whitcoulls Albany
Pt Chevalier Lotto Plus
Victoria Street Lotto & News Agency
Greenbay Bookshop
Constellation Hobbies, Unsworth Heights
Schofield Stationers, Papatoetoe
Papakura Paper Power
Onehunga Office Supplies
Glenbrook Vintage Railway
Pennys Bookstore, Hamilton
Whitcoulls Hamilton Central
Paper Power Thames
Carsons Bookshop, Thames
Cherrywood Lotto & Bookshop, Tauranga
Whitcoulls Tauranga
Paper Plus Mt Maunganui
Paper Plus Papamoa
Whakatane Paper Plus
Ngongotaha Books Lotto & Postshop
McLeods Books, Rotorua
Naylors Bookshop, Turangi
Take Note Dinsdale
Matamata Paper Plus
Paper Plus Cambridge
Westown Postshop New Plymouth
Inglewood Book Centre Ltd
Aramoho Mags & Lotto
Lindsays Post Books & Lotto, Whanganui
Whitcoulls Whanganui
Paper Plus Feilding
Turners Gfts & Luggage, Feilding
Paper Plus Palmerston North
Whitcoulls Palmerston North
Muirs Bookshop & Café, Gisborne
Onekawa Books and Gifts Napier
Paper Plus Hastings
Paper Plus Hawera
Levin Lucky Lotto
Paper Plus Levin
Paper Plus Coastlands
Take Note Carterton
Paper Plus Masterton
Paper Plus North City
Paper Plus Petone
Whitcoulls Lower Hutt
Whitcoulls Johnsonville
City Cards & Mags Lambton Quay

Page & Blackmore Nelson
Paper Plus Blenheim
Paper Plus Kaikoura
Cheviot Hardware
Dennis Bookshop Westport
Paper Plus Greymouth
Piccadilly Bookshop Christchurch
Leslies Bookshop Lyttelton
Acorn Models Christchurch
Ironhorse Hobbies Christchurch
The National Railway Museum of NZ (Ferrymead)
Whitcoulls Shirley
Whitcoulls Hornby
Scorpio Books
Paper Plus Ferrymead
Paper Plus New Brighton
Paper Plus Ashburton
The Page and Post Bookseller Geraldine
The Notebook Timaru
Whitcoulls Timaru
Pleasant Point Museum and Railway
Paper Plus Oamaru
Paper Plus Dunedin
Whitcoulls Dunedin Central
Paper Plus Mosgiel
Paper Plus Gore
Windsor Stationary and Lotto Invercergill
Whitcoulls Invercargill

25/08/2025

If you are at a loose end around Christchurch tomorrow night, Wednesday 27 August, I'll be presenting tales and photos from chasing steam locos in China between 2004-17.

Wednesday 27 August, 7pm, Sydenham Community Centre, 25 Hutcheson Street, (off Colombo Street near the Brougham St corner). If you've not been to one of these before, bring a fiver or some coins for the supper and hall hire.

20/08/2025

Issue 21 of The Linesider (Spring/Sept 2025) is running a little ahead of schedule and will start arriving into subscriber mailboxes over the next few days. It should be popping up at retailers next week.

In this issue, Dave Simpson brings us pictures and stories of Waikato coal and the Mission Bush steelworks, and we look at the C class hoppers were built to serve that mill. There is photographic coverage of recent heritage action, and updates on two new KiwiRail loco classes - the DM diesel-electric, and the upcoming DSH battery hybrid.

It's never too late to subscribe! https://linesider.railsoc.org.nz/

24/06/2025

Three mint issue of The Linesider now on Trademe.

https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/marketplace/books/non-fiction/transport/rail/listing/5387048204

https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/marketplace/books/non-fiction/transport/rail/listing/5387047618

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21/06/2025

Missing older issues of The Linesider? To complete your collection at a very reasonable price, send an email straight away to [email protected] with the ones you'd like! The more you need, the bigger the discount!

After 1 July, very limited numbers of back issues will remain, available from the NZR&LS.

During the cleanout, I've unearthed two or three copies of the elusive Issue 1 that I'll put on Trademe in the next few days.

30/05/2025

Issue 20 of The Linesider is starting to arrive in subscriber mailboxes and will be appearing on stockists' shelves over the next week.

In addition to the usual news, pictures, and comments, Dave Simpson shares images and a history of the Kinleith Branch, Daniel Garland chases an unusual six-loco train up the Wairarapa, D. L. A. Turner introduces us to Ivy Gorinski on Dunedin’s suburban trains, and Glen Anthony describes how Lyttelton’s balloon loop was inflated in 1988.

After getting all those mailed out, The Linesider is now resting for a few days after also having his body and wallet battered and bruised in the wild lands across the ocean in recent weeks.

31/03/2025

Two new Ferries, and they will have rail decks. Well that's unexpected! Well done to everyone who fought for this.

Winston Peters has unveiled details about the Interislander replacement plan, including a new timeline.

11/03/2025

Issue 19 of The Linesider is out! If you are a subscriber, I hope you have received yours by now. This March 2025 issue includes the Southerner detouring to Hokitika in 1991, the high-speed four-wheeled wagons from the 70s and 80s, wagon assembly at Hillside from a few months ago, the end of Wellington's A Box in December, rail heritage pictures from a few years ago until recently, and a cover picture taken the day before the magazine went to the printers.

24/02/2025

The Linesider steams on!

Many of you have asked about the future of the magazine and expressed a hope that it might continue beyond issue 20. It will! From issue 21, The Linesider will be published by the New Zealand Railway and Locomotive Society. The content and quality of The Linesider will not change at all - I will continue to create it, working with the same printers to turn out the same quality product, with the same passion. As publisher and distributor, the NZR&LS has relationships with more stockists, its large membership base, and NZ magazine distributors, which will extend the magazine's reach. NZRLS will also manage the subscription list, and no, it doesn't matter whether you are an NZR&LS member or not! Things will continue as normal, except there will be a different bank account for renewals after issue 20. Both Bill Prebble, NZR&LS Director and Chair of Publications, and I, believe this is an excellent move for the NZ rail enthusiast community: The Linesider will continue on as a key part of the NZR&LS publications portfolio, and will grow with the support of an organisation with more than 80 years of history behind it.

Here's to many more years of The Linesider! Issue 19 should be leaving the printers at the end of the week and start arriving in mailboxes and shops in the first week of March. Thanks for your support!