page_title: Feilding and District Steam Rail Society
hierarchical_section_title: Feilding and District Steam Rail Society
caption_attribution_description: English: WAB 794 on excursion between Bunnythorpe and Palmerston North - 31 August 2003
context_page_description: The Feilding and District Steam Rail Society, also known as Feilding Steam Rail, is a railway preservation society located in Feilding in the Manawatu region of New Zealand. The society has restored or is restoring a number of locomotives and wagons once used on New Zealand's national rail network, with its star attraction being a Wᴬᴮ class tank locomotive, Wᴬᴮ 794. The society also has X 442 and F 163. Although nine members of the F class are preserved, this is the only one in mainline running condition. The society also possesses two small diesel shunters, DSA 227 and TR 13, along with a large mainline diesel locomotive, DA 1401, and a varied collection of rolling stock including both passenger and freight wagons.
  The society's depot includes the turntable from Palmerston, a town in north Otago in the South Island, as well as the Taonui station building that used to be located near Feilding on the North Island Main Trunk railway at the junction with the short-lived Taonui Branch.
  Feilding Steam Rail operates excursions from its Feilding base to locations such as Wanganui, Ohakune, Dannevirke, and Pahiatua.
context_section_description: The Feilding and District Steam Rail Society, also known as Feilding Steam Rail, is a railway preservation society located in Feilding in the Manawatu region of New Zealand.  The society has restored or is restoring a number of locomotives and wagons once used on New Zealand's national rail network, with its star attraction being a Wᴬᴮ class tank locomotive, Wᴬᴮ 794.  The society also has X 442 and F 163.  Although nine members of the F class are preserved, this is the only one in mainline running condition.  The society also possesses two small diesel shunters, DSA 227 and TR 13, along with a large mainline diesel locomotive, DA 1401, and a varied collection of rolling stock including both passenger and freight wagons.
  The society's depot includes the turntable from Palmerston, a town in north Otago in the South Island, as well as the Taonui station building that used to be located near Feilding on the North Island Main Trunk railway at the junction with the short-lived Taonui Branch.
  Feilding Steam Rail operates excursions from its Feilding base to locations such as Wanganui, Ohakune, Dannevirke, and Pahiatua.  When severe rainfall and floods caused destructive slips in the Manawatu Gorge in 2004, the society operated sightseeing trains through the Gorge.
caption: Feilding Steam Rail's WAB class locomotive on excursion.
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