RM 34 Tainui Arrives At Pahiatua 2019

RM34 Tainui has arrived from Silverstream aboard a heavy road transporter and is carefully lifted onto its new home rails at Pahiatua in New Zealand. RM34 has been gifted by the Silver Stream Railway Museum in an arrangement that will see three vintage goods wagons sent in return by the Pahiatua Railcar Society. RM34 was one of a class of six Standard Railcars built in 1938/39 at Hutt Workshops. They operated in the North Island on various routes between Wellington, Gisborne and New Plymouth until 1972. They were each named after the great Waka of Maori migration. After restoration, RM34 Tainui will be able to run in multiple with stablemate RM31 Tokomaru. RM 30 Aotea resides on the Silver Stream Railway in Wellington. RM 32 Pangatoru is located at the Glenbrook Vintage Railway south of Auckland.