Midland Rail Heritage Trust

01/02/2025

An interesting photo showing the old Locomotive shed at the eastern end of the Springfield Loco Depot.
This shed has since been demolished, but the pits from the shed and the ash pits which extended out ahead of the doors remain on site and have been uncovered with the intention of being incorporated into a future building.

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08/12/2023

Reminder the Annual General Meeting is on at 2:30pm tomorrow the 9th of December in the Tawera Memorial Hall in Springfield.

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02/12/2023

The trust's Annual General Meeting will be held next Saturday the 9th of December at 2:30pm at the Tawera Memorial Hall in Springfield.
Everyone is welcome to attend.

21/06/2023

Sad to see the passing of a Pleasant Point stalwart Bill Nobles.

In a fitting tribute, a long-time Pleasant Point Museum and Railway volunteer has been farewelled with a final train ride before his ashes were scattered on the line he worked hard to preserve.

27/04/2023

It is with a sad heart we have been advised the passing of Mike Anderson at the young age of 52 after a short illness. Mike was a founding member of the Diesel Traction Group served on the FRONZ exec and recently was Chairman of the Heritage Technical Committee. Our deepest sympathy goes out to his family and his Diesel Traction Group Family.

01/10/2022

Notice of Annual General Meeting
The Annual General Meeting of the Midland Rail Heritage Trust will be held in the Springfield Hall at 2 p.m. on Saturday 15th October 2022.

06/06/2022

Working bee on at Springfield this Saturday the 11th.
All are welcome even if you can't physically assist.

05/06/2022

Congratulations to all the winners of awards at the FRONZ conference in Invercargill.
It is great to see organisations have continued to make impressive progress on projects through this pandemic era.

12/05/2022

The trust will be holding a working bee at Springfield on Sunday the 22th from 10am.
Entrance is from Pocock Road ONLY. Do not cross the rail corridor to gain entry.

06/05/2022

On Sunday the 1st we held a working bee on site at Springfield. From a small turn out we were able to achieve quite a bit.
The vegetation control program continued with spraying of the tracks of the triangle in preparation for ballasting.
At the other end of the site we began cleaning and repainting the ballast wagons. One side of the Yc was sanded and prepared, then painted in "Delicious Red" rust kill paint. These wagons will be hard to miss when completed.

Finally some visual progress for you all.

18/03/2022

The trust will be holding a working bee at Springfield on Sunday the 20th from 10am.

Entrance is from Pocock Road ONLY. Do not cross the rail corridor to gain entry.

Going forward there will be a working bee every 3rd Sunday of the month.

19/08/2021

It is with Sadness the Trustees note the passing of our former project engineer Allan Campbell.
His knowledge, experience and enthusiasm were the driving force of this trust's endeavours for many years. Know to the rail fraternity as 'Boots' he educated many many people over his lifetime through his involvement with numerous rail preservation projects all over the country.
Our sincerest condolences to his family to this time of loss.

CAMPBELL, Allan Keith: On August 15, 2021, passed away peacefully in his sleep in the small hours of the morning, after battling cancer at Bainswood on