Talk:New Zealand British Rail Mark 2 carriage

Regauging
How was the re gauging accomplished? By bogie exchange or by mounting the wheels to suit on long axles that fit onto the original bogies and which axles have been machined to suit? Peter Horn User talk 18:50, 28 July 2014 (UTC)


 * Bogie exchange; the original 1435 mm bogies were exchanged with either new or second-hand 1067 mm bogies. Lcmortensen (mailbox) 02:27, 29 July 2014 (UTC)


 * Hi Peter


 * The regauging was indeed done by a bogie exchange. The bogies that they were imported with (usually BR4 IIRC) were dispensed with, and replaced by New Zealand types x28020, or S-Ride (a Chinese Design). As part of this process, the actual total vehicle height was slightly reduced to conform to New Zealand's more restrictive Loading Gauge.Kaiwhara (talk) 05:58, 29 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Hello Kaiwhara and Lc, Thanks for your explanations. The Brits might as well have kept the bogies and send the coaches sin bogies. Not a bright move at all. Peter Horn User talk 03:48, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

Feilding Carriages
Can anyone shed some light on the coaches that are stored at the Feilding Steam Rail site? I have a feeling these could be the cars that were stored at Hutt? Doyletr (talk) 21:35, 7 February 2016 (UTC)

These carriages are stored in Feilding for Mainline Steam due space constraints at Plimmerton and Hutt Workshops. Refer Mainline Steam Trust directly or to the Trusts or Mainline Steam Plimmerton's Facebook pages for regular updates.

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KiwiRail use
Reading the cited Railfan article, the section on KiwiRail's supposed use of the carriages looks more like speculation rather than definite proof of anything. Personally I wouldn't include this section and have removed it before, but it's reappeared. Bringing it here to avoid WP:3RR. pcuser42 (talk) 06:37, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
 * - we have confirmation of this now? --LJ Holden 08:20, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes definitely confirmed now, I believe it's appeared in Railfan since but also has a Maori TV article for a non-railfan perspective. https://www.maoritelevision.com/news/regional/old-nz-trains-brought-back-life pcuser42 (talk) 08:55, 25 February 2019 (UTC)