‘FLYER’ MADE READY
(N.Z. Press Association)
HAMILTON, Nov. 26.
Mr Russell Glendinning, has been appointed senior engine driver at Lumsden, in central Southland. His is a position with a difference.
He will drive the Kingston Flyer, the N.Z.R.’s summer “vintage train” which is to steam along the 38-mile Lumsden-Kingston line from December 21. .
Mr Glendinning has been busy preparing Ab77B, the locomotive which will be used alternatively with Ab--795 on the run. The “Flyer,” which is to make two daily return trips in the tourist season, will be the only steam-hauled train on the railways system.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32775, 27 November 1971, Page 2
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