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Uncommon Carrier by K R Cassells hard cover w/dust jacket
Uncommon Carrier by K R Cassells hard cover w/dust jacket
Uncommon Carrier The History of the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company, 1882-1908
K R Cassells
Hard Cover w/dust jacket
208 Pages
Copyright 1993
1st Printing 1994
Contents
Chapter 1Wellington's Needs11
Chapter 2Weighing the Choices 14
Chapter 3Sword of Damocles16
Chapter 4Plimmer's Plea and the Company Float18
Chapter 5Reaching Agreement23
Chapter 6Construction Resumes25
Chapter 7Making Progress28
Chapter 8First Locomotives and Rolling Stock34
Chapter 9The First Train Services39
Chapter 10The Longburn Connection 42
Chapter 11Interchange Agreements45
Chapter 12In Business at Last46
Chapter 13First Full Year49
Chapter 14Growth in Adversity57
Chapter 15Paying Its Way61
Chapter 16First Dividend64
Chapter 17"The Dark Days Have Passed"67
Chapter 18Pre-eminence Achieved 73
Chapter 19But Now Look at Us81
Chapter 20Prosperity85
Chapter 21A Fairly Satisfactory Year87
Chapter 22Downturn89
Chapter 23Tightening the Belt96
Chapter 24Happy New Year97
Chapter 25Prosperity Returns99
Chapter 26Discord 103
Chapter 27A Curse to the Country 105
Chapter 28Steady Progress 112
Chapter 29Flying Time 119
With these thoughts, Ken Cassells opens his preface to "Uncommon Carrier", a complete history of the Company. The work is based on the extensive and thorough research undertaken by the late Noel Palmer, a foundation member of the New Zealand Railway and Locomotive Society.
Ken, also a foundation member of the Society, first became acquainted with Noel and his interests in 1942, and wrote in his preface: "My first objective was to do what Noel most fervently wished: to make available in as much detail as possible the information railway enthusiasts appreciate most. This is a book primarily for railfans, for which I make no apology ...."
The general reader and local historians will also find this an absorbing book. As Noel Palmer once wrote: "It was quite a railroad, the Manawatu line. The first general manager was a Lambton Quay grocer, and the directorate included several merchants, a lawyer or two, a brewer, at least two retail drapers, and a pioneer settler whom Seddon once described as the "Father of Wellington". It was the Wellington Chamber of Commerce that was instrumental in promoting the setting up of a company to construct the railway. The company ran the trains, very successfully, from 1886 to 1908, when the Government purchased the line to form .art of the North Island Main Trunk.
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