Ormondville Rail Preservation Group Inc.

Recommended Links

Chinnor & Princes Risborough Railway - The Icknield Line (The website of an English rural branch line & the preserved Chinnor Railway Station)
Merchant Navy Locomotive Preservation Society (The website of a group restoring a Merchant Navy Class steam locomotive in England.)
Railroadinfo.com (Over 2,500 railway & model railway websites)
iRail: Web Directory (A British directory of railway websites)
The Orrville Railroad Heritage Society (near Akron, Ohio, USA. This one is added entirely due to its name)

Bay Express modelled in Lego (Also a couple of photos of the real one)
A German tourist's trip on the Bay Express on 5 December 1998 (Four pages of views the train's route between Napier and Wellington, although all are taken from the bus that was filling in that day. This trip came six weeks after the Milk Train's two locos hit a slip and went over the side into the Manawatu Gorge [on 21/10/1998] and sometimes when work was underway to retrieve the bottom loco - which took weeks - other trains couldn't use the route. The tourist, Steffen, captured the train wreck too. Its the photo with the time shown as "16:47". The text is in German.)

To fix URLs....

Palmerston North Electric Power Station Inc. (The city's old power station, complete with its operational diesel engines. Shares 'editor' with this website)
Whakarongo, New Zealand (Includes information on the former Whakarongo Station on the Hawkes Bay Line. Shares 'editor' with this website)
Kelvin Grove, New Zealand (A suburb on the outskirts of Palmerston North, which the Hawkes Bay line skirts around. Shares 'editor' with this website)
ORPG's 'Bed & Breakfast' webpage on the Tourism New Zealand website
ORPG's 'Historical Landmarks' webpage on the Tourism New Zealand website
ORPG's webpage on the New Zealand Museums website

Hawkes Bay/Tararua

Norsewood/Ormondville

Settlers Arms Tavern Business for Sale
Ormondville Fire Station
Norsewood Volunteer Fire Brigade (includes historical references to Ormondville Volunteer Fire Brigade)
Norsewood Promotions Inc. (Norsewood & district info.)
Pat Lawton's Home Page (Contains photos and info on Norsewood)
Norsewood Pioneer Cottage Museum
www.feijoa.co.nz (Trollberry Wine & Olaf the Troll)
Kopua Southern Star Abbey (Catholic monastery and retreat)

Dannevirke & others

Dannevirke Online - Dannevirke New Zealand's e-portal to the world
Dannevirke Scandinavian Club (Contains relevant immigration history and activities material. Shares 'editor' with this website)
Manawatu Scandinavian Club (Contains relevant immigration history. Shares 'editor' with this website)
Dannevirke Volunteer Fire Brigade Inc.
Dannevirke Heritage Project (a project associated with Dannevirke's Gallery of History)
Brent Frampton, Master Builder, Dannevirke (The builder who did the station's major restoration work)

Frederick Joseph Kühtze 1833-1901 (Dictionary of NZ Biography essay - Ormondville brewery owner 1885-1889)
John Davies Ormond 1831?-1917 (Dictionary of NZ Biography essay - The runholder, politician and provincial superintendent after whom Ormondville is named)
Rev. A.S. Webb family papers info (Ormondville 1884 onwards)

NZ Genealogy search engine
www.multimap.com (the map accessed from our homepage)
www.namezero.com (which hosts our domain name - initially for free, till we decided to pay for it.)

Last updated 6 January 2011