NZR WG class

"[2] The locomotives were used on suburban trains in Wellington and Auckland.

[2] WG 480 was built by New Zealand Railways at Hillside (maker's no 104/10), and entered service in October 1910.

It was altered for use on the Rimutaka Incline to assist the "Fell" locomotives cope with the military traffic to and from the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces training camp at Featherston.

The cowcatchers were altered to clear the high Fell centre rail, and it had an acetylene headlamp arranged to follow the alignment of the track on curves.

The locomotive was written off in June 1969, and preserved at the Glenbrook Vintage Railway.

1917 photograph of W G 480, Godber Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library .