[4] To raise funds, the NRM runs its own bookshop, mainly selling books and magazines relating to railway topics in New Zealand.
[5] The museum owns one electric locomotive from Wellington, one electric multiple unit also from Wellington and three wagons with a leased diesel shunter.
The museum will display other NZR and bush locomotives from the Canterbury Railway Society.
The museum will also display other rolling stock including a turntable from Auckland and any other suitable railway material.
[2] An NZR C class (1873), rescued from a dump in Buller Gorge,[6] was moved from the Westport Railway Preservation Society to NZRM in 2024.