The New Zealand Railway and Locomotive Society Inc is a society of railway enthusiasts, based in Wellington.
[1] The society archives are in the Thomas McGavin Building on Ava railway station's former goods yard in the Hutt Valley.
[3] The society publishes a magazine, the New Zealand Railway Observer (ISSN 0028-8624), that was first published by the New Zealand Railway Correspondence Society on a Gestetner in 1944,[4] and a newsletter Turntable.
The society publishes books on railway subjects.
The society owns steam locomotives AB 608 and X 442.