Today's photo from a railways postcard of the time features a Blue Streak railcar running through Taranaki sometime in the early 1970s with Mt Egmont/Taranaki as a backdrop.
Three of these 88-Seater Fiat powered railcars were renovated for Auckland - Wellington services in the late 1960s, but on Thursday 18 December 1972 the Blue Streaks were replaced by the new Silver Fern railcars and transferred to the Wellington to New Plymouth service, replacing the six Standard railcars. They continued on this service until the final run on Friday 30 July 1977 when the service was replaced with buses.
I had an NZR 30cm ruler with this and other photos on it..
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