The MOTAT Society Special General Meeting originally held on 16 November 2022 was adjourned (along with the Annual General Meeting that...

What an amazing day we had today with the MOTAT Society at the Glenbrook Vintage Railway! Our behind-the-scenes tour of the rail...

The MOTAT Society recently had the privilege of joining with the Tramways Social Club for their Annual BBQ which included a visit to the...

Saturday 25 March “Te Toi Uku is a museum located in Ambrico Place, New Lynn, Auckland on the old Gardner Brothers & Parker brickworks...

The hardest part of any trip to MOTAT is finding somewhere to park the car, then getting to the entrance. This expectation has been...

Dear Members of the MOTAT Society. Your committee and administrator wish you and your families Merry Christmas and every success for...

This year the MOTAT Society is proud to present the Lush Award to Ron Wilson for his ingenuity and expertise in the detailed recreation...

The Brookby countryside was inspirational - rolling hills, manicured fields, and classic wood railing fences culminating in an imposing...

Making replica factory plates for MOTAT’s locomotives These days when a new machine comes out of a workshop it will generally have the...

Sir Keith Park Memorial Airfield, Thames The 11th of September saw Thames’ Sir Keith Park Memorial Airfield’s 3rd commemoration of Sir...

The following is a brief report prepared last year at about the time it seemed as if the Wiri building was, at last, coming to adorn the...

Covid19 Lockdowns and Protection Level restrictions prevented the MOTAT Society from holding its 2021 Annual General Meeting until 30...

Not generally well known is MOTAT’s considerable and growing oral history repository. Over the last twenty years the Walsh Memorial...

Not generally well known is MOTAT’s considerable and growing oral history repository. Over the last twenty years the Walsh Memorial...

To celebrate the wonderful world of engineers, in this issue of the Squeaky Wheel we've chosen to highlight some of our favourite...

SPOTLIGHT ON MOTAT’S ORAL HISTORIES Not generally well known is MOTAT’s considerable and growing oral history repository. Over the last...

SPOTLIGHT ON MOTAT’S ORAL HISTORIES Not generally well known is MOTAT’s considerable and growing oral history repository. Over the last...

Not far from MOTAT, some things haven’t changed much in Kingsland over 100 years. Here we have a set of photographs of A.W. Page’s Store...

The MOTAT Society offers a very belated congratulations to all the recipients of the MOTAT Volunteer Awards in June 2021. Ross...

An early MOTAT Society project was the joint venture with the NZ Fighter Pilots Assn to provide the memorial to eight RNZAF pilots lost...