Steam Incorporated

Steam Incorporated, often abbreviated to Steam Inc., is a railway heritage and protection society based at the Paekakariki Railway Station, Paekakariki on the southern give up of the Kapiti Coast, approximately 50 minutes north of Wellington on the west coast of New Zealand's North Island. Unlike a few societies who function on preserved sections of closed department traces Steam Incorporated very own a depot beside one of the usa's most essential railway strains, the North Island Main Trunk Railway, and restores history locomotives and rolling stock for use on excursions on the regular country wide rail network.

Paekakariki's near association with the railway started out in 1886 when the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company's line from Wellington to Longburn opened. Paekakariki Railway Station changed into a big station no matter the settlement's small size, as it was ideally positioned as a locomotive changeover factor - effective engines were required to address the tough grades between Wellington and Paekakariki, whilst lighter and extra nimble ones had been higher proper to the mild grades and immediately music through the Kapiti Coast and Horowhenua to Manawatu.