Hi Kids, this section is just for you.

We hope to have our junior members write stories you can read about what they do around the railway, as well as provide you some information on trains, colouring items and links to fun pages.

Does the shrill call of a steam whistle, and the sight, sound, and smell of a steam locomotive in action thrill you? Do you have an interest in railways and in the preservation of this important part of New Zealand's heritage?

If so, then you are among friends!

As told by Bryan Bishop - SSR General Manager

It was never my intention to become General Manager of Silver Stream Railway when I joined up in the early 1970's. Of course things were very different then with the Society based at Seaview adjacent to the harbour and the ultimate goal of the Silverstream property being, in reality, a far off dream for the young organisation. Money was tight (non existent), equipment stored in the open in a salt atmosphere on the temporary sidings laid to accommodate a growing collection of redundant rolling stock and other railway hardware representing a railway era then fast disappearing