You're asking a Diesel boy that?
Probably looks like she did at the end of service, I doubt there was any "backdating" done. haha!!
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Ab class locomotive (New Zealand Railways, number 608, 4-6-2). Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives. Ref: APG-0211-1/2-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. [
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Four Superheater bolts
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Smokebox of Ab class locomotive (New Zealand Railways, number 608, 4-6-2). Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives. Ref: APG-1607-1/2-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. [
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