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Armistice Day train

Armistice Day train

'The end of German sausage': Gore railway workers celebrated Armistice Day in November 1918 by decorating the little locomotive F 78 and wagon with cabbage trees and other greenery, imitation sausages and a blunt chalked message, 'To Hell with the Kaiser'.

New Zealand Railway and Locomotive Society
Reference: R.J. Meyer Collection, A327-1/2

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