List of chief executives of New Zealand Railways explained

List of chief executives of New Zealand Railways

New Zealand Government Railways

Titled General Manager unless otherwise specified.

No.	Name	Term of office
1	J. P. Maxwell	1880	1889
2	James McKerrow	1889	1894
3	Thomas Ronayne	1895	1913
4	E. H. Hiley	1913	1919
5	Richard McVilly	1919	1924
6	F. J. Jones	1924	1928
7	H. H. Sterling	1928	1931
8	Col. J. J. Essen	1931
(7)	H. H. Sterling	1931	1936
9	P. G. Rousssel	1931	1932
10	G. H. Mackley	1933	1940
11	Eugene Casey	1940	1944
12	J. Sawyers	1944	1948
13	Frank Aickin	1948	1951
13	Horace Lusty	1951	1955
14	Wilfred Evelyn Hodges	1955	1957
15	Alan Gandell	1955	1966
16	Ivan Thomas	1966	1972
17	T M Small	1972	1976
19	Trevor Hayward	1976	1981

Table footnotes:

New Zealand Railways Corporation

The New Zealand Railways Corporation replaced the New Zealand Railways Department in 1982.

Titled "Chief Executive"^[1]

No.	Name	Term of office
1	Trevor Hayward	1982	1983
2	Gordon Purdy	1983	1987
3	Kevin Hyde	1987	1990

New Zealand Rail Limited

Titled Managing Director:^[2] New Zealand Rail was renamed Tranz Rail in 1995.

References

Bibliography

Book: New Zealand Railways: The First 125 years . Leitch. David. Stott. Bob. 1988 . Heinemann Reed . Auckland . 0-7900-0000-8 . 171 .

Notes and References

Rail Express. July–August 1990. From the Executive Chairman. 2.
Rail Express. September–October 1990. From the Managing Director. 2.