In 1986, the East Town Railway Workshops in Whanganui were closed, as part of a rationalisation programme originally proposed by Booz Allen Hamilton in 1984. That report said the Railways Corporation only needed three out of the five workshops open at the time, and as the only workshops in a regional centre, East Town was doomed. Below are articles about some of the people affected by the closure of the workshops. At the time, it was seen as a devastating blow to the town.
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