tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81110321669945692702024-01-01T14:05:22.405-08:00TrainroverNews of my occasional trips to various parts of the globe and the narrow gauge railways I encounter there.John Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13039897024736280977noreply@blogger.comBlogger186125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8111032166994569270.post-2612347951128370312021-03-18T03:57:00.000-07:002021-03-18T03:57:11.643-07:00Details of 0-6-0T locomotive supplied to Gin Gin Mill, Queensland, by Arthur Koppel in August 1896. 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja-VS_YjWwAkXPaXedkk3cRsLU0srBZsUmUN_zzwJ1FEphe-auDmjKlSLGuGXt1A7zPh35GpCJchW_js9GUftxoc-LxGuxLMrxQ8p7Hx9oMeDfWivR6fjfsj0IhhUaNtZwKeoj_20eRio/s2002/GIN+GIN+SUGAR+MILL+BUNYIP+KMcD.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1387" data-original-width="2002" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja-VS_YjWwAkXPaXedkk3cRsLU0srBZsUmUN_zzwJ1FEphe-auDmjKlSLGuGXt1A7zPh35GpCJchW_js9GUftxoc-LxGuxLMrxQ8p7Hx9oMeDfWivR6fjfsj0IhhUaNtZwKeoj_20eRio/s320/GIN+GIN+SUGAR+MILL+BUNYIP+KMcD.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Locomotive supplied by Arthur Koppel to Gin Gin Sugar Mill in Queensland in August 1896.<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXdGuls7e3l7Gx0m9CHbdwDKwt9u-h-hvxTPcH1UEe-YsJPJZPXeCLpdGIL7fVnkPHl6kOxzfIRoOOi3qoiXe1pAqk7FloN4Llpw_DJ6bo0w0tltT67QGMovuAMHHOEhggI622EwpNydM/s2048/A.+Bunyip+0001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Plinthed in a small enclosure opposite Howrah station was 2ft 6in gauge Bagnall 0-6-4T AK
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Kolkata was hot, humid, busy, and a little smoggy.<br />
Acclimatisation for the early arrivals included a visit to the famous Howrah station, across the Hooghly River from the CBD, and a ride back on the ferry.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The huge Howrah station from across the Hooghly River</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We made acquaintance with some of the residents of Howrah Station, a very busy suburban terminus.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Howrah bridge, similar in length to Brisbane's Story bridge, dominates the scene</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ablutions on the western bank</td></tr>
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<span style="text-align: start;">The next day the entire party rode a chartered tram from the central tram station in the heart of Kolkata. This is the last tram system left in India.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Articulated tram at Dalhouise Square</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Goat herding at the central tram station</td></tr>
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<span style="text-align: start;">We also took a city walk. Kolkata is definitely a city of the Raj, with many fine Victorian buildings of which a good proportion are in a parlous state of repair.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The distinctive yellow Kolkata taxis in a gracious city street. The Hindustan Ambassador, based on the Morris Oxford, only went out of production in 2014.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kolkata is a busy commercial hub.</td></tr>
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Final port of call for the day was the Indian Railways East Regional Railway Museum just south of Howrah station, which was well worth a visit. There is a capacious display hall and a jolly pleasure railway, but the majority of exhibits are displayed in the open in railway sidings.<br />
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<span lang="EN-US">2ft 6in gauge Bagnall 2-6-2T BK-13 (3053 of 1953) ex Burdwan Katwa Railway<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Broad gauge 20202
(Class WAM-1) was the first alternating current passenger locomotive in
India. Manufactured by a European consortium in 1959, it is reportedly
operational and its condition suggests that it has not been long on display.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">First sighting in India of a Darjeeling B class locomotive. 798 (North British 23291 of 1898) is nicely displayed under cover with two carriages.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A metre gauge express engine, 2-8-2 3403 built by TELCO (a.k.a Tata) in 1961.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Two British tour members enjoying their ride on the 18 inch gauge 'Fairy Queen Express' train.</td></tr>
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John Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13039897024736280977noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8111032166994569270.post-73692738143112894722016-08-08T20:22:00.002-07:002016-08-09T21:18:43.148-07:00Indian Narrow Gauge Extravaganza<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mahanadi, Darjeeling Himalayan Railway 11 March 2016</td></tr>
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I was lucky enough to participate in the month-long Darjeeling Tours Narrow Gauge Extravaganza tour in March-April. Unfortunately, work commitments since them have delayed the posting of blog entries, but it is now time to begin.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bilaspur, Himachal Pradesh</td></tr>
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I would strongly recommend Darjeeling Tours <a href="http://www.darjeelingtours.co.uk/">http://www.darjeelingtours.co.uk/</a>under tour leader Fuzz Jordan to anyone contemplating a trip to India The tour was well-organised and the arrangements were flexible enough to allow for individual detours. Some famous cultural sites were included, but not at the expense of rail interest, and some of the accommodation echoed the days of the Raj in charm and comfort.<br />
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Having said that, a tour of this length in India is hard going and a certain level of physical fitness and endurance is recommended. India can seem chaotic at times, but things generally work, and the Indian people are welcoming and proud of their country.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kangra Station (2ft 6in gauge), Himachal Pradesh, 21 March 2016</td></tr>
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Because India is such an interesting country, and that includes its main line (5ft 6in gauge) trains, I will be including a fair bit of local colour amongst the narrow gauge frocus.<br />
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John Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13039897024736280977noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8111032166994569270.post-57635354459419458222016-02-21T08:21:00.000-08:002016-04-25T18:36:11.386-07:00Mackay Sugar 11 February 2016Just a quick visit to Mackay enabled me to find a few sugar industry off season maintenance tasks going on.<br />
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One task is putting all the bins from the three mills through routine greasing and checking at Pleystowe. Farleigh Mill's turn to participate in this process began today with Walkers B-B DH DULVERTON making the initial run from Pleystowe with 160 bins that had already been serviced. It would later return with a rake of bins from Farleigh. Up to 200 bins can be serviced in a day at Pleystowe, so it is quite a job to keep up the supply.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">DULVERTON eases its load across Mandurana Road</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: small;">The line from Pleystowe to Farleigh includes the steep Church Hill (1 in 25). This photo shows the gradient with the locomotive out of sight over the crest and the brake wagon yet to commence its ascent.</span></span></td></tr>
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Meanwhile, Clyde 0-6-0DH DEVEREUX was out on Marian Mill's Mia Mia line with the track welding train. Just as on main line railways, many mills are eliminating fishplate joints to help reduce maintenance costs.<br />
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On the intensively-used main line south of Racecourse Mill, two Plasser track machines were in use.</div>
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Eric Gibson's ex Farleigh Mill Avonside 0-4-0T is still stored under cover on Gibson's Road, behind Racecourse Mill.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Avonside 1909 of 1922. This type came to Queensland after two earlier ones ordered by South African sugar mills were commandeered by the British Government during World War I, ending up at Farleigh Mill after the war.</span></td></tr>
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<br />John Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13039897024736280977noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8111032166994569270.post-4357936640332770582016-02-20T19:09:00.000-08:002016-02-22T16:47:35.720-08:00New Zealand January 2016 - 7. Blenheim Riverside Railway<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
The Blenheim Riverside Railway is a superb new 2ft gauge line that has been developed over the last 30 years. It runs 5.5km from Brayshaw Heritage Park to the heart of Blenheim alongside the Taylor River. An 800m branch to the Omaka Aviation Heritage Centre and Omaka Classic Cars was recently opened in 2015.</div>
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The railway makes Blenheim unique as a 2ft gauge railway centre worldwide. There is nothing quite like this anywhere else.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">At Brayshaw Park Station, the main loco working currently is GEORGE, 4wDH A&G Price 166 of 1951, built in Thames, New Zealand for the Ohai State Coal Mine.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">B-B DH ONAHAU - 1145 DH3443 - was donated to the railway. It was built in a Picton shipyard in the 1990s for service on a now defunct private railway in the Marlborough Sounds. Too slow for passenger work, it is the preferred locomotive for maintenance trains.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Maintenance vehicles coupled to ONAHAU in the spacious shed.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">This rotary grass cutter built by the railway is reminiscent of larger versions once used on Queensland sugar cane railways.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">This is a Ruston & Hornsby 20DL 4wDM, believed to be 202969 of 1940. It had a varied history in the UK, receiving its steam outline for use at the Cotswold Wildlife Park. It came to New Zealand in 1984 and was purchased for the railway in 2011. It is currently being equipped for passenger use.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">'Donald' was built as a 0-4-0T in 1901, almost certainly by the Glasgow Railway Engineering Co Ltd. It worked at the Puponga coal mines until 1930 and was then dumped. Rescued in 1989, it has been a long-term rebuilding project. Converted to an oil-burning 0-4-2T to make it suitable for passenger use, it should return to steam during 2016.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">MURRAY is Ruston & Hornsby 170204 of 1934, converted from 2ft 6in gauge. It worked at Milburn Lime & Cement and is currently the backup passenger train loco.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">RM1 is a B-B DH railcar built by the railway in 1992 and available to handle light services or operate shuttles on the Omaka branch on busy days.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The railway runs alongside the Taylor River through parkland. This is just past Eckford's Engineering Corner as the line approaches central Blenheim</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The train passes below High Street at the Alfred Bridge and joins the River Board Walk at Leeds Quay</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">On returning to Brayshaw Park, GEORGE runs around its train in readiness for its run up the Omaka branch, opened in 2015</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Omaka branch crosses a bridge over the Taylor River constructed by the Marlborough District Council</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Train at Omaka Station ready to return to Brayshaw Park</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Climbing up from the river bridge on the return journey to Brayshaw Park</span></td></tr>
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<br />John Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13039897024736280977noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8111032166994569270.post-33085929397149571802016-02-19T20:25:00.000-08:002016-02-20T06:06:21.907-08:00New Zealand January 2016. 6 - 2ft gauge lines: Ferrymead, Charleston, Denniston<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
2ft-gauge railways were never numerous in New Zealand, but there is plenty of interest in those that exist today.</div>
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There is a 2ft gauge railway at Ferrymead Heritage Park near Christchurch, with its track currently under reconstruction. It has two 'Planet' diesels (locked in the shed) and other rolling stock from Dominion Salt, Grasmere.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Galvanised salt wagons from Dominion Salt on display at the Ferrymead 2ft gauge railway.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The remains of a CSR steel cane truck from Fiji.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Parts of the Clyde Engineering first class carriage from the Fiji Free Train. <br />Other sections and the bogies from this car are stored nearby.</span></td></tr>
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At Charleston, on the west coast, Norwest Adventures run a cave rafting attraction on the Nile River. An adjunct to this is the Nile River Rainforest Train which runs along an attractive limestone gorge, a location for the BBC's 2001 "Lost World" TV movie.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The main locomotive is a steam outline diesel-hydraulic rebuilt from a Greenwood & Batley 4wBE loco (2280 of 1950).</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The second locomotive is CECIL, this time with a petrol engine. <br />It was also rebuilt from a battery loco, Wingrove & Rogers 795 of 1931.</span></td></tr>
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Denniston is situated at the top of a high plateau near Westport. It was the home of a number of coal mines linked by rope-powered 2ft gauge wagonways to the top of the famous Denniston incline. This was actually two inclines, up which NZR coal wagons were hauled to be loaded with coal.<br />
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The 'Denniston Experience' is a tourist attraction featuring a 2ft gauge railway running along the side of a gorge on the trackbed of one of the old waggonways and into the Banbury Mine which first produced coal in 1880.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Old coal tubs half buried near the incline head.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The locomotive in use is heavily rebuilt Greenwood & Batley 2281 of 1950.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">600 metres up, the Denniston Plateau was wreathed in mist. <br />The line snakes around the escarpment above a deep gorge.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">The mine entrance. The train travels a short distance inside.</span></td></tr>
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<br />John Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13039897024736280977noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8111032166994569270.post-67233216252278162712016-02-18T22:30:00.001-08:002016-02-18T22:39:01.930-08:00New Zealand January 2016. 5 - Ex New Zealand Railways locomotivesMany former New Zealand Railways locomotives have been preserved because they had passed into industrial use. Many NZR locomotives were suitable for industrial operators because of their small size and NZR purchased numbers of locomotives of industrial design. Again, a significant degree of variety is to be seen.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">One of the the first 3ft 6in gauge locomotives to be put into service in New Zealand was </span><span style="font-size: small;">this double Fairlie built by Vulcan Foundry (637 of 1872), on the</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"> Dunedin and Port Chalmers railway. <br />It was sold to the Public Works Department in 1900 and has been preserved since 1926. <br />It takes pride of place at the entrance of the <span style="line-height: 107%;">Toitū</span><span style="line-height: 107%;"> Otago Settlers Museum in Dunedin.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">This small Dübs 0-4-0T A67, (647 of 1873) was sold into industrial service in 1897, serving a succession of enterprises until presented to the Ocean Beach Railway in Dunedin by Milburn Cement in 1967.<br /> It is currently under overhaul. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">NZR L508 was a 2-4-0T built by Avonside in 1877 (builder's number 1206) and it passed to the Public Works Department in 1901 and then to Wilson's (NZ) Portland Cement in 1931. <br />It is operational at Shantytown.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">This small 0-4-0T was built by EW Mills in Wellington (3 of 1875) and only worked on the government railway for a short period, passing to the Public Works Department and a variety of industrial users. <br />It is on static display at Shantytown.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">This delightful Neilson 2-4-0T (2306 of 1878) was numbered D16 in NZR service. <br />In 1917, it passed to the NZ Refrigerating Company and is now preserved in working order at the Pleasant Point Railway near Timaru..</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">This 1878 Single Fairle, R28 (Avonside 1217 of 1878) was used by the Timaru Harbour Board and a coal mine near Reefton. It has been on display at Reefton since 1959.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">A classic British diesel of the inter-war years, TR18 was built for Drewry by English Electric at the Dick Kerr works in Preston (913 of 1936) and remained in NZR service until going to the Pleasant Point Railway in 1983.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">A most undignified fate. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">NZR and industrial users had numbers of these Drewry designed diesels from Vulcan Foundry and Robert Stephenson and Hawthorn </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Ex-NZR Ds214 (Vulcan Foundry (D161 of 1952) is displayed at 'Steampunk HQ' at Oamaru. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Put a coin in the slot and it 'spits </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small; line-height: 107%;">fire and billows smoke'. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">This superbly presented Hunslet 0-6-0DM, Dsa262 (4699 of 1957) operates trains at Founders Historical Park, Nelson. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">It came here ex NZR in 1985.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Local builder A & G Price produced small shunting units for NZR. Tr107 (176 of 1957) came to Shantytown from NZR in 2005.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bagnall 0-4-0DM Tr156 (3105 of 1957) came to the Ferrymead Railway in 1998 from NZR.</span></td></tr>
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The following are two of the three locomotives in industrial service on the South Island.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bo-Bo DE DSC2067 works at the Alliance Group's Pukeuri meatworks near Oamaru, and is British Thompson Houston 1071 of 1959. </span><br />
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<br />John Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13039897024736280977noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8111032166994569270.post-71330354436139677502016-02-18T18:42:00.001-08:002016-02-18T18:42:39.813-08:00New Zealand January 2016. 4 - Industrial internal combustionNew Zealand had an interesting variety of 3ft 6in gauge industrial internal combustion locomotives, and a sample is shown here.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">A&T Burt of Dunedin built bush locomotives but also produced this Fordson shunter for <span style="line-height: 107%;">Milburn
Lime & Cement </span>in 1926. It is now at the Ocean Beach Railway, Dunedin.<br /></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hudswell Clarke built a dozen of these diesels for the New Zealand Public Works Department in 1936. Some later went to the Army, including this one, builder's number D592, now in a park at Leeston south of Christchurch.<br /><br /></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">A&G Price of Thames built this very basic 0-4-0DM, 150 of 1944, for the New Zealand Air Force. It is now preserved at Steam Scene near Christchurch.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Also at Steam Scene is this FC Hibberd "Planet" 4wDM (3602 of 1954), supplied to the New Zealand Ministry of Works.<br /><br /></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ruston & Hornsby Model LBT 387808 of 1955 was also supplied to the New Zealand Ministry of Works and is now at the Pleasant Point Railway near Timaru.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: small;">A narrow gauge Ruston & Hornsby 48DS, 458956 of 1961.<br />This was supplied to the Canterbury Frozen Meat Co and is seen here in a playground at Woodend, north of Christchurch.</span><br /></td></tr>
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<span id="goog_1724504162"></span><span id="goog_1724504163"></span><br />John Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13039897024736280977noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8111032166994569270.post-62141608890314128822016-02-16T23:54:00.000-08:002016-02-16T23:54:50.462-08:00New Zealand January 2016 - 3. Industrial steam.<br />
New Zealand had an interesting range of 3ft 6in gauge conventional industrial locomotives, many imported but some built locally.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Manning Wardle 0-4-0ST 1890 of 1916 was supplied to the Christchurch Meat Company and is on display the Ferrymead Heritage Park</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bagnall 0-4-0ST 1857 of 1909 was built for Christchurch Gasworks and now languishes 'out the back' on the Ferrymead Railway.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fowler 0-4-0T 16246 of 1924 was supplied to the New Zealand Public Works Department and is in working order at Steam Scene near Christchurch Airport.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Kerr Stuart 'Haig' 0-6-0T 4185 of 1926 was supplied for use at the chemical works of Kempthorne, Prosser & Co in Dunedin. It is preserved in working order nearby at the Ocean Beach Railway.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">These sad remains are of Davenport 0-6-0ST 1862 of 1920, supplied to the New Zealand Public Works Department. It worked for the Bruce Bay Timber Company on the west coast from 1935 to 1945 and was subsequently abandoned. Coastal erosion means it is about to fall into the Tasman Sea. </span><div style="text-align: right;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Andrew Barclay 0-4-2ST 718 of 1893 was supplied to sawmillers Brownlee at Havelock, While with Lake Brunner Sawmilling in the 1940s, it received the boiler, saddle tank and cab from an 1875 Shanks locomotive. It is now displayed in the open outside the Havelock museum.</span></td></tr>
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<br />John Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13039897024736280977noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8111032166994569270.post-80952325112633106042016-02-16T19:24:00.000-08:002016-02-16T19:24:02.546-08:00New Zealand January 2016. 2 - internal combustion bush lokies<br />
The timber getters of New Zealand also used internal-combustion locomotives, some incorporating similar principles to those adopted for locally-built articulated locomotives. This particularly applied to the use of a cardan shaft to power the log bogie immediately behind the locomotive. When the log bogie was loaded, this greatly increased the adhesive weight available.<br />
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Truck and tractor technology often provided the basis of these 'lokies'. Most bush tramways were 3ft 6in gauge, the same as the government Railways in New Zealand.<br />
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An early type was the Nattrass Patent rail tractor, a Fordson tractor adapted for four-wheel drive and the powering of the adjacent log bogie. These machines were produced by Rail Tractors Ltd of Wellington and some were exported to Australia.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">This example is preserved by the Nelson Vintage Engineering & Machinery Club at Wakefield<br /></span></td></tr>
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Union Foundries at Stratford, near New Plymouth, produced a range of heavily-constructed rail tractors using tractor power units. This one has recently been cosmetically restored at Hokitika for display at Okarito, where it latterly worked.</div>
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Dispatch Foundry at Greymouth started building steam articulated lokies but began to substitute petrol tractor engine units from the 1920s, culminating in diesel truck-engined locomotives by the 1950s. A cardan shaft was used to link the bogies under the locomotive with the adjacent log bogie. </div>
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A couple of rival companies in Invercargill made similar four-wheeled lokies that could power adjacent log bogies. This example, believed to have been built by H & E Melhop Ltd in the 1940s, had cardan shafts to log bogies behind and in front of the locomotive. Note the wooden rails in this display at Tuatapere.<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">Bush lokie mechanicals were also applied to a whole range of other vehicles used on bush tramways. This rather sophisticated railcar was used by Ogilvie & Co and is preserved at Steam Scene near Christchurch.</span><div>
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John Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13039897024736280977noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8111032166994569270.post-31840519203563140352016-02-15T21:30:00.001-08:002016-02-15T21:30:58.972-08:00New Zealand January 2015. 1 - Bush steam lokiesI had two very enjoyable weeks in New Zealand's South Island in January this year. The trip was not primarily a railway-oriented one, but there were plenty of opportunities to visit a variety of sites.<br />
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At first I had thought of producing a daily journal but decided this was too onerous and that a retrospective thematic approach might make more sense.<br />
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So this first episode deals with narrow gauge steam bush tramway 'lokies', as they were known.<br />
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Many tramways operated in New Zealand for timber extraction right up to the 1960s. While some locomotives were imported for use on these lines, remoteness and unique operating conditions combined with local enterprise and resourcefulness led to a whole variety of home-grown products, both steam and internal-combustion.<br />
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A favourite theme for bush steam locomotives was gearing to increase haulage power.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">BRUCE - a small Johnston 0-4-0 geared loco, built in Invercargill in 1903. </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">A somewhat larger 0-6-0 Johnston, built in 1902.<br />This locomotive is on display at Riverton.<br />The middle wheelset was originally just a jackshaft as in BRUCE.</span></span></h3>
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Gearing was sometimes combined with articulation. American logging locomotives were imported for use on some lines.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">A 1913 Climax on display at Shantytown near Greymouth.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">A & G Price of Thames built many bush locomotives.<br /> Here is their 1943 take on the Heisler design, fitted with side tanks.<br /> This locomotive is kept in a cramped shed in running order at 'Steam Scene' .</span></span></h3>
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New-Zealand produced bush locomotives were also sometimes fitted with mechanical linkages such as chains or cardan shafts to allow power to be transmitted to the log bogies in front of and/or behind the locomotive.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">This '12-wheeler' had an articulated drive to the log bogie in the rear.<br /> It was built by Davidson in Hokitika in 1910 and is displayed<br />in a small park inland from Greymouth.</span></span></h3>
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a while since I have had an opportunity to make a posting here.</span><span lang="EN-US">However,
last Sunday, I had the opportunity to have a day in far north Queensland in
beautiful weather because of a business trip to Cairns. There are four sugar mills in an area stretching from Mossman in the north to Tully in the south.</span><span lang="EN-US">First I
wanted to go to Mossman Mill, north of Cairns, to see a multiple-unit “cow and
calf” recently transferred from Mackay. On the way I called in at Port Douglas
because I knew that the “Ballyhooley Steam Express” tourist train would be
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small; text-align: start;">I also had a look at the preserved John Fowler 0-6-0T FAUGH-A-BALLAGH, built in 1900, at Port Douglas. It looks like it has acquired nameplates from a mill diesel locomotive.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small; text-align: start;">Back at the mill, Com-Eng pair FAUGHY and DOUGLAS head off to the locoshed having brought a load from the road transfer depot at the foot of the Julatten Range.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small; text-align: start;">The next place to visit was South Johnstone Mill and along the way I came across Com-Eng pair 4 HARVEY and 5 BRAMSTON bringing a load through Miriwinni, south of Babinda. These locos have been fitted with truck automatic transmissions this year by IBS in Innisfail.</span></td></tr>
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John Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13039897024736280977noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8111032166994569270.post-9919132343226589482014-10-23T16:54:00.000-07:002014-10-23T16:54:40.263-07:00Far North Queensland 20 October 2014<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">South Johnstone Mil's Silkwood depot with its Clyde locomotives. 14 is refuelling while 15 is spare.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Clyde 14 prepares to haul full bins from a siding at Nyleta on the Number 4 branch.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">14 heading with empties towards Japoon as it crosses the Liverpool Creek bridge at Silkwood.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">EM Baldwin 24 stymied at Cowley by a banana plantation forklift stuck on the line.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At the north end of the Sandy Pocket loop near Moresby, double header 6 and 7 MORRISON head towards Mourilyan with fulls while 1 JOSEPHINE and 10 RUSSELL wait to proceed light towards Cowley</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At the south end of Sandy Pocket loop, number 39 waits to proceed south with empties as Baldwin 24 arrives from Cowley with fulls.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In the South Johnstone system at Dinner Creek Road, north of Garradunga, Mulgrave Mill 5, still equipped with a Gardner diesel engine and mechanical transmission, is parked in the loop with a maintenance train.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mulgrave Mill's Com-Eng MEERAWA heading towards the mill with fulls at Cucania. The red headstocks look good with the yellow and green livery.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">EM Baldwin 4wDH MULGRAVE 10 parked at the Mulgrave Settlers' Museum showing its old blue livery underneath the yellow.</td></tr>
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<br />John Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13039897024736280977noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8111032166994569270.post-90208498465702527252014-10-23T16:25:00.001-07:002014-10-23T16:25:36.521-07:00Far North Queensland 19 October 2014A quick trip to Cairns allowed viewing some action at Mulgrave and South Johnstone mills.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">With Walsh's Pyramid in the background, Mulgrave Mill's Clyde 0-6-0DH REDLYNCH is dropping off empties on the Bump Line.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mulgrave Mill's Com-Eng 0-6-0DH CHARRINGA heading south with empties at Harvey's Creek.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">South Johnstone Mill's double header Com-Eng locos 1 JOSEPHINE and 10 RUSSELL cross the North Johnstone River bridge on dusk, heading north with empties.</td></tr>
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<br />John Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13039897024736280977noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8111032166994569270.post-20052950718533185622014-10-23T02:11:00.003-07:002014-10-23T02:11:49.274-07:00Nauru - October 16-18 2014I was fortunate enough to make a brief visit to Nauru last week and managed to see a few traces of its former railways. Phosphate mining commenced in 1907 with 2ft gauge railways. In 1937 the main line from the central mining plant to the processing plant was relaid as a double-track 3ft gauge line with oil-burning steam locomotives. It seems unlikely that the 2ft gauge lines survived for long (if at all) after the Japanese occupation but the main line continued, with Clyde diesels arriving from Australia from 1956 and later two Thomas Hill diesels. One 2ft gauge Orenstein & Koppel has been dragged out of the bush and is displayed at the port in poor condition.<br />
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It seems that the railway was last in operation about 5 years ago but some traces can still be found. Given that discarded machinery is everywhere, it is quite likely that a number of locomotive survive beneath the flourishing undergrowth.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is a 2ft gauge railway cutting built through the coral pinnacles.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This part of the cutting was adapted by the Japanese as a makeshift gaol during their occupation in World War II..</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A 2ft gauge Orenstein & Koppel locomotive on display near the port.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Abandoned 3ft gauge phosphate trucks are scattered around</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The 3ft gauge double track lines are still clearly visible</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The disused tipping facility at the processing plant</td></tr>
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<br />John Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13039897024736280977noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8111032166994569270.post-24279048408579369382014-10-23T01:22:00.000-07:002014-10-23T01:22:34.280-07:00Herbert River District Monday October 13<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
My last day in the Herbert River District looking at the locomotives at Victoria and Macknade mills.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At the Victoria Mill yard control office. Rebuilt Baldwin RYNNE (L) with rebuilt Walkers VICTORIA (R). Both locomotives are coupled to remote controlled brake wagons.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Walkers CLEM H. McCOMISKIE handles empty sugar boxes at Victoria Mill.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Clyde 0-6-0DH LUCINDA with full bins at the Victoria 3-mile. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The first Clyde cane loco - Macknade Mill's 16 with empties near Brae Meadows</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Heading towards the Macknade triangle, Macknade Mill's Baldwin 19 returning light engine from Victoria Mill with Clyde 12 following on.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Victoria Mill's EM Baldwin GOWRIE heads with fulls towards the mill from Blackrock</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A rather shabby CENTENARY, the Victoria Mill Clyde empty yard shunter, makes a foray from the mill yard to place empties in the first loop on the Bambaroo line.</td></tr>
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John Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13039897024736280977noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8111032166994569270.post-17578691728223799622014-10-12T05:33:00.000-07:002014-10-12T05:33:58.723-07:00Herbert River District 12 October 2014The morning involved a tour of the district with Chris Hart.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Victoria Mill's Walkers sugar loco CLEM H McCOMISKIE brings a load of raw sugar into Lucinda</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Sugarworld Shuttle, </i>a EM Baldwin 4wDH on loan to the sugar terminal from Victoria Mill, hauls 23 sugar boxes from CLEM's load into the terminal facility</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Macknade Mill's Baldwin DARWIN brings a load across Ripple Creek</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Clyde in the bush - PERTH on the Lannercost Extension<br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Old horse line bridge in the Upper Stone</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">What remains of the old horse line bridge on the opposite bank</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Remote control shunting. the driver on the ground with his control unit. Loco is Victoria Mill's EM Baldwin B-B DH HOMEBUSH II. at Kirkwood's Road Junction, Black Rock</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">40-tonne Walkers HERBERT II heads south from Victoria Mill with empties near Tokalon</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The end of HERBERT II's train passes by as JOURAMA prepares to head in towards the mill at Toobanna</td></tr>
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<br />John Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13039897024736280977noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8111032166994569270.post-24359412107879174272014-10-12T05:04:00.000-07:002014-10-12T05:04:20.339-07:00Herbert River District 11 October 2014Saturday morning was the occasion of the launch of the book, followed by the Centenary Celebration of Hudswell Clarke 0-6-0 HOMEBUSH and free train rides for the public.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ian Stocks presents Paul Giordani (Wilmar) with a copy of the book</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Centenary celebration at Victoria Mill</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">There were big crowds to ride the train</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Macknade desk in the traffic control office</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Christopher Hart having a great day</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">ALBANY - the EM Baldwin depot shunter at Victoria Mill</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">EM Baldwin WALLAMAN with its Clyde brake truck at the Victoria Mill locoshed</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Clyde HG-3R PERTH brings in fulls to Victoria Mill from the Lucinda line.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Macknade Mill's EM Baldwin 0-6-0DH 14 hauling the raw sugar train back to the mill. The brake wagon has come from RYNNE, a Victoria Mill locomotive</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">. . . and here is RYNNE, a rebuilt EM Baldwin, hauling a train towards Victoria Mill at Trebonne.</td></tr>
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<br />John Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13039897024736280977noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8111032166994569270.post-56447688901921625742014-10-12T04:36:00.000-07:002014-10-12T04:36:50.619-07:00The Herbert River district, Queensland 10 October 2014A trip to Ingham with David Mewes and Ian Stocks to launch our new book 'Salute to the Hudswells'<br />
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The launch will take place tomorrow in connection with the centenary celebrations of Hudswell Clarke 0-6-0 HOMEBUSH during the annual Maraka Festival.<br />
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On arriving in Ingham, there was a chance to look for some cane trains at Victoria and Macknade Mills.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Victoria Mill's 40-tonne Walkers B-B DH VICTORIA picking up fulls at Toobanna</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">VICTORIA's remotely controlled brake wagons at the rear of the train</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mackande Mill's EM Baldwin B-B DH 19 waiting to return to the mill from the Central line</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Macknade loco shed - one Clyde DHI and two Clyde HG-3R 0-6-0DH locos</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From this side the Macknade shed looks little changed from steam days - with EM Baldwin 0-6-0DH HOBART and bogie Baldwin 20</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At Victoria Mill, Clyde CENTENARY is the empty shunter</td></tr>
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<br />John Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13039897024736280977noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8111032166994569270.post-44333712362834878532014-09-13T01:52:00.000-07:002014-09-13T21:40:27.462-07:00Lautoka and Rarawai Friday 11 September 2014<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Two significant things:<br />
1. Lautoka Mill has a small Chinese tamping machine<br />
2. The Fowler locomotive that was formerly in a park in Ba has been moved to a new museum. It hasn't officially opened yet, but it ids just visible inside.<br />
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LATE CORRECTION - Unfortunately Nauru Airlines couldn't provide a serviceable aircraft and the fight was cancelled. I hope to get over there in a few weeks time.John Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13039897024736280977noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8111032166994569270.post-86429855218223211052014-09-11T03:48:00.000-07:002014-09-11T03:48:23.071-07:00Lautoka Thursday 11 September 2014<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small; text-align: start;">The mini Hudswell Clarke 0-6-0 preserved in the Penang mill yard – still in quite good condition.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small; text-align: start;">Clyde 21 at Penang is awaiting gearbox repairs.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small; text-align: start;">A model proudly displayed at Penang to demonstrate a bridge rehabilitation project.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small; text-align: start;">Rarawai Mill’s Clyde 28 parked at the top of the Maqere Range between Tavua and Rarawai.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small; text-align: start;">Ex Lautoka Mill Fowler 0-6-0T of 1906 on display at Raffles Gateway Hotel opposite Nadi International Airport.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small; text-align: start;">Work is going on to recover some of the cane from the derailment at the Elevu Creek bridge in Ba.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small; text-align: start;">At Penang, Diema number 10 shunting empty trucks at the mill.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small; text-align: start;">On the afternoon shift, Baguley-Drewry number 9 heading out towards the west light engine.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small; text-align: start;">In the late afternoon, Baldwin number 3 picks up cane on the Nanuku line.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small; text-align: start;">Baldwin number 3 brings 7 loaded trucks down the Wailevu branch.</span></td></tr>
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John Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13039897024736280977noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8111032166994569270.post-9916269250213424572014-09-09T00:20:00.000-07:002014-09-11T03:56:10.280-07:00Rarawai 8 September 2014<div class="MsoNormal">
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Mill is north of Lautoka and is connected to it by rail. A line extends to the
north from Rarawai Mill to Tavua and beyond for a total of 40km. There is an
out-depot at Tavua. There is also a network of lines in the Ba River valley but
it is very had to find trains in this area as many of the lines do not coincide
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small; text-align: start;">Close to Ba, the navvy line car was attending the site of a recent derailment as witnessed by the spilt cane in the left background.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small; text-align: start;">The gate guardian at the mill is a 1908 Fowler 0-6-2T.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small; text-align: start;">Clyde number 9 in the empty yard preparing for a run with empties to Koronubu.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small; text-align: start;">Clyde Ontrak rebuild 8 BOZLEY brings cane in from the north.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small; text-align: start;">Ex Fairymead Mill Clyde 60 has retained its old number and its livery has been adopted for the Rarawai Mill fleet.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small; text-align: start;">Hunslet 6wDH 21 heads across the Namasau Creek bridge with empties on a delivery run south.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small; text-align: start;">Tavua-based Hunslet 6wDM 21 and ex Fairymead Mill Clyde 56 on a late afternoon run with cane from Drumasi.</span></td></tr>
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