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Full Name: Observer

Issue Number: 15

Issue Date: June 1946

Volume and Number: 3/3

Pages: 20

Page Range:

Cover Image: n.a.

CONTENTS

Society Notes

Railways of New Caledonia - by A. N. Palmer

The Takapuna Steam Tramway - by W. W. Stewart

• Operated by Takapuna Tramways and Ferry Company Limited (TTF)
• Loco_TTF1 Kerr Stewart from 1909, Maker No 1096, originally named "Waitemata", scrapped 1927
• Loco_TTF2 Kerr Stewart from 1909, Maker No 1137, originally named "Bayswater", boiler went to Waitemata Brewery
• Loco_TTF3 Kerr Stewart from 1911, Maker No 1216. Boiler sol to NZ Dairy Co 1927
• Loco_TTF4 Baldwin from 1911, Maker No 418 C96 37168. Boiler sol to NZ Dairy Co 1927
• Loco_TTF5 Baldwin from 1919, Maker No 418 C117 52128. Boiler sol to NZ Dairy Co 1927
• Loco_TTF6 Baldwin from 1919, Maker No 418 C119 52205. Boiler sol to NZ Dairy Co 1927
• Loco_TTF7 Kerr Stewart from 1924, Maker No 4301. Boiler fitted to stationary Engine ex Calliope Wharf in 1927 and became a log hauler for Gammon & Co, Mamaku
• tram cars made by Cousins and Cousins in Auckland on Brush undergear in lots of 6, 5 and 2. 9 Sold to Wanganui (complete) 4 to Dunedin (minus bogies)

New Zealand Locomotive Performance Part 12 - by T. A. McGavin

• Loco_Ka937
• Loco_Ka956
• Loco_Ka955
• Loco_Ka962
• Loco_Ka930
• "Field's Expresses"
• Loco_Ab831
• Loco_Ww492
• Loco_Ab720
• Train_149
• Loco_Ab808

News Notes and Comment

• Auckland Suburban Electrification
• Train Servise Improvements
• Passenger Service withdrawn from Waitara Branch
• New Railcar Shed at Linwood is in use
• A new Crossing loop being constructed at Amberley turning the platform into an Island, a similar change expected at Rangiora
• Overseas Notes
  • South Africa
  • Western Australia
  • Queensland
• Old T_class_loco boiler
• Sanson Tramway
  • Decision made to Dismantle
  • Loco_R29 to come up for sale around August 1946
  • April 1946 inspection report
  • Ohakea Airport Siding also lifted
• Mines Dept Private Siding at Kimihia
  • recently opened to serve opencast mine, 2miles 22ch long following route of earlier lines
• Locomotive cleanliness
  • Loco_Ec10 the only electric reasonably clean
  • Loco_Ec7 particularly dirty
  • Loco_Wab767 and Loco_Wab800 looking particularly tidy in Wellington

Locomotive Notes

• Loco_A600 transferred from Wellington back to Palmerston North
• Loco_Ww492 Transferred from Wellington to Wanganui. this was the only one in Wellington with a Waikato Spark Arrester
• Roller bearings awaited for Ja_class_loco's finally arrived
• A disabled railcar hauled by Loco_Ub364 from Greymouth to Christchurch with some challenges
• Loco_Ub364 then pulled Loco_Ab688 to Hillside
• Loco_Ab688 had been severely damaged in the Islington smash after the over-run of a signal in thick fog
• Observed that all Linwood-based locos have class and number on front and rear buffer-beams, except Ub_Class_locos which have them on the smoke-box door
• Loco_Ub329 on a passenger service from Rangiora
• Loco_Q343 assisted a J_class_Loco from Dunedin to Seacliff with the morning express bound for Christchurch