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Full Name: The New Zealand Railway Observer
Issue Number: 22
Issue Date: August 1947
Volume and Number: 4/4
Pages: 16
Page Range: 85-100
Cover Image: n.a.
CONTENTS
Society Notes
ARTICLE - The Mount Somers Tramway
- Springburn Branch
- Ashburton County Council Tramway owner. Line opened 1887, operating rights leased to Edward F Wright for 14 Years, horse operated
- First Loco Orenstein Koppel side tank Builder's No 2686 weight 7 ton, cylinders 7in x 12in stroke, (in pieces as scrap at Otago Iron Rolling Mills 1947)
- New wagons made by Habgoods, England 3Ton capacity
- Engine shed at Peaches Lime Kilns
- Mount Somers Coal Co
- Chapmans Creek Branch
- Peaches Branch
- Southern Cross Glass Company
- Blackburn Coal Company rebuilt nearly 9 miles of track to 3' 6" gauge in 1930
- ex NZR Loco_Fa10 bought for ₤2,000 from Ohai Railway Board fitted with airbrakes but Company wagons not so. Abandoned in 1940
- Four 10T capacity wagons built on ex NZR Yb_class_wagon underframes
- Two ex NZR L_class_wagons of 8T capacity
- One 5T capacity flat deck wagon
- ex W&MR 2-6-2T bought from Timaru Harbour Board converted to 0-6-0 powered by a 4 cylinder Leyland truck motor
- Mount Somers Lime Company utilised the two spare axles and wheels to fit to a Foden steam truck
- Ex NZR wagon_Yb150 underframe fitted with Macormack Deering tractor. Abandoned 1944
Locomotive Stocks - 1946