Observer20

Full Name: The New Zealand Railway Observer

Issue Number: 20

Issue Date: April 1947

Volume and Number: 4/2

Pages: 14

Page Range: 19-32

Cover Image: n.a.

CONTENTS

Society Notes

ARTICLE: East of the Waikato River - Some notes on the Thames Branch and the Bay of Plenty Main Line - by J. W. Sutherland and T. A. McGavin

News Note and Comment

Electric Multiple Unit Performance
- EMU_Dm7
- EMU_Dm8
- Trailer_D107
- Trailer_D108
Kurow Branch Train Services
- Passenger services ended 21 March 1947
- Ba_class_loco used on Branch
Waihi Gold Mining Company
- Narrow gauge track
- Three locomotives
- NZR siding has thired rail for Company traffic
Private railways on 'The Coast'
- Burkes Creek Collieries, Reefton approx 2.25 miles long
  - ex NZR loco_R28
  - ex NZR Loco_F184
  - ex Cape Foulwind Loco_F841
- New Forest Sawmilling Company, Ngahere
  - ex Midland Railway Loco No 5
  - ex NZR Loco_La314
  - two Heislers in shed at Nelson Creek
- Stuart & ChapmanLtd., Ross approx 15.5 miles long
  - a Leyland Tractor on the under frame of an old A_class_loco
  - ex NZR loco_F40
  - ex NZR loco_F75
  - ex NZR loco_Fa251
Curve approaching Athenree is 10chain radius compensated, on a 1 in 50 grade
Dunedin Tramway Notes. Ratepayers poll in favour of the Trolley Bus system

Locomotive Notes

Loco_Ja1243 was passed into service on 28 February 1947. Official trials commenced 4 March 1947
Loco_Ka957 will probably be the first to be converted to oil burning at Otahuhu Workshops
Mosgiel turntable was out of use for a while in mid March 1947 resulting in a lot of tender first running
- Loco_Ww680 was pressed into service straight out of Hillside following an overhaul , it being some 20 years since these loco's worked this service.

Locomotive Boiler Numbering by Mr. M. Botten

A new scheme introduced in 1925 say all new stationary boilers numbered from 1 upwards and Locomotive boilers starting from 351 which went into Loco_D130
The highest number so far was built at Hutt and is is Boiler_424 fitted to Loco_K902
The boilers for the new Ja_class_locos being built at Hillside use the range 1389 up (to 1202?)
The boilers for the K_class_loco's run from 1203 - 1232
The boilers for the Ka_class_loco's run from 1265 - 1299 but 1293 and 1294 not in service yet as they are for loco_Ka958 and Loco_Ka959
The boilers for the Kb_class_loco's run from 1300 - 1305
The boilers for the J _class_loco's run from 1306 - 1345
Boiler_1368 - 1371 are spares for Wf_class_loco's (superheated)
Boiler_1377 - 1382 were built as spares for Ww_class_loco's (superheated) with 1Boiler_377 fitted to loco_Ww645 in August 1945 and Boiler_1379 fitted to Loco_Ww494 in February 1946
Old Loco boilers reused as stationary boilers retained their old number
Interestingly, The boiler fitted to Loco_K93 at Addington in 1903 became Boiler_363 after 1925, used as a washout boiler at Paekakariki from 3 December 1926 and was still at Hutt in 1946. Since dumped.
Boiler_1024 seems to be the most swapped boiler Fitted to Loco_Ab806 in 1925, removed in 2/1930, fitted to Loco_611 in 12/1936, removed 11/1937, fitted to Loco_Ab778 in 1/1938, removed in 11/1939, fitted to Loco_Ab810 in 2/1940, removed in 7/1944, fitted to Loco_Ab719 in 2/1945.

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