A Visit to a New Zealand Heritage Railway

Neil Morgan recently visited & took these photos at the Pleasant Point Railway in South Island, New Zealand:

 At Pleasant Point station, a railcar replica / rebuild on a model T truck chassis
These were tried on NZ branches around the 1920s -  unpopular at the time, but now cherished
(Google Colonel Stephens model T railcar for photos of UK examples)

1936 Drewry at (I think) Keane's Crossing station
(Ordered instead of an AW diesel because of cost)

Inside a carriage - reasonably wide for colonnial gauge

Side tippers - judging by the load, in better condition than ours from Shields pier

In working order - Nielson built in Glasgow in 1878 (Nielson became part of NBL)

NBL built many AB class pacifics for NZ, but this is no.699 built in 1922 by Price of NZ.
Withdrawn from NZR in 1968, the boiler of this loco was once mooted to be filled with concrete to prevent its further use.

The photos above are courtesy of Neil Morgan

The preserved railway is a 2.5km section of the 58km branch from Timaru to Fairlie in South Island , New Zealand.   There is much more information about the Pleasant Point Railway on the web, including more about the locomotives.

New Zealand has many steam railways & heritage centres.   Google for more about NZR, NZ builders A&G Price, NBL, Nielson, etc.

You may also like to read a blog post of 4 November 2017 about RSH Husky diesels, including that at Oamuru, NZ.