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Sunday, 12 April 2020

Visits to a North Island Railway

Rob Fallon took the photos below on visits to the Goldfields Railway in North Island, New Zealand:
Waihi station on a section of main line cut off by a 1978 tunnel
Mid-North Island diagram showing the cut off.
The Goldfields Railway connects Waihi & Waikino.
Storage sheds, goods shed & the ex Rotorua crane at Waihi.
The track is 3'6" (colonial) gauge.
Peckett 0-4-2T (R2 class 1957 of 1938) ex Wilson's Portland Cement No.2,
stored serviceable in Waihi shed

There is an 8 minute YouTube video of this Peckett in operation 

A Baguley-Drewry (3652 of 1968) at Waihi in 2009
Works plate on another Drewry (3650 of 1968) .....
..... shown on a passenger train at Waikino in 2015 - note the open vehicle in mid train
5 Drewry locos (3650-4) were noted at Tokaanu (N Island) in a 1970 letter to the IRS 
The Goldfields Railway logo on a 1931 carriage
The photos above are courtesy of Rob Fallon 

There's a website covering goldmines & railways in the Coromandel Peninsula which is well worth viewing.

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