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