Brownlee Tramway (Marlborough)

This article looks at Brownlee's Forest Railway in the Marlborough District . For Brownlee's Forest Railway in the Gray District, see Bell Hill Forest Railway .

Brownlee Tramway
Dalton's Bridge over the Pelorus River
Route
Route length:	29 km
Gauge :	914 mm ( English 3-foot track )
Legend 0 Carluke Rai Valley Pelorus Valley Dalton's Bridge Wakamarina River at Canvastown 29 Blackball

The Brownlee Tramway in the Marlborough District was a 29 km long forest railway in New Zealand operated from around 1881 to 1915 , which had a gauge of 3  feet (914 mm) and ran through the Rai Valley and along the Pelorus River . The railway was operated by William Brownlee, and later by his son John , who were sawmill owners in the area.

Routing

Long wood in the lower Opouri Valley for the band saw in Carluke

Steam locomotive Opouri with long timber for the sawmill in Blackball

Brownlee's sawmill in Blackball on the Pelorus River

All photos from the Marlborough Historical Society's Brownlee Collection in the Marlborough Museum

The forest railway was built in a relatively high quality, so that one day of the New Zealand Railways Department (NZR) for the route of Nelson could have been taken. Carluke was a settlement around the sawmill named after the Scottish town of Carluke . From there the route led through the Rai Valley and along the north bank of the Pelorus River Valley , on the opposite side of the Pelorus River Reserve and the Pelorus Bridge . She turned east and followed the Pelorus River to Dalton's Bridge . Your route is used today from New Zealand State Highway 6 to where it crossed the Wakamarina River at Canvastown . The former embankment is still visible today. The route then followed the main road to Blackball at Port Underwood .

Locomotives

Surname	Manufacturer	Factory no.	Construction year	design type	photo	Remarks
Aunt Sally	Barclay	718	1892	Conventional		Initially, the locomotive had a winch driven by the locomotive with long coupling rods, during which the locomotive was jacked up. When the winch was removed, it was converted from 0-4-0 to 2-4-2 , so that it can be used better on flying tracks . Shanks boiler, saddle tank and driver's cab were later retrofitted in Ruru . Today (2018) in the Havelock Museum.
Opouri	Stea r ns	1063	1902	Heisler		The American geared locomotive crashed into the Pelorus River when Dalton's Bridge collapsed in 1911. Your cylinder unit is preserved at the Bush Tramway Club .
Twins	Barclay	1130A	1907	Conventional		1130A + B were initially firmly coupled together as a double locomotive rear to rear . They were soon separated and used separately from each other. 1130A stayed with the Brownlees working in Ruru and is now on display in Tauranga .
Twins	Barclay	1130B	1907	Conventional		1130B was shipped to the North Island in 1917 and has not survived .

There were also other steam locomotives and several diesel draisines.

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  Bushmen with musical instruments

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  Excursion trip

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  Excursion trip

Web links

Commons : Brownlee Tramway  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Brownlee's Photograph Collection with 252 photos
• Sailing ships berthed at Havelock 1910 (Blackball)
• Logs being hauled by railway from Brownlee's Mill in Carluke
• Brownlee's Sawmill at Carluke

Individual evidence

1. ^ John Roger Yonge, Quail Map Company: New Zealand Railway and Tramway Atlas . Quail Map Company, 1993, ISBN 9780900609923 .
2. ^ The Brownlees Enterprise . Retrieved August 11, 2018.
3. ↑ Brownlee & Co. No. Unknown-Havelock, New Zealand . Retrieved August 12, 2018.
4. ^ Railway accident, Pelorus Marlborough . Retrieved August 12, 2018.
5. ↑ ^{a b} Industrial Locomotives . Retrieved August 12, 2018.
6. ↑ outing on a trolly (sic) . Retrieved August 12, 2018.