Brownlee Tramway (Marlborough)
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Dalton's Bridge over the Pelorus River
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Route
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Route length: | 29 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gauge : | 914 mm ( English 3-foot track ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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
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 |
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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.
Web links
- 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
- ^ John Roger Yonge, Quail Map Company: New Zealand Railway and Tramway Atlas . Quail Map Company, 1993, ISBN 9780900609923 .
- ^ The Brownlees Enterprise . Retrieved August 11, 2018.
- ↑ Brownlee & Co. No. Unknown-Havelock, New Zealand . Retrieved August 12, 2018.
- ^ Railway accident, Pelorus Marlborough . Retrieved August 12, 2018.
- ↑ a b Industrial Locomotives . Retrieved August 12, 2018.
- ↑ outing on a trolly (sic) . Retrieved August 12, 2018.