Gisborne Borough Council's Gentle Annie Metal Supply Tramway

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Gentle Annie Tramway
Replica of Annie on the Groudle Glen Railway on the Isle of Man
Replica of Annie on the Groudle Glen Railway on the Isle of Man
Route of the Gisborne Borough Council's Gentle Annie Metal Supply Tramway
Route of the Gentle Annie Tramway
Route length: 19.3 km
Gauge : 762 mm ( narrow gauge )
Legend
   
 0.0 km Quarry, Tiniroto Road
   
 Wairoa Road, now Tiniroto Road
   
 Old riverbed of the Waipaoa River
   
 Back Matawhero Road, today Awapuni Road
   
 NRZ Junction, on Stanley Road
   
 Childers Road
   
 19.3 km Terminal station, corner of Carnarvon Street u. Childers Road

The Gisborne Borough Council's Gentle Annie Metal Supply Tramway , or Gentle Annie Tramway for short , was a 19.3 km long field railway near Gisborne in New Zealand that was used to transport ballast from 1911 to 1916.

location

The narrow-gauge railway, with a gauge of 2 feet 6 inches (762 mm), ran from a quarry on Tiniroto Road to the terminus on the corner of Carnarvon Street and Childers Road, where the City Bus depot was later built across from the Eddison tram depot has been. The light rail led from the quarry along the rear Matawhero Road, Stanley Road and Childers Road to the terminus at a gravel yard.

history

The railway was built in 1911 by Gisborne Borough Council and put into operation to transport gravel for road construction from so-called metal roads . It was shut down in 1916. The tracks and rail vehicles were sold to Moutohora Stone Quarries, which operated a short field railway from a quarry to the terminus of the NZR - Moutohora branch .

Locomotives

Steam locomotive 'Annie' prior to leaving the works in England to be used at Gisborne Borough Council's Gentle Annie Metal Supply Tramway.jpg
Annie steam locomotive before export at WG Bagnall in England
Steam locomotive 'Jack' of the Gisborne Borough Council's Gentle Annie Metal Supply Tramway and a train of hoppers in the old council metal distribution center.jpg
Jack steam locomotive with ballast wagons at the community's ballast yard


The railway used two steam locomotives from the British company WG Bagnall . Jack with factory number 1879 from 1911 originally only had two axles ( 0-4-0ST ), but later a trailing axle and a tender were retrofitted ( 0-4-2 ). Annie with factory number 1922 from 1911 was a 0-4-2T with side water tanks from the start. A replica of the locomotive is operated by the Groudle Glen Railway on the Isle of Man , and another was previously built in Australia. Both original locomotives were sold to the Moutohora Quarry and used there until around 1924. Jack's whereabouts are unknown, but Annie's frame is preserved in the East Coast Museum of Technology in Makaraka . A Straker steam truck converted into a rail vehicle also drove on this route .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Route from a map in the New Zealand Railway Observer , No. 117, Spring 1968, Volume 25, No. 3 entered into an OpenStreetMap map .
  2. ^ A b Photo of Jack at Council depot and Annie loco, Photo News, March 22, 1967. Retrieved July 30, 2018.
  3. ^ John Roger Yonge: New Zealand Railway and Tramway Atlas . Quail Map Company, 1993, ISBN 0-900609-92-3 ( google.co.nz ).
  4. ^ Sean Millar: Bagnall Locomotives in New Zealand . 2016, ISBN 978-1-927329-06-1 .
  5. ^ FHE King: The Gentle Annie Tramway Reprint of The New Zealand Railway Observer, published by the New Zealand Railway and Locomotive Society Incorporated, Wellington, New Zealand. Retrieved July 30, 2018.

Coordinates: 38 ° 39 ′ 43.9 ″  S , 178 ° 1 ′ 2.9 ″  E