Knight's Tram
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 Knight's Tram, Raurimu, with logs on a trestle bridge
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| Gauge : | 1067 mm ( cape track ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Knight's Tram (Raumiru) was a forest tram of the Tamaki Sawmill Co., Raurimu , which was run by Len Knight (actually Benjamin Leonard Knight). It branches in Raurimu in the center of New Zealand's North Island from the North Iceland Main Trunk Railway from. The forest railway had a gauge of 3½ feet (1067 mm) and was in operation from 1912 to 1922 for at least ten years.
Locomotives
- A. & G. Price , type C 0-4-4-0 , built in 1912 with a second-hand boiler and a vertical twin steam engine in the driver's cab. used 1912-1922 BL Knight, Raurimu
Knight's Tram and a steam cable winch in a clearing near Raumiru
Price type "O" forest railway locomotive near Raurimu around 1917
Tamaki Sawmill Co. office at Raumiru NZR station
Raurimu spiral , 2007 (without remnants of the tram routes)
See also
Web links
Commons : Knight's tram, Raurimu - collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ^ Tamaki Sawmill Company. Auckland Museum Library Archives reference number 91/7.
- ↑ Industrial Steam Locmotives. In: Newsletter, December 2017, Tauranga Model Marine and Engineering Club Inc.
- ^ The Locomotive Owners: A & G Price Ltd., Thames.
Coordinates: 39 ° 7 ′ 15.6 ″ S , 175 ° 23 ′ 46 ″ O