Messrs. Smyth Brothers' Tramway
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The Messrs. Smyth Brothers' Tramway was a narrow-gauge forest railway in New Zealand from 1897 to 1908, with a gauge of 3 feet (914 mm).
business
From 1897 to 1908 the Smyth brothers operated a sawmill with a steam-powered forest railway at Kennedy's Bay on the north-eastern coast of the Coromandel Peninsula , north of Mercury Bay .
A clearing, 1898
Team of oxen, 1898
Kauri trunks at the sawmill
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locomotive
The biaxial saddle tank - transmission locomotive of the wheel arrangement B ( 0-4-0ST ) 1885 was the first of A & G Price in Thames built locomotive. It had two horizontally arranged cylinders that drove the axles via a spur gear . It was originally ordered by civil engineer James Stewart for the Waiorongomai or Piako County Tramway, but the deal didn't go through. The locomotive was instead used by Mander & Bradley in Pukekaroro from 1886 to 1894 . Smyth Brothers then acquired it and used it at Kennedy Bay from 1897 to 1908, before being used in 1908 as PWD # 511 by the state's Public Works Department for railway construction at Picton and Otira . In 1917 it was scrapped.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b New Zealand Geared Locomotives. Locomotive Owners: A & G Price Ltd., Thames. Retrieved April 24, 2018.
- ↑ Kennedy's Bay. In: The Auckland Weekly News , June 4, 1898, p. 3. Retrieved April 24, 2018.
- ^ A b Anne Stewart Ball: Language of Timber Industry early NZ. January 25, 2014. Retrieved April 24, 2018.
- ↑ New Zealand Geared Locomotives: A & G Price Ltd., Thames, Geared Steam Locomotives. Retrieved April 24, 2018.
