Price's Bush Tramway
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 Wooden rails of the forest railway in
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Price's Bush Tramway was around 1903 a forest tram near Akatarawa in the Tararua Range on New Zealand's North Island with an additional third wooden rail for braking the loaded lorries when descending, as on the Rimutaka Incline .
history
Price's Bush belonged to the sawmill owner Thomas Price (1838-1906), who cut the bush in Lower Hutt and Petone . It was in the inaccessible mountain country above the Hutt Valley near Waikanae on the Kapiti Coast .
The forest railway had wooden rail with a gauge of 3½ or 4 feet (1067 or 1219 mm) similar to either the New Zealand main routes or the Wellington tram . Between the two rails on which the wheels of the long timber trolleys ran, there was a higher, higher wooden additional rail, which was used to brake the loaded trolley downhill, as was known from the steep Fell section of the Rimutaka Incline.
Forest railway with wooden rails in Price's Bush near Akatarawa around 1903
Long timber transport with horse-drawn carts in Akatarawa Bush, Hutt Valley, 1912–1916
further reading
- Tony Walzl: Akatarawa and Pakuratahi Forests History.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bush tramway showing wooden rails, at Akatarawa, Price's Bush, circa 1903. AP Godber Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library.
- ↑ Tracks and Trails: Price's Flat - Area near old Hukinga Village Site along Hukinga Road. Akatarawa Recreational Access Committee Inc. Retrieved May 8, 2018.
Coordinates: 41 ° 2 ′ 26.58 ″ S , 175 ° 4 ′ 14.58 ″ E