Bell Hill Forest Railway

The Bell Hill mill tramway was a forest railway at Bell Hill in the Moana region in the Gray District on the west coast of New Zealand . The 3 foot 6 inch (1067 mm) gauge forest railway was in service in the 1910s.

Locomotives

• The Johnson locomotive was built in Invercargill in 1906 .

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  Johnson locomotive

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  Nyberg's steam winch, locomotive and forest workers

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  Lumberjack on a 0-6-0 Johnson locomotive, Bell Hill mill, circa 1910

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  A sawmill at Bell Hill, presumably Jack Bros' Sawmill

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  Disused 0-4-0T Gibbons & Harris locomotive No. 3 at Bell Hill

Web links

• Lake Brunner Sawmilling Coy's Mill at Bell Hill
• Barclay Forest Railway Locomotive, Lake Brunner Sawmill, 1960
• Derailment in the bush, Jack Bros. Tram
• Langholz forest railway from Lake Haupiri to Bell Hill mill
• Streets
• Brownlies Band Mill at Bell Hill

Further literature

• Daniel Reese: What It All Cricket? George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1948, London.
• John Orchard: A Short History of Sawmilling in the Nydia Bay Area. In: Journal of the Nelson and Marlborough Historical Societies, Volume 2, Issue 1, 1987

Individual evidence

1. ^ Timber workers by a Johnson steam locomotive, West Coast. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. Reference no .: 1 / 2-058143-F.

Coordinates: 42 ° 33 ′ 27.9 ″  S , 171 ° 32 ′ 48.3 ″  E