Cb Class 0-4+4-0 Geared Loco No. 113

Built by A & G Price at their Thames Works in 1924, it is an example of a geared locomotive used on bush logging tramways. It is powered by a two cylinder marine steam engine situated in the cab beside the driver, coupled through a two speed gearbox to a universal shaft and gear drives to the wheels. The locomotive was donated to Ferrymead by the New Forest Sawmilling Company of Ngahere in the 1960s. Repaired and first steamed at Ferrymead in 1975, it was further overhauled in 1981 and painted blue. Because of its slow speed it has mainly been used as a work train and novelty passenger service engine and also hauled a number of dining trains that operated in the late 1980s. After a recent overhaul it was repainted red.

Date

2012

Photographer / author

Bernard Spragg. NZ from Christchurch, New Zealand

Archive

Wikimedia Commons

Type

photograph

Original size

2,400 × 1,851 pixels

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