Knight's tram, Raurimu was a bush tramway owned by the Tamaki Sawmill Co., Raurimu and managed by Len Knight (formally Benjamin Leonard Knight).[1] It was located at Raurimu in the central North Island of New Zealand, connecting to the North Island Main Trunk Railway. The tramway with a track gauge of 3+1⁄2 feet (1,067 mm) was used for at least ten years from 1912 to 1922.
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Locomotives
edit- A & G Price, Type C 0-4-4-0, built 1912 with second-hand boiler and a twin vertical engine in the cab,[2] used 1912-1922 B.L. Knight, Raurimu[3]
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Knight's tram and a steam hauler, Raurimu, in a clearing in the bush -
Price type "O" bush locomotive at Raurimu, ca. 1917 -
Offices of the Tamaki Sawmill Co. at Raurimu railway station -
Raurimu Spiral in 2007 (no remains of tramways visible)
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Tamaki Sawmill Company. Collection Ref No 91/7 held by Auckland Museum Library.
- ^ Industrial Steam Locomotives. Archived 28 January 2018 at the Wayback Machine In: Newsletter, December 2017, Tauranga Model Marine and Engineering Club Inc.
- ^ The Locomotive Owners: A & G Price Ltd., Thames.