Locomotives
The Goldfields Railway possesses a variety of locomotives, primarily small diesel locomotives used in private industry or for shunting on the national network. The locomotives include:
- Baguley-Drewry 0-6-0 diesel locomotive, built 1968
- Barclay-Price 0-6-0 diesel locomotive, built as a steam locomotive in 1947, converted to diesel in 1972
- Peckett 0-4-2T steam locomotive, built 1938
- Price 0-4-0 petrol locomotive, built 1944
- TR class diesel locomotive, built 1948
- TR class diesel locomotive, also built 1948 but with different cab design
These locomotives are augmented by a collection of velocipedes and motor trolleys that are primarily used for track inspection and maintenance.
The railway has also been visited by steam locomotives owned by others. During Easter 2006, as part of celebrations to mark over 100 years of the railway in Waihi, Y 542 owned by the Museum of Transport and Technology was brought to operate trips on the Goldfields Railway.
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Famous quotes containing the word locomotives:
“The flower-fed buffaloes of the spring
In the days of long ago,
Ranged where the locomotives sing
And the prairie flowers lie low:—”
—Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931)