Ocean Beach Railway - List of Locomotives

List of Locomotives

Key: In Service In Service, Main Line Certified Under Overhaul/Restoration Stored Static Display Scrapped
Number Builder Builder's Number Year Built Acquired by Ocean Beach Notes
A 67 Dubs & Co. 647 1873 1967 Acquired from Milburn Cement, 1967. Currently oldest operational locomotive in New Zealand.
A 66 Dubs & Co. 648 1873 1973 Plinthed next to Josephine at Otago Settlers Museum until 1973. Leased to Caenarvon Restaurant from 1981 until 1988 when loco was damaged by restaurant fire. Moved to Middlemarch for Display until 2000 when leased to Waimea Plains Railway.
F 111 Dubs & Co 1233 1879 ? Obtained from Oamaru Harbour Board. Restored 1975, withdrawn for overhaul 1985. Overhaul commenced 2007, in need of a new boiler.
F 150 Dubs & Co 1371 1880 1974 Displayed in an Invercargill Park until obtained by OBR. Leased to Plains Railway from 1986.
D 6 Neilson & Co. 2564 1880 1965 Sold by NZR to Taratu Coal. Sold in 1940 to McDonald's Lime, Oamaru until 1965 when acquired by Ocean Beach Railway. Stored awaiting eventual restoration.
PWD 540 John Fowler & Co. 15912 1921 1960 First Preserved Steam Locomotive with intent to use in working condition. Obtained from Otago Harbour Board, in whose ownership it had been working at the Aramoana Mole since 1951. Stored awaiting overhaul.
Traills Tractor A&T Burt. 126 1926 1997 Built for Milburn Cement. Displayed at a Kindergarten until 1997, to Ocean Beach Railway. Stored.
Haig 4815 Kerr Stuart. 4815 1929 ? Built for Kempthorne Prosser. In service.
Tr 81 Drewry 2097 1939 ? Originally built to NZR "Baby Drewry" type for Ohai Railway Board. Sold to NZR, became their Tr 81 (later TR309). Sold to Ocean Beach Railway, and later restored to Ohai Railway Board appearance. In service.
DSA 252 Hunslet 4530 1954 2005 Owned by Silver Fern Farms ex the former Burnside freezing works and on loan to Ocean Beach Railway, under the proviso that should it be needed it must be returned. In service.
DSA 256 Hunslet 4534 1954 2000 Purchased by Fiordland Vintage Machinery Museum for proposed railway at Te Anau. Owned privately and stored at Ocean Beach Railway. Now owned by Ocean Beach Railway
DS 203 Drewry/Vulcan 2527 1955 1982 In service, occasionally used on passenger trains.
Price 185 A&G Price 185 1958 1993 Built for Alliance Freezing Works, Lorneville. To Ocean Beach Railway 1993, stored.

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