List of Locomotives
Key: | In Service | In Service, Main Line Certified | Under Overhaul/Restoration | Stored | Static Display | Scrapped |
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Number | Builder | Builder's Number | Year Built | Acquired by Ocean Beach | Notes |
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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 Restored 1975, withdrawn for overhaul 1985.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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