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English: Wool Train of Takaka Tramway. The 0-4-0T steam locomotive named "Pioneer" was built at Anchor Foundry in Nelson. The writing on the blackboard reads as: "Page & Spurge’s wool for SS Alexander Decr 22nd 03" i.e. December 22nd 1803.  |
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| Author | Tyree Photographs |
| inscription | Takaka Train Linking farms and sawmills of the Takaka Valley and the tidal port of Waitapu at the month of the Takaka River was a 2'6“ gauge tramway. In 1880 John Rochfort surveyed the 8½ mile line and construction commmced in February the next year. Early in 1882, the tramway was in Operation with a s mall 0-4-0T locomotive, named Pioneer, flat top wagons and a carriage with longitudinal seats that could hold 7 or 8 people on each side. The locomotive and rolling stock were built in Nelson by the Anchor Shipping and Foundry Co. Ltd. On 22 December 1903 Pioneer stopped long enough at the south end of Commercial Street. Takaka, to be photographed with a full load of wool. The wool was to be loaded onto S.S. Alexander at Waitapu Wharf for shipment to a Nelson woolstore. Alexander was a 377 ton ship owned by Anchor Shipping and Foundry Co. Ltd. By 1906 the tramway had outlived its usefulness and was dismantled. In 1910 Pioneer was noted in an Auckland scrap metal yard having been shipped there by the same S.S. Alexander. Photograph: Tyree Pllotogmph Nelson Provincial Musemn Collection |
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