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Bush tramway club 2016
The Bush Tramway Club is a heritage railway 12 km west of Huntly along the Rotowaro Road, in the Waikato region of New Zealand. It regularly operates restored locomotives along a 5.4 km Rotowaro-Glen Afton section of the former Glen Afton Branch. Open days are the first Sunday of the month, April to December (inclusive).
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- Bush tramway club 2016
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- Industrial Steam Locomotives
- NZR Diesel Locomotives
- References
The Bush Tramway Club was founded in 1965 to preserve equipment from New Zealand’s former bush tramways and light industrial lines, railway lines which were used to remove timber from the bush and transport coal to and from mines and dairy factories. It obtained use of the Rotowaro-Glen Afton section in 1974, and has since purchased most of the rail corridor land. The Glen Afton Branch Line, a former New Zealand Railways branch line to the Pukemiro coal mine was opened in 1915 and closed in 1973.
The locomotives include geared Climax and Heisler locomotives (formerly used on the Ellis & Burnand, Ongarue tramway), a F class No. F 185 of the New Zealand Railways Department, several diesel shunting locomotives used by the NZR and industrial lines, and some "jiggers".
Bush tramway club hd
Industrial Steam Locomotives
NZR Diesel Locomotives
The frame of FA 41 is held by the club. Converted to diesel in 1964.