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Post by delticman on Jun 30, 2018 10:29:03 GMT 12
Did anyone see any trains on trucks yesterday, at least two SD cars (driving cab units from ex Auckland push pull trains from Taumarunui) heading north through King Country or the Waikato? A destination would be great as well.
I saw two on both sides of Te Kuiti yesterday afternoon around 1500 hours but I think there may have been another one earlier.
PM me if you are too embarrassed to post a reply. Thanks.
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Post by Bruce on Jun 30, 2018 10:47:55 GMT 12
On the NZ Rail Geography Facebook page it was mentioned that some of the units that have been stored at Taumarunui have been taken somewhere but no details supplied.
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Post by delticman on Jun 30, 2018 10:56:58 GMT 12
All of the trains/coaches have been stored in Taumarunui since replacement with electric units. Some did journey to Mount Maunganui for possible sale to Africa but that fell through and returned to Taumarunui.
Movements this year have been sixteen odd to Dunedin for conversion to a tourist train. Sixteen may follow. Some cars have gone to Hutt shops and one SD car was taken by road a couple of months ago to Cambridge and thanks to Dave Homewood, I found out where.
So now more are on the move.
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Jun 30, 2018 11:57:46 GMT 12
You should have been in Wellington over the past few weeks, Ray.
Greater Wellington Regional Council have been putting their retired fleet of Ganz multiple-electric-unit trains onto trucks and carting them off to Wellington's tip where they are being crushed, then dumped into a big hole in the ground. KiwiRail very cunningly sold those units to GWRC for $1 per 2-car set several years ago. They are full of asbestos and the cost of removing that asbestos is more than their scrap value, hence why GWRC is paying Wellington City Council to be allowed to dump them in Wellington's tip.
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Post by thomarse on Jun 30, 2018 19:55:14 GMT 12
What's an SD car? On Thursday I saw what appeared to be a small blue locomotive just North of Woodville heading South (on the tracks)
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Post by delticman on Jun 30, 2018 20:18:03 GMT 12
What's an SD car? On Thursday I saw what appeared to be a small blue locomotive just North of Woodville heading South (on the tracks) SD, see the first posting. S series car, ex British Rail Mk 2, SD is for driving matched to SA (Auckland Cars). S cars are on the Capital Connection introduced in 1999 and SE or SW cars on the Wairarapa Trains with an extra letter, depending on their use, S or G. The Blue locomotive tis EM80 a test car that travels New Zealand Railways four times a year searching for problems. It's been around for a long time. |
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Jun 30, 2018 22:16:17 GMT 12
A small shunting locomotive (TR 724) got lifted by a couple of road cranes off the rails at Masterton yard a couple of days ago and was carted away on a transporter trailer.
I only noticed it because Ray sent me an email with a photograph of a DSC class locomotive stopped on the runway at Gisborne Airport next to a Strikemaster and he asked me if I knew anything about it. I did in fact know all about it because I drove it out from Gisborne yard to Gisborne airport for a photographer from the RNZAF Central Photograph Establishment to take some pictures of it posed with the Strikemaster. It was during a No.14 Squadron camp at Gisborne. The air force sent me a large print and I had it framed, but these days it resides on the wall in the operations room at Masterton Railway Station, so even though it was a rostered day off, I went down to work because it has the sortie/negative number and date it was taken on the back of the frame. I then replied to Ray's email from work and that was when I saw the TR being lifted by cranes onto a transporter.
Then, I worked yesterday (Friday) on late shift, and discovered TR 724 sitting at the old Carterton rail yard, which is now a museum of sorts, along with the station building which has been there since 1880.
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