The Bush Tramway Club is a heritage railway west of

Huntly Huntly ( gd, Srath Bhalgaidh or ''Hunndaidh'') is a town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, formerly known as Milton of Strathbogie or simply Strathbogie. It had a population of 4,460 in 2004 and is the site of Huntly Castle. Its neighbouring settlemen ...

along the Rotowaro Road, in the

Waikato Waikato () is a Regions of New Zealand, local government region of the upper North Island of New Zealand. It covers the Waikato District, Waipa District, Matamata-Piako District, South Waikato District and Hamilton, New Zealand, Hamilton City ...

region of

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. It regularly operates restored locomotives along a Rotowaro-

Glen Afton Glen Afton and Pukemiro are twin settlements in the Waikato District, in northern Waikato region of New Zealand's North Island. The nearest town is Huntly, New Zealand, Huntly, some 14 km (15 minutes' drive) away. The settlements were prev ...

section of the former

Glen Afton Branch The Glen Afton Branch was a branch railway line of 7.9 km (originally 14.1 km) in the Waikato in New Zealand, built to serve coal mines in the Awaroa district west of Huntly, New Zealand, Huntly at Rotowaro, Pukemiro and Glen Afton. R ...

. Open days are the first Sunday of each month. 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 Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams. Coal is mostly carbon with variable amounts of other elements, chiefly hydrogen, sulfur, oxygen, and nitrogen. Coal is formed when dea ...

from mines to dairy factories. It obtained use of the Rotowaro-Glen Afton section in 1974 and has since purchased most of the rail corridor land. The

Line, a former New Zealand Railways (NZR) 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 and Burnand Tramway, Ongarue The Ellis & Burnand Tramway was from 1922 to 1958 a long bush tramway near Ongarue in the central North Island of New Zealand with a gauge of . Route The construction of the rail track started in 1922, after J. W. Ellis and Harry Burnand ...

), a NZR F class locomotive number 185, several diesel shunting locomotives used by the NZR and industrial lines, and some jiggers.

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

NZR Steam Locomotives

Industrial Steam Locomotives

* The rear bogie of Hawthorn Leslie 3663 of 1927 is held by the club.

NZR Diesel Locomotives

The frame of F^A 41 is held by the club. Converted to diesel in 1964.

Industrial Diesel Locomotives

Battery Locomotives

Motor Jiggers

Bush Jiggers

Former Industrial Diesel Locomotives

External links

Bush Tramway Club

References

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