The Gentle Annie Tramway or Gisborne Borough Council’s Gentle Annie Metal Supply Tramway was a

narrow gauge A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge narrower than standard . Most narrow-gauge railways are between and . Since narrow-gauge railways are usually built with tighter curves, smaller structu ...

railway which formerly ran from

Gisborne, New Zealand Gisborne ( mi, Tūranga-nui-a-Kiwa "Great standing place of Kiwa") is a city in northeastern New Zealand and the largest settlement in the Gisborne District (or Gisborne Region). It has a population of The district council has its headquarter ...

to the Gentle Annie quarry, a distance of . The tramway was built in 1911 by the Gisborne Borough Council to transport

road metal A road surface (British English), or pavement (American English), is the durable surface material laid down on an area intended to sustain vehicular or foot traffic, such as a road or walkway. In the past, gravel road surfaces, hoggin, cobbles ...

to the Council depot in downtown Gisborne. The track was of gauge and followed alongside the local roads. The tramway closed in 1916 and all equipment was sold to Moutohora Stone Quarries, which had a short tramway from a nearby quarry to the

Moutohora Branch The Moutohora Branch was a branch line railway that formed part of New Zealand's national rail network in Poverty Bay in the North Island of New Zealand. The branch ran for 78 km approximately North-West from Gisborne into the rugged a ...

terminus.

Locomotives

The tramway operated two

W. G. Bagnall W. G. Bagnall was a locomotive manufacturer from Stafford, England which was founded in 1875 and operated until it was taken over in 1962 by English Electric. History The company was founded in 1875 by William Gordon Bagnall. The majority ...

locomotives. "Jack", was works No. 1879 of 1911. It was originally 0-4-0ST, but was later modified with a trailing axle and tender to be a 0-4-2. "Jack" was delivered from the Bagnall Locomotive Works, England, on 26 January 1911. It had a weight of 5.25 tons and measured over the buffers. "Jack's" weight increased to 7 tons, when the tender was added by the council. "Annie", works No. 1922 also of 1911, was built a 0-4-2T side tank. "Annie" arrived from the Bagnall Works on the S.S."Squall" on 23 March 1912, and was stationed at the quarry end of the tramway. A replica locomotive operates at the

Groudle Glen Railway The Groudle Glen Railway ( Manx: ''Raad Yiarn Glion Ghroudal'') is a narrow gauge railway near Onchan in the Isle of Man, on the boundary of Onchan and Lonan, which is owned and operated by a small group of enthusiastic volunteers and oper ...

on the

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, and another was built beforehand in Australia. Both locos worked at Moutohora Quarry until being laid up circa 1924. The whereabouts of "Jack" are unknown, but the frames of "Annie" have been preserved at the East Coast Museum of Technology, Makaraka. The tramway also used a Straker steam road waggon converted to rail use.F.H.E. King
''The Gentle Annie Tramway''
Reprinted from The New Zealand Railway Observer and published by the New Zealand Railway and Locomotive Society Incorporated, Wellington, New Zealand. Retrieved on 30 July 2018.

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