Knight's tram, Raurimu was a

bush tramway A bush tram and line-side log hauler owned by the Tamaki Sawmill Co., Raurimu. Photographed by Albert Percy Godber circa 1917. In New Zealand railway terminology a bush tramway is an industrial tramway, most commonly used for logging. They are ...

owned by the Tamaki Sawmill Co., Raurimu and managed by Len Knight (formally Benjamin Leonard Knight). It was located at Raurimu in the central

North Island The North Island, also officially named Te Ika-a-Māui, is one of the two main islands of New Zealand, separated from the larger but much less populous South Island by the Cook Strait. The island's area is , making it the world's 14th-largest ...

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, connecting to the

North Island Main Trunk Railway The North Island Main Trunk (NIMT) is the main railway line in the North Island of New Zealand, connecting the capital city Wellington with the country's largest city, Auckland. The line is long, built to the New Zealand rail gauge of and ser ...

. The tramway with a

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of was used for at least ten years from 1912 to 1922.

Locomotives

A & G Price A & G Price Limited is an engineering firm and locomotive manufacturer in Thames, New Zealand founded in 1868. History A & G Price was established in 1868 in Princes Street, Onehunga by Alfred Price and George Price, two brothers from Stroud, ...

, Type C 0-4-4-0, built 1912 with second-hand boiler and a twin vertical engine in the cab, used 1912-1922 B.L. Knight, Raurimu''The Locomotive Owners: A & G Price Ltd., Thames.''
/ref> "Knight's tram, Raurimu", in a clearing in the bush, hauling logs. ATLIB 293489.png, Knight's tram and a steam hauler, Raurimu, in a clearing in the bush A bush locomotive at Raurimu. Price type "O". ATLIB 293277.png, Price type "O" bush locomotive at Raurimu, ca. 1917 Raurimu railway station ATLIB 120238.png, Offices of the Tamaki Sawmill Co. at

Raurimu railway station Raurimu railway station was a station on the North Island Main Trunk, and in the Manawatū-Whanganui region. It opened in 1906 and closed in 1978. It was known as Pukerimu from 1906 to 1908. The Raurimu Spiral is from the station, and rises to ...

File:Raurimu spiral.jpg,

Raurimu Spiral The Raurimu Spiral is a single-track railway spiral, starting with a horseshoe curve, overcoming a height difference, in the central North Island of New Zealand, on the North Island Main Trunk railway (NIMT) between Wellington and Auckland. It ...

in 2007 (no remains of tramways visible)

References

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Locomotives

See also

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