I've just returned from holiday in the upper North Island (NZ). While away, I called in at a steam railway I used to be associated with, 30 years ago.
I was particularly looking for a large metal planer they acquired in the 1970s. This machine was lineshaft driven, but the machinery area in the workshop had a low ceiling, and so the rather resourceful engineer they had at the time fitted it with a horizontal belt. It was a fun machine to watch in use - with a massive cast-iron table sliding backwards and forwards. Anyway, to cut this rambling short, the engineer died a decade later and nobody else would use the machine, so it has been sold :~, and replaced by a relatively modern mill.
Some of the machines that are on site include this radial arm drill press...
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Made by Tangye Birmingham (UK)
This surface grinder...
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Made by Churchill.
A lathe...
G3b.jpg G3c.jpg I couldn't get the whole lathe in a single photo due to surrounding equipment.
Made by Mitchell & Co. Ltd of Keighley (UK).
A large grinder...
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Made by BR Rowland & Co. of Reddich, Manchester (UK). I was intrigue to see this machine as I had the oppertunity (but no room in my workshop) to acquire an identical machine last September...
G6a.jpg Its brother at the Hutt Railway Workshops, in September 2105.
And now to the specialist railway machines - a wheel lathe...
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Made by Louden Brothers of Johnstone, Glasgow (UK). The wheelset in the lathe is off a South African garrett steam locomotive, and is probably larger than the machine was designed for, as it's almost touching the bed.
And finally, a crank-pin quartering machine...
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We couldn't find a manufacturers name on this machine. It came from the Hutt Railway Workshops in Wellington (NZ) in the 1980s, so probably dates back to the construction of the workshops in 1928/29. I had some involvement in the purchase of the machine when it was declared surplus by the Government railway.
I hope I haven't bored you all to death, and apologise for the poor photography.
Cheers, Vann.
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I was particularly looking for a large metal planer they acquired in the 1970s. This machine was lineshaft driven, but the machinery area in the workshop had a low ceiling, and so the rather resourceful engineer they had at the time fitted it with a horizontal belt. It was a fun machine to watch in use - with a massive cast-iron table sliding backwards and forwards. Anyway, to cut this rambling short, the engineer died a decade later and nobody else would use the machine, so it has been sold :~, and replaced by a relatively modern mill.
Some of the machines that are on site include this radial arm drill press...
G1.jpg
Made by Tangye Birmingham (UK)
This surface grinder...
G2.jpg
Made by Churchill.
A lathe...
G3b.jpg G3c.jpg I couldn't get the whole lathe in a single photo due to surrounding equipment.
Made by Mitchell & Co. Ltd of Keighley (UK).
A large grinder...
G5.jpg
Made by BR Rowland & Co. of Reddich, Manchester (UK). I was intrigue to see this machine as I had the oppertunity (but no room in my workshop) to acquire an identical machine last September...
G6a.jpg Its brother at the Hutt Railway Workshops, in September 2105.
And now to the specialist railway machines - a wheel lathe...
G8.jpg
Made by Louden Brothers of Johnstone, Glasgow (UK). The wheelset in the lathe is off a South African garrett steam locomotive, and is probably larger than the machine was designed for, as it's almost touching the bed.
And finally, a crank-pin quartering machine...
G9.jpg
We couldn't find a manufacturers name on this machine. It came from the Hutt Railway Workshops in Wellington (NZ) in the 1980s, so probably dates back to the construction of the workshops in 1928/29. I had some involvement in the purchase of the machine when it was declared surplus by the Government railway.
I hope I haven't bored you all to death, and apologise for the poor photography.
Cheers, Vann.
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