The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 5, Issue 8 (February 1, 1931)
Air Conquest.'
Air Conquest.'
New Additions to the Locomotive Fleet on the N.Z.R.
Designed for use for shunting operations or suburban train haulage two engines of the “C” class as illustrated above have recently been built and put into commission by the Railways Department. They are the first of an order for 24 which are to be built at the Hutt Valley and Hillside Workshops. These engines are of the 2-6-2 type with double bogie tenders whose tanks slope downward and backward. The cylinders have a diameter of 14ins. with a 22in. stroke. The driving wheels have a diameter of 3ft. 9ins., and the tractive effort is 13,798lbs. The boiler pressure is 180lbs. to the sq. in., and the tender carries 2,000 gals, of water and four tons of coal. The engines are superheated and fitted with combined multiple valve throttles. The weight of the engine and tender, in working order, is 66 ¼ tons.
“If railway traffic were half as devasting to life and limb as is modern road transport, we should soon have an agitation for forcing all railway tracks underground, and for making the railway companies pay for it.”—
Surrey Comet.
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