LOCOMOTIVE TRIAL.
This afternoon a trial was held on the Port Chalmers line of a new locomotive just turned out at Messrs Davidson and Co.'s Otago Foundry. The engine is intended for use on the Awamoko line and is one of several now in course of construction by the same firm. fcteam was got up at about three o'clock, and the run down to Burke's Brewery was done in nine minutes. The engine, which weighs about ten and a-half tons, worked entirely to the satisfaction of Mr Conyers, superintendent of Otago railways.
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Evening Star, Issue 4121, 12 May 1876, Page 3
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92LOCOMOTIVE TRIAL. Evening Star, Issue 4121, 12 May 1876, Page 3
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