SCOTTISH ENGINES

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20132, 29 December 1939, Page 5

SCOTTISH ENGINES

ARRIVAL AT WELLINGTON EXPRESS TRAIN SERVICE Carried .as deck cargo and painted grey, the colour of the ship’s hull, six locomotives of the J class, built for the New Zealand Railways Department by the North ■British Locomotive Company, Glasgow, have arrived at Wellington, making a total of 26 since early in September.

With the arrival at Wellington in the near future of four more < f these locomotives the North Island quota of ?0 will have been delivered. In all, 40 J class engines were ordered, but the remaining 10 will be operated on South Island lines and will be unloaded at a Soutn Island port. Less than four months have elapsed since the first of the new J’s was delivered at Wellington. and 19 of these engines are : !• ready in service hauling express trains.

Within recent weeks locomotive depots in the North Island have been provided with additional motive power to help to cope with the heavy demands created by the Christmas and cento ini a 1 rush traffic. Most of the new engines are in the Auckland district, but three are at present attached to the Wellington depot, two are at Tnihape, and two more at Taumarunui. One or two are also operating from the locomotive depot. Palmerston North, and a further J is almost ready to leave Hutt Valley workshops. Each locomotive, without lender, weighs 62 tons.