Do you have any information regarding rail-cranes you can share? Please contact: Phillip Treweek
The following list records the Railway and related sites which I have investigated so far in my search for crane information, along with abbreviated notes I have made. Mainly these are pointers to information for later reference.
It is a work in progress, and as I've already chewed through this lot, I'm not currently searching as frequently. So if your site is not listed, or the URL is no longer current please don't feel offended. Feel free to contact me if you have, or know of relevant material at treweek@ cs.waikato.ac nz.
This is not intended as a comprehensive listing. Rather I'm looking for pointers as to what has already been done in this area of research. But I do hope to eventually cover a good chunk (if not all) of the NZ sites that are available.
Process to date - I started with the members links on the
Federation of Rail Organisations of New Zealand (FRONZ) website. Then I
expanded my search using the links pages on those web pages (some of which
are very comprehensive). By this stage I had covered just over 60 sites
and was starting to see a lot of repetition. My next step was to go to the
Piper's (almost) All the New Zealand Web Sites you will Ever
Want! page, which added a few more sites to my list. I then checked
the hub page of the
The NZ Rail Online webring. My most recent search has been for the New
Zealand sites hosted by .
"trainweb.com" . Please feel free to contact me if you have
corrections to URLs, or a site you think may be relevent.
Please remember also that my interest is cranes and not railways in general - hence the most common comment "No crane content" for what in many cases are quite interesting websites. (Note: 'not relevant to research' indicates the site is not NZR related).
A Tranzrail photographic Journey
http://www.trainweb.org/tranzrail/
No Crane Content
A Website about Nelson Railway Society Inc By Nick Stoneman
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hall/6677/
No crane content
A Website About New Zealand Railways by Nick Stoneman
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Cockpit/3316/
No Crane Content
Back on the Tracks
http://www.canterburypages.co.nz/rail/
No crane content
Bay of Islands Vintage Railway
http://www.nzinfo.com/vintagerailway.htm
No Crane Content
Brian Wheatley's Publication Index <
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~abwells/railchat.html#Permanent
Downloadable index database in two formats - very handy
No Crane content
Brian's Planes Trains and Automobiles.
http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/briangr/
Train page
at http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/dilly/b/trains.htm
Coaling crane with Kingston Flyer at
http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/dilly/b/9801-01l.jpg
Bryan McNally's railway photographs.
http://crash.ihug.co.nz/~bryanm/trains.htm
No crane content
Bush Rail Tours http://www.ironhorse.inet.net.nz/bushrail1.htm
No Crane content
Canterbury Railway Society (Ferrymead)
http://www.trainweb.org/canterbury/
Hand cranes 277 and 291 and associated details on pages :
Canterbury Steam Preservation Society
http://steamscene.orcon.net.nz/
No crane content
Christchurch Tramway.
http://www.tram.co.nz/
No crane content
Diesel Traction Group
http://www.trainweb.org/dieseltraction/
Unidentified crane jib in picture on page :
Driving Creek Railways & Pottery
http://www.drivingcreekrailway.co.nz/
Not relevant to research
Federation of Rail Organisations of New Zealand
http://www.railfed.org.nz/
FRONZ home - important source info. Useful links to preservation
societies
Feilding and District Steam Rail Society
http://www.steamrail.org.nz/
No crane content
Ferrymead Railway Christchurch, New Zealand (David Maciulaitis)
http://www.geocities.com/maciulaitis/ferrymead.html
No Crane Content
Friends of Opapa Railway Station Inc.
http://www.geocities.com/opaparail/
No Crane Content
Glenbrook Vintage Railway
http://www.railfan.org.nz/_content/GVR_home_fr.htm
Home of operational steam ten tonner '224' and stored hand 5 tonner.
Details of cranes and support wagons at :
Greg Procter's Home Page.
http://crash.ihug.co.nz/~procter/GLPHOMEP.HTM
Unidentified crane jib (Weka pass)
http://crash.ihug.co.nz/~procter/W192BALD.HTM
Historic Rail Vehicle Trust
http://www.trainweb.org/historicrailvehicle/
No crane content
Hutt Valley Signals
http://www.trainweb.org/valleysignals/
No Crane Content
John Griffiths New Zealand Pages
http://meltingpot.fortunecity.com/paraguay/301/
links
No crane content
John Raby's Steam Engines, Railways, Birding, Videos and
Adventures
http://www2.gol.com/users/jraby/index.html
Enthusiast - possible contact?
K900 Club
http://www.K900Club.com/
Interesting loco restoration material
No Crane content
Kiwi Rails
http://www.trainweb.org/galaxie61/
No Crane Content
Mainline Steam
http://mesopotamia.netfirms.com/Mainline/mainline.htm
No Crane Content
Mainline Steam Excursions
http://www.websnz.com/mse/ Mainline Steam Excursions
No crane content
Mainline Steam trust
http://www.trainweb.com/ttt/mse.htm
Error 404
Mainline Steam Trust Ab 663 (David Maciulaitis)
http://www.geocities.com/nzsteam/mainline.html
No Crane Content
Memory line Steam Railway videos
http://www.memoryline.co.nz/
No crane content
Mikes Train Trax
http://www.geocities.com/mikey_rage/
No Crane Content
New Zealand Geared Locomotives (John Garner)
http://www.trainweb.org/nzgearedlocomotives/index.html
No Crane Content
New Zealand Logging Locomotives (John Garner)
http://www.trainweb.org/loggingz/index.html
http://www.trainweb.org/loggingz/index.html
Useful summary of loco building firms, including references to crane
construction. Text on http://www.trainweb.org/loggingz/builders_1.html
includes references to crane building by
Avonside Engine Works, Bristol, England,
Hunslet Engine Co. Leeds, England,
Peckett & Sons Ltd., Atlas Works, Bristol, England, and
Alexander Shanks & Sons Ltd., Arbroath, Scotland
New Zealand Model Railway Guild http://www.railmodel.org.nz/
Plan sets list Craven 40 tonner at http://www.railmodel.org.nz/planset.htm
New Zealand Railways (John Griffiths)
http://www.geocities.com/nzrailway/
Some pages in common with Westport Railway preservation Society
New Zealand Steam Locomotives (John Garner)
http://www.trainweb.org/nzsteam/
Useful maps
No Crane content
New Zealand's Branch Railways (Ghost railways)
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~wilsong/rail/
Several broken page links
No Crane content
New Zealand's Railways (Peter Wilson)
http://www.trainweb.org/nzbranches/index.html
Problems with frameset
No Crane Content
nztrains.com
http://www.nztrains.com/index.asp
No Crane Content
Oamaru Steam & Rail Restoration Society
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~gsimpson/OSR.html
500Kb video clip autoloads on front page.
No Crane Content
Ocean Beach Railway (Dunedin)
http://www.obr.org.nz/
Home of recently restored crane 297 since 1969 - history and pictures at :
On the Rails (New Zealand)
http://nzrail.tripod.com/
No crane content
Ormondville Rail Preservation Group Inc. <
http://www.geocities.com/ormondvillerail/
(alternative
http://www.ormondvillerail.org)
No crane content
Good link list at
Otago Central Rail trail
http://www.otagocentralrailtrail.co.nz/
Not relevant to research
Paekakariki Rail & Heritage Museum
http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/knwr/index.htm
No Crane Content
Paihiatua RailCar Society Inc
http://railcar.netfirms.com/
No crane content
Links at :
Paihiatua RailCar Society Inc
http://www.geocities.com/pahiatuarailcar/
No crane content
Peter McGavin's Train Stuff
http://trains.wellington.net.nz/index.html
(also homepage at http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~tmcgavin/peter/)
No crane content - but interesting images, timetables, various railway
related things, and huge list of links.
Pleasant Point Railway and Museum
http://www.timaru.com/railway/
No crane
content
Preserved Rolling Stock (David Maciulaitis )
http://www.geocities.com/nzrolling/
Useful listing of locos and wagons - cranes and support vehicles listed at:
Railway enthusiasts Society
http://www.railfan.org.nz/
No crane content
Useful contact information - note research library.
Railway Postcards of New Zealand (David Maciulaitis)
http://www.geocities.com/nzsteam/
No Crane Content
Railway Preservation News
http://www.geocities.com/railwaypreservationnews/
No Crane Content
Railways of Ferrymead
http://www.trainweb.org/ferrymead/
Portal to several Ferrymead sites
No Crane Content
Railways of New Zealand
http://www.trainweb.org/enzedrail/
Wide ranging site with lots of material. Specific references on:
http://www.trainweb.org/enzedrail/images/lines/prebbleton/
mention of disposal of unidentified steam crane,
http://www.trainweb.org/enzedrail/images/lines/waiaubranch/ re
ference to cranes formerly located at Hawarden, Culverden and Waiau,
http://www.trainweb.org/enzedrail/images/lines/waiaubranch/culverden/
reference to a 4 ton crane,
http://www.trainweb.org/enzedrail/images/lines/waiaubranch/waiau/<
/A>
reference to a 4 ton crane,
http://www.trainweb.org/enzedrail/images/lines/waiaubranch/medbury
/
reference to a crane, and
http://www.trainweb.org/enzedrail/images/lines/waiaubranch/hawarde
n/haw_yard3.html
reference to a crane in front of the goods shed.
Railway Technical Web Pages
http://www.trainweb.org/railwaytechnical/index.html
useful glossaries
No crane content
Ray's Railcar Page
http://www.geocities.com/nzrailcar/
No Crane Content
RM133 Retrieved from Oblivion
http://www.geocities.com/rm133nz/
No Crane Content
ShantyTown Railway (David Maciulaitis)
http://www.geocities.com/shantyrail/
Rolling stock including 3 cranes listed at
http://www.geocities.com/shantyrail/wagon.html .
Shantytown (West Coast Historical and Mechanical Society)
http://www.shantytown.co.nz/
No crane
content
Silverstream Railway
http://www.silverstreamrailway.org.nz/
cgi news page reference to yard crane
http://www.silverstreamrailway.org.nz/news/news.cgi?id=5
curious combination of digger and flatbed wagon at http://www.silverstreamrailway.org.nz/pictures/signal/pages/signal1.htm
Site still under construction. No mention of 15 tonner as yet.
Slow Train to Anywhere.
http://kiwibonds.tripod.com/trains.html
Nice photos - no crane content
Steam in Australasia (Rob Dickinson)
http://dialspace.dial.pipex.com/steam/anz.htm
English enthusiast site - lots of links : leads to:
An
Introduction to New Zealand Mainline Steam
and a variety of pages on preserved steam and operations including
Steam
Holiday on North Island, New Zealand 2002 incl picture of Pukeoware
compressed air coaling crane, and a BTC pic showing the tip of 225's
jib.
Steam Incorporated, Paekakariki
http://www.steaminc.org.nz/
Passing mentions of
crane:
SteamRail Wanganui Inc.
http://www.steamrailwanganui.co.nz/
The former East Town workshops are the home of 1904 steam crane '120'.
Details and picture at:
Steel Ribbons (A.J.Hamblyn)
http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Rapids/5972/
Modern 60 tonner at Te Rapa and Palmerston North at
http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Rapids/5972/track1.html
Taieri Gorge Railway
http://www.taieri.co.nz/
No crane content
Terry's Train Trax
http://www.trainweb.org/ttt/
No crane content
Links at:
The Baldwin Locomotive Works Philadelphia, USA (David
Maciulaitis)
http://www.geocities.com/baldwinlist/
No Crane Content
The Barclay Boys Web Site
http://www.geocities.com/barclayboys/index.html
No Crane Content
The Bush Tramway Club Inc.
http://btc.powerlink.co.nz/
Home of '225' and '256' - no crane details on site (Old site, now now
replaced (17 Feb 2003) by site below)
The Bush Tramway Club Inc.
http://www.bushtramwayclub.com/
Home of '225' and 256 - material includes some of my photos!
225 details at http://www.bushtramwayclub.com/crane_225/index.html
256 details at http://www.bushtramwayclub.com/crane_256/index.html
5-ton hand crane details at http://www.bushtramwayclub.com/crane_293/index.html
The Kingston Flyer
http://www.kingstonflyer.co.nz/
No Crane Content
The Plains Vintage Railway and Historical Museum
http://www.ashburton.co.nz/plainsrailway/
Unidentified crane in train in picture on splash page
http://www.ashburton.co.nz/plainsrailway/images/cfm2.jpg
The Railway and Locomotive Society
http://www.railsoc.org.nz/
Requires IE
Summary of Society, publications and archive - huge resource
reference to capsize of crane 200 at Mahuta on Jan 8, 1980 while unloading
components for bridge No.7 on http://www.railsoc.org.nz/arc/archives.htm
The Railways of New Zealand (David Maciulaitis)
http://www.geocities.com/maciulaitis/
No Crane Content
Tokomaru Steam Museum
http://www.tokomarusteam.com/html/tokomaru_steam_museum_new_zeal.html
No Crane Content
The Waitakere Tramline Society
http://www.waitakeretramline.org.nz/
Not relevant to research
TranzMetro
http://www.tranzmetro.co.nz/
No Crane Content
Tranzrail
http://www.tranzrail.co.nz/home.aspx
home page for NZR's successor.
enthusiast material (current equipment) at http://www.tranzrail.co.nz/Enthusiasts/
No Crane content
Waitara Railway Preservation Society
http://members.tripod.com/waitararailwaypres/
No crane content
Weka Pass Railway
http://www.wekapassrailway.co.nz/
Pictures of
unidentified crane track laying:
Weka Pass Railway Waipara, New Zealand (David Maciulaitis)
http://www.geocities.com/maciulaitis/weka.html
No Crane Content
Wellington Tramway Museum
http://www.wellingtontramwaymuseum.fr.fm/
Not relevant to research
Westport Railway Preservation Society
http://geocities.com/westportrail/
No crane content
Whangaparoa Narrow Gauge railway http://www.rail.co.nz/
Not relevant to research