The New Railway Engines

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1077, 26 August 1904, Page 2

The New Railway Engines

Ceremony al Thames Price Brolliers Turn Oiil Hie First ol Ten By Tolegraph.—Press Association,

• Thames, this day. One of the ton locomotives, wbioh avo boing built by Prico Bros,, Thames, was sont out o( tlio workshops ycstordny, in the proaenco of a largo Rathorinß. Tho total contract prico was over i' 28,000. The looomotivo is similar lo thuao now boing constructed at tlio Addington workshops, It is a splomlid pioco of work of tho tank typo (W. I'. class), uiul wiiU 0110 oxcoption is tho largest and heaviest tunk locomotive in Now Zonland, Its lonj-tli is 118 foot. m\ its weight 4'2 tons, The boiler hits a pi'iissuie of two hundred poutuln por squnco inch, und Iht'.W'il'tii' tanks liuvo a capacity of 050 gallons. Everything worked satisfactorily, uiul tlio con I factors wore loudly ohcorod as tho engine entered tlio Government sheds, Tho next will bo roady in a fow weolts.