OLD RAILWAY ENGINE
Napier’s Plea For Preservation* > "The Press" Special Service NAPIER, November 12. Napier is making a desperate effort to earn a last-minute reprieve for a small derelict railway engine standing neglected by the Palmerston North locomotive sheds. Officially Wa6B, but widely known as Dido, it is due to go to Wellington this week to be broken Up for scrap. The small engine was built early in the nineties and for several years drew the Napier mail between Napier and Woodville. Later Dido was on the Gisborne-Motuhora run. After a series of “hack” jobs the 34-ton engine finished life as a shunter in the Palmerston North railway yards. When its boiler tubes burnt out three years ago Dido, was relegated to a siding where it now stands rusting and neglected with weeds flourishing around its stubby drivers. The Napier City Council and the Napier Thirty Thousand Club have appealed to the Railways Department for the small engine to be given to the city of Napier. Dido would be refurbished and set on public display with plaques commemorating her early association with Hawke’s Bay.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29051, 13 November 1959, Page 7
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