CONSTRUCTION OF LOCOMOTIVES
Work Being Done At Addington Railway locomotives are now being made at the Addington Railway Workshops for the first time since the late 1930’5. The first of 10 diesel-elec-tric locomotives is beginning to take shape. These units of 400 horse-power, and weighing about 40 tons, will be used mainly for shunting. About 40 of the locomotives. known as diesel-shunt-ers C class (DSC.) are already in use in the North Island, but were imported. Those now under construction at the Addington workshops are the first to be built In New Zeeland. Twenty sets of underframes, cabs, and fuel tanks are being fabricated at the Addington workshops, but 10 sets will be sent to the Hillside workshops in Dunedin for completion.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29767, 9 March 1962, Page 10
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