LOCOMOTIVE SEEN AGAIN
1903 Driver Thrilled An 86-year-old man, who is at present living in Rannerdale Home, has a special interest in one engine exhibited in the Railways Department display. He is Mr C. H. J. Cox, and the engine is the W-class sidetank locomotive built at Addington workshops in 1889. Sixty years ago. Mr Cox learned to drive in this engine at Cross Creek in the Ri mu takas. It was a banking engine in those days, without hillbrakes, Mr Cox explained last evening, but later was used all over New Zealand on both hilly and flat country. He drove the locomotive at Cross Creek for about three months “It gave me quite a thrill to see it again,” Mr Cox said. “I thought it would have been scrapped years ago, and there it was looking in much better condition than when I drove it in 1903. “I was not the first driver, but it was the first locomotive built in New Zealand and it was my first engine,” he said.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30302, 30 November 1963, Page 15
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