NEW DIESEL LOCOMOTIVE
Railway Calls Tenders (N.Z. Press Association! WELLINGTON, Oct, 31. Fifteen new diesel shunting locomotives are being sought by the New Zealand Railways, the first such purchases since 1957. Each is expected to cost about £20,000. Tenders for the engines, specified as of approximately 300 h.p. each and with hydraulic transmission, will close on January 21. Twelve of the locomotives are to weight 30 tons and three are to be not more than 371 tons. They will augment the present fleet of 70 diesel shunters and will relace steam locomotives which have reached the end of their useful life. The department builds its own diesel shunters, but of more than 40 tons. The New Zealand Railways is also calling tenders for a further 600 kp class steelbodied covered goods waggons, the ones with the extrawide doorways, of 14 tons capacity and nearly 21ft long inside.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30897, 2 November 1965, Page 12
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