Loco built at Addington

Press, 5 October 1984, Page 2

Loco built at Addington

The first major locomotive to be built in a Railways Corporation workshop since the 1960 s is due to roll out of the Addington workshops in December.

It will be the first of four DSJ shunting locomotives. It is due to be ready on December 22, and the other three will follow at planned intervals.

The Minister of Railways, Mr Prebble, spent an hour at the Addington Railway Workshops yesterday in-

specting the DSJ, which is a joint venture between the Railways Corporation and the Japanese firm of Toshiba.

The prototype DSJ had cost the corporation $760,000, and each of the four should cost the same, Mr Prebble said. Forty per cent of this cost would be spent in New Zealand.

Toshiba was supplying the engine generator sets and some other components, while the Addington workshops were building most of the structure and doing the asssembly work. There were also plans to build a further 10 DSJ locomotives, said Mr Prebble. The DSJ locomotive was powered by a single 450 h.p.

Cummins diesel engine arid would be able to shift a 2000-tonne workload up to a speed of 15km/h. The DSJ would be ultimately the standard shunting locomotive class on the New Zealand railway system as the older locomotives reached the end of their working lives, Mr Prebble said.