Two exhibits of early transport which belong to the museum. Left—A Cobb stagecoach. Right Josephine, Otago's first railway engine, which now stands outside the museum at the north end of the Donald Reid wing. Built by the Vulcan Foundry Ltd. in Lancashire in 1872, this pioneer locomotive made its trial run on the Dunedin-Port Chalmers line on September II of that year, the official opening ceremony taking place on December 31. Later it was used by the Public Works Department before its purchase by the Otago Iron Rolling Mills, by whom it was presented to the museum.
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New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume 81, Issue 6, 15 December 1950, Page 583
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97Two exhibits of early transport which belong to the museum. Left—A Cobb stagecoach. Right Josephine, Otago's first railway engine, which now stands outside the museum at the north end of the Donald Reid wing. Built by the Vulcan Foundry Ltd. in Lancashire in 1872, this pioneer locomotive made its trial run on the Dunedin-Port Chalmers line on September II of that year, the official opening ceremony taking place on December 31. Later it was used by the Public Works Department before its purchase by the Otago Iron Rolling Mills, by whom it was presented to the museum. New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume 81, Issue 6, 15 December 1950, Page 583
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