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Piako County Tramway
Butler’s Spur Incline, Piako County Tramway. The maximum gradient was 1 in 2.
Opened 1884 Closed after 1924 Track length 3.7 km (2.3 mi ) Track gauge 2 ft 9 in (838 mm )Highest elevation 430 m (1,410 ft )
The Piako County Tramway was built in 1882-83, just south of Te Aroha . It was a 2 mi 22 ch (3.7 km ) long,[1] tramway .[2] quartz from gold mines in the Kaimai Range to water-powered batteries in the Waiorongomai Stream valley below.[1]
It was built to the rare 2 ft 9 in (838 mm ) gaugebush tramways in the Waitawheta and neighbouring valleys.[3]
A & G Price's first locomotive was built for the line, but proved too large for the curves and was sold for less than half its cost in 1885.[4] Smyth Bros tramway at Kennedy's Bay .[5]
The line included 3 self acting inclines , the longest being 400 m (1,300 ft ) up a 1 in 4 gradient.
Repairs ceased in 1924 and by 1932 the line was overgrown and unusable.[1]
During the 1950s and 1960s, some rails were sold to local contractors, but in 1966 permission to remove rails was refused and in 1976, council scheduled the tramway as of historical and scientific interest.[1] Category 1 in 1997.[3]
DOC has restored parts of the tramway, now used by Waiorongomai Valley tramping tracks.[6]
Water race and tram terminus at the Waiorongomai public gold battery, with the tram terminus in the right foreground. pre 1898.
References
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^ a b "Piako Tramway" . www.heritage.org.nz . Retrieved 18 June 2018 .
^ "Thames Valley Gazette" . Waikato Times . 17 October 1885. p. 2 . Retrieved 18 June 2018 .
^ "Owners" . www.trainweb.org . Retrieved 18 June 2018 .
^ "Piako County Tramway" . www.doc.govt.nz . Retrieved 18 June 2018 .
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