Bell Hill mill tramway

Bell Hill mill tramway
Johnson steam locomotive of Bell Hill mill tramway Nyberg steam hauler, locomotive and workers
Technical
Track gauge	3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm)

Bell Hill mill tramway was a bush tramway at Bell Hill in the Moana Region of the Grey District on the West Coast of New Zealand. The tramway with a track gauge of 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) was used in the 1910s.

History

The Bell Hill mill was owned by Brownlee and Company and opened in the second decade of the 20th century.^[1] At times the mill closed down due to lack of water for the mill's boilers and for dampening down sawdust.^[2][3] In 1947 the mill was threatened by fire.^[4]

Locomotives

The Johnson locomotive was built in Invercargill in 1906.^[5]

• 
  Timber mill workers on a 0-6-0 Johnson loco, Bell Hill mill, ca 1910
• 
  A sawmill at Bell Hill, possibly Jack Bros' Sawmill
• 
  Abandoned 0-4-0T Gibbons & Harris loco No 3 at Bell Hill

External links

• Lake Brunner Sawmilling Coy's Mill at Bell Hill
• "Barclay" bush train, Lake Brunner sawmill, 1960
• Bush loco crash, Jack Bros., tram
• Log hauling tramway from Lake Haupiri to Bell Hill mill
• Roads
• Brownlies Band Mill at Bell Hill

Further literature

• Daniel Reese: Was It All Cricket? George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1948, London.

References

42°33′28″S 171°32′48″E / 42.557753°S 171.546746°E / -42.557753; 171.546746