Railway worker with jigger, Greymouth, 1974.

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DescriptionRailway worker with jigger, Greymouth, 1974.PhotographerJohn SelkirkDate of Photo1974.Map^[1]ContributorClaire Ward

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Location (city or town)GreymouthEventRailway worker with jigger, Greymouth, 1974.

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CommentsColman Creagh
Looks like Gordon Ross

Trish Rennie
Looks like Gordon Ross whom lived on the station hill in Dunollie…..I was friends with his daughter Jill….

Phil Millar
Trish Rennie That is a motorised Trolley Trish, a jigger is a push/pull by the surfaceman!

Denis Skates
Phil Millar Yes it is a motorised trolley but called a jigger by railwaymen.

Phil Millar
Denis Skates denis, I am a older railway man
Phil Millar
I’m an old railway man and come from a 3rd generation of railway surfacemen and the push pull jigger was never called a trolley !

Denis Skates
Phil Millar I,

Denis Skates
I'm 71 spent 34 years with NZR in the signals branch.

Murray Webber
Phil Millar my Father used one, as did his gang, was called a jigger

Phil Millar
Denis Skates Well then Denis you should know what i'm correcting then,my Dad had 40 years working on the Surface and being a Ganger,as like his 2 other brothers and they called the push /pull a gigger and a motorised was a trolley,just as i called them when i worked in the bridge gang,in fact i still have my Trolley liscence card still !

Denis Skates
Phil Millar Started in 1968. Heard them called both jiggers and trollies in my time.

Murray Saunders
Jigger all day long
Caught a few trains…
Colin Skates
this is one of the smallest of the trolley fleet and was generally used by one man carrying out a track inspection

Marjorie Mckenzie
Bazil McGrath who worked on the railway, had one of these in Granity for many years.

Colman Creagh
Gordon Ross was the ganger for the area from Greymouth to Runanga,Rewanui and Rapahoe . Bob Harwood and Walter Erskine were his workmates for many years

Paul Agnes Smith
When you quietly catch up with the track gang on a Sunday stock special on the SOL in the gorge and the gang bail off, the comment from the leading ganger, when asked about bailing off was, "Well boss, yer can always get a new jigger, but not a new Maori"...so, jigger it is from a man in authority.......

Kerry Keating
I had a few rides on the short lived rubber tired jigger. It had four detachable flanges to keep it on the tracks. They were pulled out of service in less than a year.

Roy Batt
Does look like Basil McGrath Granity, basil and dad drank together and worked together . Known for a Long time
Real hard case

Alan Smith
I was a track runner on a jigger from stillwater to inchbonnie back to aharua

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Railway worker with jigger, Greymouth, 1974.

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