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UC370 being rolled into Grey River Omoto *PHOTO ALBUM*
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DescriptionUC370 being rolled into Grey River Omoto. Date unknown.
Second pic Craig Ladner
Final two pics Aub's Te Wheke PihemaMap[1] ContributorMargaret Elaine Sadler
Second pic Craig Ladner
Final two pics Aub's Te Wheke PihemaMap[1] ContributorMargaret Elaine Sadler
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Organisation (eg business)UC370EventUC370 being rolled into Grey River Omoto.
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LinkfacebookCommentsGary Bennett Shame would have made a great resto job
Lorraine Phillips To do this seems to be such a waste now.
Eric Martini they pulled some out a couple of years ago for restoration. I have a short video clip (somewhere??) showing dumping of some wagons
Zody Ensor They are standing on the good track, while the train is on a make do line to get the train into position. Lovely to walk down there amongst them all, coved in forest above the water line
Philippa Beaumont Where abouts round Omoto is this ?
Paul South Rouned wer big slip was bout 2ks frm grey
Brett McLean Gary Bennett, this loco was recovered from the Omoto slip in 2005 along with 2 others and are all are waiting to be restored in Springfield, Ch.Ch.
Amanda Pike Paul Maciulaitis Jeffrey Harrison
Jeffrey Harrison
Yes at Omoto, the loco dumping started around 100 years ago at the race course end beside the little creek that comes out in to the Grey on the bend, there is ment to be a Canterbury "J" class in there but nobody has ever found it. Anyway the last dumping of locos was by the big slip in the mid 50's, it was a cheap way to stop the river eating away the railway embankment. Back about 10 years ago a group (Midland rail heritage) recovered two "Uc' class locos and a "La" class loco from the bottom of the Grey river were they had ended up. The rest of the locos still on the bank wouldn't be easy to recover with out the whole bank coming down.
Jeffrey Harrison http://www.geocities.ws/nzsteam/omoto/index-2.html
Jeffrey Harrison one of the Uc locos coming out fo the Grey
Jeffrey Harrison's photo.
Jeffrey Harrison 2nd Uc out
Jeffrey Harrison's photo.
Jeffrey Harrison Th La coming ashore..
Jeffrey Harrison's photo.
Barry Butcher Some UC's and UB's were dumped in 1958
Zody Ensor I would love to have been there to see them coming out, Jeffery Keep us up to date on these trains restoration if you can mate, have you got any more photos of them out of the river?
Eric Martini Have uploaded a video clip that has footage of the dumping. couldn't upload video to this post. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10204542472626799&set=o.796216413725000&type=2&theater
Jeffrey Harrison I've got lots of photos of them coming out of the river, even had some published in the NZ Railfan mag back then too smile emoticon as for updates on them... there isn't any, they have been sitting out in the field behind the Springfield railway station with nothing having been done on them at all.
Zody Ensor I thought so
Jeffrey Harrison Funny thing is my Dad as a young man watched them go in the river, years later I watched some of them coming out!
Zody Ensor "It'll buff right out"
June Griggs I watched them go in when i was a child. My Dad took us down to watch.
Lynda Campbell-Harris Why were they rolled into the river?
Jeffrey Harrison To stop the Grey river eating te bottom of te railway embankment.
Alec Birch UC 370 on the afternoon passenger to Hokitika December 1952. John Creber photo
Alec Birch's photo.
Nicola Jane Amazing
Barry Butcher Some were dumped in 1958
Alaine Bright
Just criminal when you think about it these days but back then I guess they were thought of as disposable once they reached the end of their working life.
James Crooks
Alaine Bright nope was not thought as disposable was to help hold up the omoto slip there were couple out there for that reason
Trish Rennie
Likely one of the engines my father worked on during the war years
Stewart Reynolds
Is it still there?
Craig Ladner
Stewart Reynolds not sure if this is 1 we pulled out
May be an image of outdoors
Stewart Reynolds
Awesome
Lyndal Coates
Ian Coates Ian Coates isn't there a story about this with gdad?
Ian Coates
Lyndal Coates yep he is on the film when they were hooking out the wrecks out of the river,and your great ,great grandfather was in charge of the work you see in the picture when they were pushing those old wrecks down the bank.
Cobden Kidd
Lorrayn Dash this is the train luke was telling me about when they were rafting down the grey lol
Kirsty Cadigan
Very interesting
Roger O'Regan
Hind sight is a wonderful thing isn't it. Look at all the scrap metal dealers travelling the Coast picking up horse drawn implements, old tractors, and anything metal. We never knew the future value but the scarcity has made what is left even more precious. Great that one or two of these locos could be reclaimed and be part of our rich history. Big ups to the guys who rolled them into the rivers for ground stability (pragmatic) and big ups to those who retrieved any. Simply part of our history.
Steven Paul Duncan
Omotmoto creek
MIcheal Hunt
i wonder if my dad was invovled in this was a engine driver in otira in 58Patsy Grant
What a waste
Warner Nut Curry
Sob Sob
Murry McKendry
Was either that or having no railway line due to river erosion
Rauma McIlwraith
Wow that's amazing
Lorraine Phillips To do this seems to be such a waste now.
Eric Martini they pulled some out a couple of years ago for restoration. I have a short video clip (somewhere??) showing dumping of some wagons
Zody Ensor They are standing on the good track, while the train is on a make do line to get the train into position. Lovely to walk down there amongst them all, coved in forest above the water line
Philippa Beaumont Where abouts round Omoto is this ?
Paul South Rouned wer big slip was bout 2ks frm grey
Brett McLean Gary Bennett, this loco was recovered from the Omoto slip in 2005 along with 2 others and are all are waiting to be restored in Springfield, Ch.Ch.
Amanda Pike Paul Maciulaitis Jeffrey Harrison
Jeffrey Harrison
Yes at Omoto, the loco dumping started around 100 years ago at the race course end beside the little creek that comes out in to the Grey on the bend, there is ment to be a Canterbury "J" class in there but nobody has ever found it. Anyway the last dumping of locos was by the big slip in the mid 50's, it was a cheap way to stop the river eating away the railway embankment. Back about 10 years ago a group (Midland rail heritage) recovered two "Uc' class locos and a "La" class loco from the bottom of the Grey river were they had ended up. The rest of the locos still on the bank wouldn't be easy to recover with out the whole bank coming down.
Jeffrey Harrison http://www.geocities.ws/nzsteam/omoto/index-2.html
Jeffrey Harrison one of the Uc locos coming out fo the Grey
Jeffrey Harrison's photo.
Jeffrey Harrison 2nd Uc out
Jeffrey Harrison's photo.
Jeffrey Harrison Th La coming ashore..
Jeffrey Harrison's photo.
Barry Butcher Some UC's and UB's were dumped in 1958
Zody Ensor I would love to have been there to see them coming out, Jeffery Keep us up to date on these trains restoration if you can mate, have you got any more photos of them out of the river?
Eric Martini Have uploaded a video clip that has footage of the dumping. couldn't upload video to this post. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10204542472626799&set=o.796216413725000&type=2&theater
Jeffrey Harrison I've got lots of photos of them coming out of the river, even had some published in the NZ Railfan mag back then too smile emoticon as for updates on them... there isn't any, they have been sitting out in the field behind the Springfield railway station with nothing having been done on them at all.
Zody Ensor I thought so
Jeffrey Harrison Funny thing is my Dad as a young man watched them go in the river, years later I watched some of them coming out!
Zody Ensor "It'll buff right out"
June Griggs I watched them go in when i was a child. My Dad took us down to watch.
Lynda Campbell-Harris Why were they rolled into the river?
Jeffrey Harrison To stop the Grey river eating te bottom of te railway embankment.
Alec Birch UC 370 on the afternoon passenger to Hokitika December 1952. John Creber photo
Alec Birch's photo.
Nicola Jane Amazing
Barry Butcher Some were dumped in 1958
Alaine Bright
Just criminal when you think about it these days but back then I guess they were thought of as disposable once they reached the end of their working life.
James Crooks
Alaine Bright nope was not thought as disposable was to help hold up the omoto slip there were couple out there for that reason
Trish Rennie
Likely one of the engines my father worked on during the war years
Stewart Reynolds
Is it still there?
Craig Ladner
Stewart Reynolds not sure if this is 1 we pulled out
May be an image of outdoors
Stewart Reynolds
Awesome
Lyndal Coates
Ian Coates Ian Coates isn't there a story about this with gdad?
Ian Coates
Lyndal Coates yep he is on the film when they were hooking out the wrecks out of the river,and your great ,great grandfather was in charge of the work you see in the picture when they were pushing those old wrecks down the bank.
Cobden Kidd
Lorrayn Dash this is the train luke was telling me about when they were rafting down the grey lol
Kirsty Cadigan
Very interesting
Roger O'Regan
Hind sight is a wonderful thing isn't it. Look at all the scrap metal dealers travelling the Coast picking up horse drawn implements, old tractors, and anything metal. We never knew the future value but the scarcity has made what is left even more precious. Great that one or two of these locos could be reclaimed and be part of our rich history. Big ups to the guys who rolled them into the rivers for ground stability (pragmatic) and big ups to those who retrieved any. Simply part of our history.
Steven Paul Duncan
Omotmoto creek
MIcheal Hunt
i wonder if my dad was invovled in this was a engine driver in otira in 58Patsy Grant
What a waste
Warner Nut Curry
Sob Sob
Murry McKendry
Was either that or having no railway line due to river erosion
Rauma McIlwraith
Wow that's amazing
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