Opossum steam engine, Greymouth.

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Location (city or town)GreymouthLandmark (Place)Opossum steam engine

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Date Created18th February 2020CommentsJeff Jones
whot happened to the opossum steam engine

Brian Wheatley
Jeff Jones Preserved at Shantytown

Richard Butcher
It is out at Shantytown.

Nina Townsend
Had so much fun on that train

Doreen Wallis
Nina Townsend same

Ceol Mhor NZ
Kiatangata ?

Jeffrey Harrison
Ceol Mhor NZ no it's the loco known as " Opossum"

Kyle Webster
Possum used to be by the round about/ Lord St ....from Ogilvies at Gladstone I think

Kyle Webster
Bit of a write-up about it (pg 33-35 of Westland Indigenous Sawmilling) -in 1909 used for the construction of the Blackball-Ngahere train line.

Kyle Webster
Lord St-indeed the Petrie Ave reserve

Wayne Morris
Looks great Jeffrey.
Vern Pattinson
Remember it well where has it disappeared to

Kyle Webster
Vern Pattinson Shantytown I understand

Vern Pattinson
Kyle Webster

Kyle Webster
Donated by Ogilvies....they were a bit sour on its use as a plaything....It gets a mention in the book about Ogilvies Sawmill

Jeffrey Harrison
Vern Pattinson Restored but not to running condition and kept under cover at Shantytown.

Vern Pattinson
Thats lovely to see that engine again

Grant Jamieson
yea Vern use too have lunch beside it with the girlfriend off n on over the years, was a good spot, was getting pretty rusty tho, wonder where it went?

Vern Pattinson
Grant Jamieson great spot a Grant

Mark Cleghorn
Played on that a lot when was a kid
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Ritchie Mathieson
Mark Cleghorn I think every kid growing up back then spent hours playing on it. I know I did

Mark Cleghorn
Ritchie Mathieson

Robin Gibbens
Mark Cleghorn me to

George Gardner
Storage at Shantytown.

Jeffrey Harrison
George Gardner how it is now at Shantytown.

Rob Lunn
George Gardner thanks for that George I often wondered what become of it

Darryl Tainui
I remember that old engine

Jill Smith
I loved playing on that wee train. It was opposite my Dads Fruit and Vegie shop

Richard Butcher
I was a Cleaner in the Railways when the possum was brought to Elma Lane for a paint job and tidy up before it went to Petrie Avenue. We all did some work on it. I think it is now at Shantytown.

Brian McIntyre
Maybe 1975

Tony Froome
Long gone stuff like that should be put back

George Gardner
Jeffrey, sorry I haven't been in there for 2 or 3 years.

Paul Agnes Smith
Sat on the boiler with a feed of Intermans finest shark & spud on many occassions.

Tony Froome
Paul Agnes Smith they were the best ever Jean had to wrap burgers in paper as no bag was big enough RIP Jean

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