Bell Hill mill tramway

Bell Hill mill tramway was a bush railway 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.

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)

Locomotives

• The Johnson locomotive was built in Invercargill in 1906.[1]

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  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.
• John Orchard: A Short History of Sawmilling in the Nydia Bay Area. In: Journal of the Nelson and Marlborough Historical Societies, Volume 2, Issue 1, 1987

References

1. Timber workers by a Johnson steam locomotive, West Coast. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. Reference Number: 1/2-058143-F.