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178 July 2018 JUL 2018 JOURNAL ISSUE # 178 PUBLISHED BY FEDERATION OF RAIL ORGANISATIONS NZ INC : PLEASE SEND CONTRIBUTIONS TO EDITOR, SCOTT OSMOND, BY E-MAIL : [email protected] FRONZ Conference 2018 1 News From Our Members 6 IN THIS FRONZ Award Response 1 Classifieds 12 ISSUE FRONZ Conference Visits 2 Future Mainline Excursions 13 Solar Powered Train 4 Picture of the Month 14 South East Queensland Trains 5 FRONZ CONFERENCE 2019 We are pleased to announce that the Pleasant Point Railway & Historical Society have agreed to host the 2019 FRONZ Conference which will be held in Timaru from 31 May to 3 June 2019. We are busy selecting a venue and accommoda- tion and will have more news as plans are developed. It is 50 years since the Fairlie Branch was closed and 2.5 km of it saved by our hosts, who will help us ensure we have an excellent weekend. FRONZ CONFERENCE OUTSTANDING DELEGATE PAYMENTS FRONZ has still not received payments from several people who attended conference despite receiving further invoices from our Treasurer. Two people representing two FRONZ member groups have outstanding payments totalling $405. Obviously FRONZ is bearing this cost until paid. We pay all our conference suppliers on time, sometimes in advance, and it is important that fellow members do not have to subsidise this debt. Please can all members unpaid ensure that you, or the organisation you represent, pay these accounts immediately. Thank you. FRONZ AWARD RESPONSE This letter was written by Denyse Bettridge to the person who nominated him for the Paul Heighton Award in this year’s FRONZ Awards and wishes to remain anonymous. Thank you for forwarding it to “Journal”. 6 June, 2018 Paul Heighton Award Nomination. I was very surprised to hear that you had nominated me to be the carrier of this prestigious award that reflects upon the Waitara Railway Preservation Society Inc (WRPS).along with the unstinting Mana of Paul Heighton. Recognition like this for the WRPS is a welcome acceptance by our peers in the rail heritage movement, that other “movers & shakers” in the FRONZ executive also saw merit in awarding this award, which also means a big deal to me personally. Paul Heighton always had a lot of respect & admiration from Eileen & I, in which we did a great mutual deal with Glen- brook over gear boxes and a ballast wagon in working order. That is only one instance, but there were many others as well. Paul Heighton was working with us almost to the day he passed away. You cannot help but feel the emotions of those moments, that to be regarded as a worthy recipient of his award is hum- bling, from your peers. I had a phone call from Steve Porter on Monday evening, advising me of this award, which was great and had a catch up on the mutual projects that are being carried out by both our groups. I am really chuffed & humbled by this gesture, my two “Gateway to Employment” young men were pleased also. I do not mind if you share this, if you wish. Regards, Denyse & Eileen Bettridge. JOURNAL IS FOR ALL OF YOUR MEMBERS. PLEASE FORWARD IT TO ALL ON YOUR E-MAIL LISTS 2 FRONZ CONFERENCE VISITS 2018 With a very full previous edition of “Journal” there was no space to acknowledge the numerous site visits we did during conference so they are included in this edition. All FRONZ member sites that we visited made a special effort and on behalf of the FRONZ Executives we thank you all for the efforts. Special thanks go to our Hoist Group, Steam Incorporated who contributed delegate bags along with local information (One has already been to Australia and back and filled with shopping as your editor and his wife headed there for a few weeks straight after confer- ence). Wheelwright Shop On Friday afternoon about forty delegates boarded a Metlink Wairarapa train for the journey to Carterton to take a look at the Wheelwright Shop where Greg and Ali Lang undertake restora- tion work for several FRONZ members. Presently they are nearing completion of restoration of Wellington tram number 17 for the Wellington tramway Museum. Unfortunately, the coach that was to take the visitors from Carterton to Gladstone was rather late arriving so the visit was curtailed some- what. After our AGM on Sunday afternoon we visited the three member sites on the Kapiti Coast. Mainline Steam Depot, Plimmerton Our first visit was to see MLS where Ian Welch welcomed members who saw the new look carriages for mainline work as well as the various locomotives there. Steam Incorporated Our conference hosts opened all the facili- ties at Paekakariki. All the Steam Incorpo- rated fleet was home including Ab 608 and the train just back from their successful season in Marlborough. Three Da locomo- tives were looking good and 1410, recently returned from Glenbrook and already near- ly fully repainted, was running so we could hear that lovely Da purr! Members were impressed with the current ma- jor restoration project on Ka 945 which was in pieces with the massive boiler and firebox sitting on a rotating platform of particular interest. Wellington Tramway Museum The whole fleet was out for the day and running to the beach where Jeff Tollan took the chance to take our con- ference photo. 3 Monday visits. New Zealand Railway & Locomotive Society. Thomas McGavin Build- ing, Ava. This was our first stop and many members that had not before seen the work undertaken here and the sophisticated equipment used to work in digitising the massive collection of railway history were thoroughly impressed with the processes in place. Silver Stream Railway Our next stop appeased all the steam fans with two loco- motives running trains on the line and the chance to see the extensive collection of loco- motives held at the Silver Stream site. New Zealand Railway & Locomotive Society. Silver Stream North End Building Here we say the exceptional work going on in restoring the Welling- ton & Manawatu Railway carriages plus more recent addition to the archive storage areas. Just arrived was thirteen pallets of docu- ments and plans from the recently closed A & G Price foundry in Thames. Some of the drawings here are pure gold rail heritage doc- uments and it is a credit to NZRLS that they have been obtained for preservation. Remutaka Incline Railway Heritage Trust Yes, the spelling, Remutaka, is correct as the Geographic Board have recently adopted the “correct” spelling which translates as sitting down to rest. Here we saw the extensive collection of the RIRHT as well as the Wellington Electric Units owned by the Wellington Heritage Multiple Unit Preservation Trust who plans to restore them. Tr 189 was run- ning a train and restoration work on locomotives Ab 745 and Wb 299 was observed. So ended another FRONZ Conference with our coach returning us to the hotel and airport by mid-afternoon. Photos: Jeff Tollan 4 WORLD’S FIRST SOLAR POWERED TRAIN Byron Bay is a major tourist attraction area just south of the Queensland bor- der in New South Wales. I recently took a day trip there while visiting friends in nearby Casino, NSW, to check out the world’s first solar powered train. The Byron Bay train is an attraction started in December 2017, and runs on three kilometres of the disused 132km Casino to Murwillumbah line which until 2004 transported passengers by XPT train and freight to a point very close to the Gold Coast. Tragically this line was closed when it could have been used to contribute so much to the local community and a wider market. A local resort owner saw a way to get his guests from his resort the three kilo- metres to central Byron Bay which has many shops and restaurants and is a lovely beachside town. He purchased a 1949 built 600 class “Rail-Motor” which was working in Lithgow and converted it from diesel to solar power. There are thin stick-on solar panels on the roof and when sitting at the North Beach station, which is also the depot, it is plugged into mains power to charge the batteries that run the electric motors. The train takes 7 minutes to complete the 3km run and runs eve- ry day all year. When we visited on a fine and warm (by our standards!) winter Sunday it was well patronised by all ages and many family groups. It was running an hourly schedule. There is one bridge on the line and one level crossing. The bridge got a major restoration for the service. At North Beach is a new shed which houses the unit when out of service, and two modern platforms have been built at each end of the run. Of course I took the opportunity to check out the sharp end and the driver invited me into the cab. I told him of my FRONZ posi- tion and with another staff member we chatted about the various common issues we face in the heritage railway business. They have no plans for lengthening the service because it is doing ex- actly what is planned and major bridge repairs would be required if the service was to venture further in any direction. The old favourite subject of insurance came up and they said it was a huge issue. They could not get insurance as they claimed that Lloyds of London was the only people prepared to underwrite and at great cost. This went for all Australian main line and herit- age companies. They required a massive $250million liability in- surance so the NSW Government has undertaken to underwrite the big railways and a number of heritage railways.
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