The Petone Workshops were a government-owned railways maintenance and repair facility located in Petone, in Lower Hutt in the Wellington region of New Zealand's North Island. It took over construction and maintenance of rolling stock in the Wellington region from the Pipitea Point facility, starting in 1876,[1] and became the only such facility in the region from 1878[2] until the opening of the replacement Hutt Workshops facility in 1929.[3]
^Cameron, Walter Norman (1976). "Chapter 4: Construction And Operation, Wellington To Upper Hutt". A Line Of Railway: The Railway Conquest of the Rimutakas. Wellington, New Zealand: The New Zealand Railway and Locomotive Society. p. 80. ISBN 0-908573-00-6. Petoni offered the best proposition for siting the workshops, and it was here that a very modest start was made in 1876.
^Cameron, Walter Norman. "Chapter 4: Construction And Operation, Wellington To Upper Hutt". A Line Of Railway: The Railway Conquest of the Rimutakas. p. 80. ... work did not start in earnest until 1878.
^Hoy, Douglas G. (1970). "10: The Hutt Valley Branch – And Other Changes". Rails Out Of The Capital: Suburban Railways, Wellington. Wellington, New Zealand: The New Zealand Railway and Locomotive Society. p. 58. ... the whole plant was completed by 1929, and the first locomotives began emerging the following year.
The PetoneWorkshops were a government-owned railways maintenance and repair facility located in Petone, in Lower Hutt in the Wellington region of New...
purchased. The first TR shunting locomotive built was TR1, constructed at PetoneWorkshops, New Zealand in July 1924. It was built from a standard Fordson 22 hp...
operation and also maintains rolling stock. The Hutt Workshops were preceded by a workshops at Petone, adjacent to the railway station. It operated from...
Petone railway station is a dual platform, suburban railway station located in the Lower Hutt, New Zealand suburb of Petone. It is on the Hutt Valley...
These will act as workshops for master carvers, whose carvings will be used on the path. The section of the path between Melling and Petone is 3.5 kilometres...
Timber Co. of Matapuna near Taumarunui and assembled in the NZ Railways Petoneworkshops, it was sold a few years later to Pukaweka Sawmills Limited at Mananui...
Reed. ISBN 0-589-01316-5. New Zealand Railways Steam Locomotives - Class X An X class locomotive ex-PetoneWorkshops with a new superheated boiler c1928...
initial batch comprising locomotives WW 556-575 were built at Hillside Workshops in 1913, and initially carried the WG classification before being reclassified...
Preservation) NZR PetoneWorkshops 50' wooden body, wide body mainline carriage 1909 1977 Obtained as a derelict from Hutt Workshops. Restored in 1981...
carriage built in Petoneworkshops, Wellington, in 1909. AA 1233, 50 ft (15.24 m) wide-body wooden carriage built in Petoneworkshops, Wellington, in 1912...
based at Wairio on the Wairio Branch in the former Ohai Railway Board workshops, and owned a number of locomotives and items of rolling stock, including...
farmer's field outside Wanganui. It is one of only three built at the PetoneWorkshops in 1896 and is believed to be the only one of its type to still exist...
tonnage: The following NZR workshops were builders of locomotives: Hutt Workshops, Lower Hutt, at Petone to 1929 Hillside Workshops, Dunedin, now Hillside...
from the main line between Lower Hutt and Petone. Two years later the railway workshops moved from Petone to a new larger site off the new branch at...
locomotives, and the distance of the station from the PetoneWorkshops, it was necessary to maintain a workshop on site and to have a fitter permanently based...
the line between Petone and Featherston was substantially realigned, with the line diverted to the east of the Hutt River between Petone and Haywards to...
existing workshops at Hillside and Addington in the South Island, but that the sites of the two main workshops in the North Island, at Newmarket and Petone, were...
to New Zealand in 1930, married, and resumed work at the Railways Workshops at Petone then at the Hutt as a fitter. He died in Rotorua on 25 July 1992...
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