Rarotonga Steam Railway

The Rarotonga Steam Railway is a short tourist railway on Rarotonga in the Cook Islands.[1]

It has one working steam locomotive; a 750mm gauge Polish 0-8-0. In Poland, it was Px48-1741.[2] It was built in 1951 by the Pierwsza Fabryka Lokomotyw w Polsce Fablok in Chrzanów, Poland with the serial number 2126.[3]

The railway is in need of repair, and as such is no longer in working condition.[4]

References
  1. "Steam in Asia (East) 2011". Archived from the original on 23 April 2012. Retrieved 14 August 2011.
  2. "Steam in the Cook Islands". Retrieved 14 August 2011.
  3. Preserved Foreign Steam Locomotives in New Zealand.
  4. "No Steam in the Cook Islands..." www.internationalsteam.co.uk. Retrieved 2019-12-12.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.