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The Waihi-Waikino Gold Tramway (also known locally as The Rake) was a narrow-gauge railway which ran between gold mines at Waihi and the Victoria Battery at Waikino. Owned by the Waihi Gold Mining Company, it operated from 1897 to 1952. [1] It was the only private railway in New Zealand used by the gold industry. [2]
A Siemens and Haske pure storage battery locomotive was in use in a coal mine in Gelsenkirchen (Germany) by 1904. [70] One problem with battery locomotives was battery replacement. This was simplified by use of removable battery boxes. Eventually, battery boxes were developed that included wheels so that they could be rolled off of the ...
Postcard of the original Bailey Level Gold Mine Wingrove & Rogers WR8 battery-electric locomotive propelling tipper wagons into the mine. Bailey Level is a former gold mine and iron mine in the Forest of Dean, England. The mine and surface features are currently managed by volunteer members of Lea Bailey Light Railway Society. The gold mine was ...
Pikrose were a long established firm founded by Austin Hopkinson in the 1900s making equipment for the mining industry at their Delta works in Audenshaw, Manchester, and they continued the manufacture of the battery electric locomotives with surviving examples known from 1992 and 1993 - one is preserved at the Apedale Valley Light Railway. In ...
The company's main products are locomotives for shunting, mainline railways, tunnelling, and underground mining. Power sources include battery-electric, battery hybrid and diesel. It also provides a special design and build service; tunnel drilling machines, cable handlers, overhauling or upgrading existing equipment, converting from old diesel ...
Fluorite mine using battery-electric locomotives Weardale Fluorspar Ltd. Frasers Grove Mine [51] after 1989 2 ft (610 mm) County Durham, England Fluorspar mine with at least 15 battery electric locomotives on site in 1989 Wheal Jane Ltd. Clemo's Shaft [7] 1965 1992 2 ft (610 mm) Baldhu, England Locomotive-worked Cornish tin mine.
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In 1936, production commenced. Battery-powered locomotives hauled ore cars along a 46-centimetre (18 in) narrow gauge track from the mine to the storage hoppers. Loaded from the hoppers, the descending tramway buckets powered the cable. The empty ascending tramway buckets carried supplies, and employees at the shift change.