Price's Bush Tramway

Price's Bush Tramway
Bush tramway with a wooden Fell rail, Price's Bush at Akatarawa, circa 1903 Wooden rails of the bush railway in Price's Bush at Akatarawa, circa 1903
Technical
Track gauge3+1⁄2 or 4 ft
1,067 or 1,219 mm
Route map

 Price's sawmill at Akatarawa
 Incline
(Fell mountain railway)
Tracks in the bush

Price's Bush Tramway was a bush tramway built around 1903 near Akatarawa in the Tararua Range of New Zealand's North Island. It was built with a raised Fell third rail for braking the loaded trucks, as used by the Rimutaka Incline.

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