Eo 3 & Ec 7 operating at Ferrymead (HD)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.ย. 2024
- Electric class locomotives Eo 3 & Ec 7 shared the running duties during Queens Birthday weekend 2014 at the Canterbury Railway Society known as the Ferrymead Railway. Eo 3 was one of 5 Eo class locomotives which worked trains up the steep 1 in 33 grade through the Otira tunnel between Otira and Arthur's Pass between 1923 and 1968 and is the only one of its kind left today. Ec 7 worked trains between Christchurch and the port of Lyttelton between 1928 and 1970 and like Eo 3 it is the only one of its class left. Sit back and enjoy these locomotives running up and down the Ferrymead branch during some excellent weather.
I love these 1920s electric locos. Liked and favourited!
Takes me back to my young teens travelling on EC7 between Christchurch and Lyttelton. Sigh....
Great footage, and look at that sunshine! You get better weather in the middle of winter than we do in summer.
love the coaches
they remind me of the same coaches used on Hong Kong's KCR (now MTR East Rail Surface Line) between 1910 and 1950
Is this possibly the only rail museum in the world capable of operating full size electric road engines, or am I wrong? Nice video!!
Nice
oh really. i ve seen a youtube channel called mathew bell hills. does this mean he has 2 youtube accounts. the nzrail is that luke kid right?
So whatever happened to the other 4 EO's? I'm sure all of them were preserved after their duties at Otira, then transferred to Wellington a few years back, which didn't really work so well...What happened to them after that?
Other EOs, this one (Eo 3) is one of the first batch (1923 from memory), while the later ones (1968), known s the Ea and later EO class, were stored at Ferrymead for a time prior to three being used on the wellington network, all but one of them have since been scrapped
Hey, is this shot with the CX220? :-)
Bobby do you know who trainboy 1260 is?
Matthew Bell-Hills
English Electric Green cabs....