The Gear Meat Company's first locomotive, Petone

The Gear Meat Company operated a short spur along Petone's foreshore until the early 1980s (see our books mentioned in previous posts for details).  Here is a general view of Petone early 1900s, with a Wd on a (NZR) livestock train in the foreground, a blow up detail of the beach and a portrait of the company's first steam locomotive, an ex-NZR A class 0-4-0, written off in 1905.