Fell Locomotive Museum, Featherston

1875 Fell locomotive No. H199 made by the Avonside Engine Co

This shows the central rail, against which the horizontal driving wheels are pressed. Note that the chain drive has been added for demonstration purposes

Even the buffer beam has an interesting history, originally being part of the SS Port Bowen!

Interior of brake van.

FELL LOCOMOTIVE MUSEUM, Corner State Highway 2 and Lyon Street, P.O. Box 71, Featherston 5740, NEW ZEALAND

A small museum with a fascinating display of equipment and information on the Rimutaka Incline, which used the Fell System - a third-rail system for railways that were too steep to be worked by adhesion on the two running rails alone, invented by John Barraclough Fell.

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