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Oamaru locomotive dump
Oamaru locomotive dump was created in New Zealand so that obsolete locomotives and rolling stock could be used to stabilize loose ground where rivers and the coast were eroding the ground where the railway lines were built. This was done at a time when scrap steel was an uneconomic proposition. It was located on the coastline in the North Otago town of Oamaru to stabilise land used by New Zealand Railways for their freight yards. Here the coastline of the Pacific Ocean pounded heavily against the land causing major erosion.
==Oamaru locomotive dumpsite==
By 1930, New Zealand Railways was facing issues with erosion of the Oamaru railway yard by breakers from the Pacific Ocean. Despite the construction of a mole to make the Oamaru harbour more suitable for shipping, this provided no protection for the railway land. As NZR had withdrawn a number of obsolete steam locomotives and scrap prices were low, the decision was made to dump some of these locomotives at Oamaru as erosion control.
The dumpsite was well known to railway enthusiasts, who would visit the site at low tide to view the remains of the locomotives. In 2002, enthusiast Tony Bachelor salvaged the remains of Brooks UB 17 and 1898-built Baldwin UB 282 for his Hooterville Charitable Steam Trust. Due to Hooterville's closure in 2005, the locomotives have since languished on the site of the old Waitara railway yards and are visible from Johnstone Street, Waitara. Bachelor also videod the remains as part of his search for a suitable locomotive to salvage and restore.
In 2009 the dumpsite was threatened again by the sea, and the locomotive remains were salvaged and handed over to the Oamaru Steam and Rail Restoration Society for safekeeping. By this time, large boulders and blocks of concrete had been added to the dumpsite previously but this had not been successful. In part due to the vicious undertow, five Canterbury J class 2-6-0 tender engines and a pair of NZR F class 0-6-0ST saddle tank locomotives which had previously been dumped here were sucked out into the harbour and are believed to have been either destroyed or buried.
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