Hillside Engineering

Hillside Engineering

Hillside Engineering Group is a trading division of the rail operator KiwiRail (formerly Toll NZ) in Dunedin, New Zealand. Most of its work is related to KiwiRail, but it also does work for the marine industry in Dunedin.

History

Hillside was founded as the Hillside Workshops of the New Zealand Railways Department in 1901, though workshops had existed close to the current site in South Dunedin since 1875. The workshops were extensively enlarged in the late 1920s, and by 1935 employed 800 workers, compared with 365 workers in 1925. At that stage they were the largest railway workshops in the South Island, covering 16 acres. By 1945 staff numbers had been reduced to 550 workers.

The workshops, located in Hillside Road, are still one of South Dunedin's biggest employers and most imposing structures. One of the ends of the nearby sportsground Carisbrook is known as "The Hillside End" or "The Workshops End" due to the presence of the stadium's larger neighbour.

Locomotives classes built at Hillside

Many locomotive classes were built at Hillside:

* DSC
* C (1930) (12)
* JA (35)
* KB (6)
* L
* WA (6)
* WAB (20)
* WF (16)
* WG (20)
* WW (48)
* TR (9) (1973-78, Diesel shunters)

Hillside also rebuilt the following locomotive classes:
* DG (10)
* G (1928) (6)
* WE (3)
* X (1)

ee also

*Addington Workshops Christchurch
*Hutt Workshops Lower Hutt/Wellington
*Newmarket Workshops Auckland then Otahuhu Workshops Auckland
*New Zealand Railways Department

External links

* [http://www.hillsidenz.com/ Hillside Engineering]
* [http://www.tollnz.co.nz/ Toll NZ]
* [http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/Gov02_05Rail-fig-Gov02_05Rail034a.html Photo of Spot Welder at Hillside Workshops c1927]


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