RETURN OF THE LITTLE SCOTSMAN
A little Scottish steam locomotive called ‘Donald’ is back on track 90 years after being left for dead in a South Island bog.
The steam engine’s restoration by Blenheim Riverside Railway Society volunteers makes it the only operational two-foot-gauge steam locomotive from the last century in the country.
Brought out from Glasgow in 1901, Donald spent three decades working in the Puponga Coal Mine at the top of the South Island, near Collingwood. When his working days were over, he was pushed out the back of a
