Hillside Engineering

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

The Hillside Workshops stretch for over 500 metres along Hillside Road, South Dunedin.

1 History
2 Locomotives classes built at Hillside
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] History

Hillside was founded as the Hillside Workshops of the New Zealand Railways Department in 1901 - workshops had existed in Dunedin since the 1870s. 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.