The Dunedin 6-year-old thought, strangely, it tasted a lot like candyfloss.
While Josephine was relatively stoic about the milestone, everybody else was in a celebratory mood, enjoying fun activities such as live music, games, and a Josephine-themed I-spy gallery trail.
A visual showcase 50 Years of Steam was dedicated to Dunedin’s rail history, with imagery highlighting the opening of the Dunedin Railway Station and some of the locomotives that ran on Otago lines.
The double Fairlie (double ended) locomotive first operated on the Dunedin-Port Chalmers Railway in 1872. After 45 years of use around the country, she was sent to be scrapped but was saved and has been on display at the museum since the late 1920s.
The restored Josephine was moved indoors in the late 1960s, and is one of only a handful of surviving double Fairlies left in the world.
