It was built with a raised Fell third rail for braking the loaded trucks, as used by the Rimutaka Incline.

Price's Bush was an area owned and milled by Thomas Price (1838–1906), who owned milling operations in Lower Hutt and Petone.

[1] It lay in the upper reaches of the Hutt Valley to Waikanae on the Kāpiti Coast in a rugged hill country.

[2] The tramway had wooden rails with a track gauge of 3+1⁄2 or 4 feet (1,067 or 1,219 mm) equal to that of the main line or Wellington tram respectively.

This was used for braking the loaden trucks downhill, as known from the Fell mountain railway system on the Rimutaka Incline.