Laheys Tramway

Laheys tramway
History
Opened1900
Closed1933
Technical
Line length16.5 miles (26.6 kilometres)
Track gauge3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm)
Route map

Legend
km
Canungra railway line
opened
1914
0½
 Canungra
Lahey's Sawmill
at Canungra
 Lahey's Tramway Tunnel
opened
1905
5½
 Witheren Siding
10½
 Ferny Glen Junction
Little Flying Fox Junction
0.5 mi
0.8 km
 Flying Fox Creek branch
4 mi
6 km
12½
 Prices Creek Junction
Prices Creek branch
2 mi
3 km
26½
 End of main line[1]
This diagram:
View of the locomotive approaching the tunnel on the Canungra Sawmill tramway.
Water tanks for the steam locomotive, Canungra.
Canungra Pine Creek Tramway in dense timber region ~ 1914.
Shay Locomotive 5, part of the Canungra Pine Creek Tramway, ca. 1914. Two cylinder Shay locomotive on low level bridge, part of the Canungra Pine Creek Tramway.
Laheys sawmill ~1913

Laheys Tramway or Canungra Pine Creek Tramway was a private timber railway in South East Queensland, Australia. It connected at Canungra on the Canungra line and consisted of a 16+1⁄2 miles (26+1⁄2 km) 'main line' to Upper Coomera and two branches.[2] Its tunnel was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 11 April 2005.[3]

  1. ^ Kerr, John. Tall Timber and Tramlines Queensland. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
  2. ^ Morgan, R.K. (1975). "Laheys Canungra Tramway". Light Railways Magazine.
  3. ^ "Lahey's Canungra Tramway Tunnel (entry 602529)". Queensland Heritage Register. Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved 8 November 2018.