Marrawah Tramway

Marrawah Tramway
Spider locomotive before boiler refit in 1923
The Marrawah Tramway, 1951
Technical
Line length28 miles (45.1 km)[1]
Track gauge3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm)
Operating speed12 miles per hour (19 km/h)[2] max.
Maximum incline1 in 40, i.e. 2.5  %
Route map

Legend
km
0
 Smithton
Leesville
Lumming's Mill
Mella
(closed 1944)
4,8
 Produce Stop (3 Mile)
6,4
 Four Mile
Old Cuba Mill Branch
8,0
 Five Mile
Old Trowutta Mill Branch
9,7
 Six Mile
Togari Mill
(closed 1929)
11,3
 Seven Mile
14,5
 Nine Mile
16,1
 Ten Mile
Wooden Tramway
(closed 1937)
17,7
 Eleven Mile
Brittons’ Tramway
22,5
 Fourteen Mile
Lee's Tramway
(closed 1940)
 Montagu River
27,4
 Seventeen Mile (Bond Tier)
29,0
 Eighteen Mile
Bond Tier mountain
Marrawah Timber Co.
Welcome River
Salmon River Junction
Jaeger's Tramway
Redpa
37.4
 East Marawah
(23¼ Mile, closed 1939)
45.1
 Marrawah
(28 Mile, closed 1939)
 Red: steel rails, blue: wooden rails

The Marrawah Tramway was a 28 miles (45.1 km) long narrow gauge forest railway near Marrawah in Tasmania with a gauge of 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm).[1] The construction was initiated around 1911 to harvest timber in the Mowbray Swamp. The tramway was bought by the state government in October 1913 and the steel rails extended to Marrawah.[3] It was decommissioned in 1961.[4]

  1. ^ a b Marrawah Tram Line. Question of Wood Renewal. In: Advocate (Burnie, Tasmania). Thursday, 3 April 1919. Page 3
  2. ^ J.A. Lyons: The Marrawah Tramway. In: Daily Post (Hobart, Tasmania), Friday 29 August 1913. Page 7.
  3. ^ Wanderer: Railways and Tramways of the Circular Head District, Australian Railway Historical Bulletin, No. 168, October 1951, pp. 151–52.
  4. ^ Nic Haygarth: Marrawah Tramway - Getting started at Brittons Swamp. 6 November 2016. Downloaded on 17 January 2018.