2 ft gauge railways in Australia

A list of 2 ft (610 mm) narrow-gauge railways in Australia.

Installations edit

State/territory	Railway
New South Wales	Bulahdelah Logging Railway^[1] (operational status unknown) Goondah-Burrinjuck Railway (defunct) Cataract Dam construction railway; 8.8 km (5.5 mi), (defunct) Illawarra Light Railway Museum (separate 7+1⁄4 in (184 mm) gauge railway also present) (operating) Kiama Harbour-Pikes Hill Quarry^[2] (defunct) Marsden Weir Steam Museum^[1] (defunct) Megalong Valley Tourist Railway^[1] (defunct) Melaleuca Station, Chinderah^[1] (defunct) Menangle Narrow Gauge Railway^[1] (operating) Newington Armaments Depot (defunct) Timbertown Heritage Railway (located in Timbertown) (operating) Pete's Hobby Railway (located in Junee) (Private 2 ft gauge railway that is operating. Public admittance is not allowed under the Rail Safety National Law (NSW), No. 82a of 2012)
Queensland	Australian Sugar Cane Railway^[3] (located in Bundaberg Botanic Gardens) (operating) Ballyhooley Steam Railway (operating) Dreamworld Express (located in Dreamworld) (operating) Durundur Railway^[1] (operating) Geraldton Shire Tramway^[4] (taken over by the Innisfail and Mourilyan Tramway) Innisfail and Mourilyan Tramway^[4] (owned by Queensland Rail) (parts operating as a sugar cane tramway) Irvinebank Tramway^[4] (parts operating as a sugar cane tramway) Mapleton Tramway^[4] (parts operating as a sugar cane tramway) Mount Molloy mine and smelter^[5] Mourilyan Harbour Tramway^[4] (taken over by the Innisfail and Mourilyan Tramway) Queensland sugar tramways (operating) Stannary Hills Tramway^[4] (taken over by the Innisfail and Mourilyan Tramway) Woodford Railway^[6] (operating)
South Australia	Cobdogla Irrigation Museum^[7] (operating)
Tasmania	Comstock Tramway, Mount Lyell^[8] (defunct) Comstock Tramway, Zeehan^[4] (defunct) Hercules Haulage (defunct) Ida Bay Railway (operating) Lake Margaret Tram (defunct) Magnet Tramway^[4] (defunct) Mount Lyell Quarry Railway^[9] (defunct) Mount Lyell Underground Railway^[10] (defunct) National Portland Cement Limited, Darlington, Maria Island^[11] (defunct) North East Dundas Tramway (defunct) Redwater Creek Steam and Heritage Society^[1] (operating) Sandfly Colliery Tramway (defunct) Wee Georgie Wood Railway (formerly known as the Mount Farrell Tramway)^[4] (operating) Zeehan & North East Dundas^[4] (defunct)
Victoria	Alexandra Timber Tramway^[1] (operating) Cheetham Salt Works^[12] (defunct) Coal Creek Bush Tramway^[1] (operating) Kerrisdale Mountain Railway^[1] (operating) Melbourne Benevolent Asylum (defunct) Red Cliffs Historical Steam Railway^[1] (operating) Rubicon Lumber and Tramway Company^[13] (defunct)
Western Australia	Bennett Brook Railway (operating) Roebourne and Cossack tramway^[14] (defunct)

References edit

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k "Steam in Australia, 2013". Archived from the original on 23 February 2014. Retrieved 16 February 2014.
^ McCarthy, Ken (1982). "Tramways of the Illawarra" (PDF). Trolley Wire. Vol. 23, no. 4. pp. 3, 4, 5.
^ "Australian Sugar Cane Railway - official website". Archived from the original on 9 March 2014. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j World Wide Listing of Two foot, 1' 11 1/2", 600 mm (60cm) & 610mm Railroads (from archive.org) - Australia
^ "JM Johnston's Sawmill (former) Steam Plant (entry 602776)". Queensland Heritage Register. Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
^ "Woodford Railway - official website". Archived from the original on 5 March 2014. Retrieved 21 February 2014.
^ "Cobdogla Irrigation Museum". Archived from the original on 22 February 2014. Retrieved 16 February 2014.
^ "LYELL". Zeehan and Dundas Herald (Hobart, Tas. : 1890 - 1922). Hobart, Tas.: National Library of Australia. 22 November 1918. p. 4. Retrieved 28 June 2012.
^ Mainwaring, Ross; Light Railway Research Society of Australia, (issuing body.) (2020), Beneath the peak of Lyell : the Mount Lyell mines and their 2 ft gauge tramways, Light Railway Research Society of Australia, ISBN 978-0-909340-55-1
^ Mainwaring, Ross; Light Railway Research Society of Australia, (issuing body.) (2020), Beneath the peak of Lyell : the Mount Lyell mines and their 2 ft gauge tramways, Light Railway Research Society of Australia, ISBN 978-0-909340-55-1
^ Australian Railway Atlas No.1 - Tasmania. Exeter, UK: The Quail Map Company. June 2004. pp. Map 12 & page 26. ISBN 1-898319-69-3.
^ "Alexandra Timber Tramway - Day's Tractor ex Cheetham Salt". Archived from the original on 1 March 2014. Retrieved 16 February 2014.
^ "Alexandra Timber Tramway - Historical background". Archived from the original on 22 February 2014. Retrieved 16 February 2014.
^ "Roebourne and Cossack tramway". 15 August 2012. Archived from the original on 22 February 2014. Retrieved 16 February 2014.

External links edit

Queensland sugar cane railways today

[AUS-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k "Steam in Australia, 2013". Archived from the original on 23 February 2014. Retrieved 16 February 2014.

[2] McCarthy, Ken (1982). "Tramways of the Illawarra" (PDF). Trolley Wire. Vol. 23, no. 4. pp. 3, 4, 5.

[3] "Australian Sugar Cane Railway - official website". Archived from the original on 9 March 2014. Retrieved 19 February 2014.

[ww2ft-4] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j World Wide Listing of Two foot, 1' 11 1/2", 600 mm (60cm) & 610mm Railroads (from archive.org) - Australia

[qhr-5] "JM Johnston's Sawmill (former) Steam Plant (entry 602776)". Queensland Heritage Register. Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved 1 August 2014.

[6] "Woodford Railway - official website". Archived from the original on 5 March 2014. Retrieved 21 February 2014.

[7] "Cobdogla Irrigation Museum". Archived from the original on 22 February 2014. Retrieved 16 February 2014.

[8] "LYELL". Zeehan and Dundas Herald (Hobart, Tas. : 1890 - 1922). Hobart, Tas.: National Library of Australia. 22 November 1918. p. 4. Retrieved 28 June 2012.

[9] Mainwaring, Ross; Light Railway Research Society of Australia, (issuing body.) (2020), Beneath the peak of Lyell : the Mount Lyell mines and their 2 ft gauge tramways, Light Railway Research Society of Australia, ISBN 978-0-909340-55-1

[10] Mainwaring, Ross; Light Railway Research Society of Australia, (issuing body.) (2020), Beneath the peak of Lyell : the Mount Lyell mines and their 2 ft gauge tramways, Light Railway Research Society of Australia, ISBN 978-0-909340-55-1

[11] Australian Railway Atlas No.1 - Tasmania. Exeter, UK: The Quail Map Company. June 2004. pp. Map 12 & page 26. ISBN 1-898319-69-3.

[12] "Alexandra Timber Tramway - Day's Tractor ex Cheetham Salt". Archived from the original on 1 March 2014. Retrieved 16 February 2014.

[13] "Alexandra Timber Tramway - Historical background". Archived from the original on 22 February 2014. Retrieved 16 February 2014.

[14] "Roebourne and Cossack tramway". 15 August 2012. Archived from the original on 22 February 2014. Retrieved 16 February 2014.

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