Tramlines

Tramlines Gallery

This gallery, about the tramlines used to transport logs and sawn timber from the State's forests, has been put together with a considerable amount of assistance from Colin Harvey, who has used his expertise to help properly identify the image content.

Photograph taken in 1898 (Source : FCRPA) : Wandong Railway Station.

Photograph taken in 1898 (Source : FCRPA) : Best (Sunday Creek) bridge, Australian Seasoned Timber Co. Mt Disappointment.

Photograph taken in 1898 (Source : FCRPA) : Baldwin locomotive on Australian Seasoned Timber Co. tramline, Mt Disappointment. Probably Devils Elbow Creek (now Harpers Creek)

Photograph taken in 1898 (Source : FCRPA) : Australian Seasoned Timber Company; Comet Mill and Bump Incline; Mt Disappointment

Photograph taken in 1898 (Source: FCRPA) : Australian Seasoned Timber Company; Perrin (White Elephant) Bridge; Mt Disappointment

Photograph taken in 1898 (Source: FCRPA) : Australian Seasoned Timber Company; Mt Disappointment

Photograph taken in 1898 (Source: FCRPA) : Australian Seasoned Timber Company; Comet Mill; Mt Disappointment

Photograph taken in 1898 (Source: FCRPA) : Extending tramway; Mt Disappointment

Photograph taken in 1898 (Source: FCRPA) : Wandong Station

Photograph taken in 1898 (Source: FCRPA) : Australian Seasoned Timber Company; Wandong

Photograph taken in 1898 (Source: EG Stuckey) : Australian Seasoned Timber Company; Baldwin locomotive; Mt Disappointment

Photograph taken in 1898 (Source: EG Stuckey) : Australian Seasoned Timber Company; Loading logs onto train hauled by Baldwin locomotive; Mt Disappointment [Possibly Engine Camp]

Photograph taken in 1898 (Source: EG Stuckey) : Australian Seasoned Timber Company; Baldwin locomotive; Mt Disappointment

Photograph taken in 1898 (Source: EG Stuckey) : Australian Seasoned Timber Company; Loading logs onto train hauled by Baldwin locomotive; Mt Disappointment

Photograph taken in 1898 (Source: EG Stuckey) : Australian Seasoned Timber Company; Planet Mill; Mt Disappointment

Photograph taken in 1898 (Source: EG Stuckey) : Australian Seasoned Timber Company; Loading logs onto train hauled by Baldwin locomotive; Mt Disappointment

Photograph taken in 1898 (Source: EG Stuckey) : Australian Seasoned Timber Company; Train hauled by Baldwin locomotive crossing Craig Bridge (now Harpers Creek); Mt Disappointment

Photograph taken by the Australian Seasoned Timber Company, Wandong in 1898. Description from Tall Timber and Tramlines, LRRSA, 1974 (Source: FCRPA) : Loads of timber descending by gravity towards Wandong cross the Westcott Creek Bridge

Photograph taken by the Australian Seasoned Timber Company, Wandong in 1898. (Source: FCRPA) : Viaduct - on The Bump Haulage Incline

Photograph taken by the Australian Seasoned Timber Company, Wandong in 1898. (Source: FCRPA) : Locomotive and Log Train crossing Craig Bridge

Photograph taken by the Australian Seasoned Timber Company, Wandong in 1898. Description from Tall Timber and Tramlines, LRRSA, 1974 (Source: FCRPA) : Making up a train at a log landing, near Comet Mill

Photograph taken by the Australian Seasoned Timber Company, Wandong in 1898. Description from Tall Timber and Tramlines, LRRSA, 1974 (Source: FCRPA) : Truck heading up the incline on the Wandong side of The Bump Mill

Photograph taken in about 1898 by the Australian Seasoned Timber Company at Wandong (Source: FCRPA) : The Company's Tramline - Perrin Bridge (also known as the White Elephant Bridge)

Photograph taken in about 1898 by the Australian Seasoned Timber Company at Wandong (Source: FCRPA) : The Company's Tramline - Best Bridge (named after the Minister of Lands, RW Best)

Photograph taken in the late 1800's to early 1900s (Source: FCRPA) : Incline to Elliott River mill, Apollo Bay. 1886-1911 (Ref - Sawdust and Steam, pp185-191)

Photograph taken about 1900 (Source: FCRPA) : Long Tunnel Mining Company; firewood tramway bridge over Thomson River at Poverty Point. (Ref - Firewood Tramways of the Walhalla Mines, p46)

Photograph assumed to be taken around the late 1890's to early 1900's near Forrest. Description from Tall Timbers and Tramlines, LRRSA,1974 (Source: FCRPA) : 0-4-0 well tank locomotive No. 7 at work on Henry's tramway, south of his No. 1 Mill

Photograph assumed to be taken around the late 1890's to early 1900's near Millgrove. Description from Tall Timbers and Tramlines, LRRSA,1974 (Source: FCRPA) : The cable haulage incline on Currie's tramway, which carried logs from Ben Cairn on the Mount Donna Buang range down to a sawmill at Millgrove

Photograph taken in 1907 (Source: EG Stuckey) : Transferring timber at Millgrove Railway Station; (Ref - Mountains of Ash, p31)

Photograph taken about 1910 (Source: FCRPA). Description from Tall Timber and Tramlines, LRRSA, 1974 : Beyer Peacock 0-4-0 locomotive on JH Henry's 3ft6in gauge tramway near his Barwon Mill, south of Forrest.

Photograph taken in 1917 (Source : EG Stuckey) : Victorian Hardwood Milling and Seasoning Co. No.3 logging winch. East end of Bump Incline. (Arsenic and Molasses p48)

Photograph taken in 1917 (Source: EG Stuckey) : West side of Bump Incline; Powelltown. (Ref - Arsenic and Molasses, p37)

Photograph taken in 1918, probably near Erica (Source: FCRPA) : Logs heading to Knott's Mill

Photograph taken about 1919 (Source: FCRPA) : Noojee railway construction

Photograph taken on 30/04/1919 (Source: FCRPA) : First Train to Noojee

Photograph of the Coffee Pot probably around 1920 (Kerr Stuart No. 643) on the big bridge east of Powelltown (see Arsenic and Molasses p35) : Logs heading to the sawmill

Photograph taken in 1921 (Source: EG Stuckey) : Baldwin locomotive (ex-Sorrento tramway) on Loch Valley Tramway; Noojee

Photograph taken about 1923 (Source: FCRPA) : Baldwin locomotive on Loch Valley tramway; Noojee. (Ref - Light Railways, No.212)

Photograph taken about 1923 (Source: FCRPA) : Baldwin locomotive on Loch Valley tramway; Noojee (Ref - Tall Timber and Tramlines, p49)

Photograph taken in 1924 (Source: EG Stewart) : High Lead Incline near Ada Mill

Photograph taken in the mid 1920's (Source : FCRPA) : Loch Valley tramway, Noojee.

Photograph taken in 1925 (Source: FCRPA) : High Lead Incline, Powelltown Bush

Photograph taken in 1925 (Source: EG Stuckey) : Victorian Hardwood Company; Kerr Stuart locomotive; Powelltown??

Photograph taken in December 1925 (Source: EG Stuckey) : High Lead Incline, near Powelltown

Photograph taken in 1927 (Source: EG Stewart) : Ada No.2 mill (formerly No.3) 1927 (Ref - Powelltown, p94)

Photograph taken in November 1927 (Source : FCRPA) : Harman locomotive for Tyers Valley tramway, being delivered from manufacturer in Port Melbourne. (Light Railways No.42)

Photograph taken in 1928 (Source: EG Stuckey) : Tyers Valley Tramway; Harman locomotive near Collins Siding

Photograph taken in 1928 (Source: EG Stuckey) : Federal Tramway, Big Pats Creek

Photograph taken in 1928 (Source: EG Stuckey) : Federal Tramway; Big Pats Creek (Reference: Mountains of Ash. p222)

Photograph assumed to be taken in 1928 - at the VR Workshops, Newport (Source: EG Stuckey) : FCV-owned Climax Locomotive - Builders Number 1694

Photograph taken in 1932 (Source: FCRPA) : Foot of the High Lead incline; near Powelltown (Ref - Powelltown Tramway Centenary, p27)

Photograph taken in 1932 (Source: FCRPA) : Victorian Hardwood Company; Powelltown; Baldwin locomotive

Photograph taken in 1932 (Source: EG Stuckey) : Russell's Tramway near Gembrook; Day geared locomotive

Photograph taken about 1938 (Source: FCRPA) : Shay locomotive near Powelltown - l to r - WM Flentje, KN Simmonds, KR O'Kane, CRG Fleming

Photograph taken in 1939 (Source: R Brash) : Hermon near Warbuton

Photograph taken about 1940 (Source: FCRPA) : Building tramway near Tanjil Bren

Photograph taken about 1940 (Source: FCRPA) : FCV Climax locomotive at Collins Siding

Photograph taken about 1940 (Source: S Cowling) : FCV Climax locomotive at Collins Siding

Photograph taken in the early 1940s (Source: R Brash) : Thomson Valley Tramway (Ref - Tall Timbers and Tramlines, p53)

Photograph taken in January 1942 (Source: G Cleary) : FCV Little Boys Camp, Upper Thomson

Photograph taken in January 1942 (Source: G Cleary) : Ingram's Mill in the West Tyers, near Erica

Photograph taken in January 1942 (Source: G Cleary) : l to r - VP Cleary and EL Ellwood. The trolley driver is unknown. Salvage program in the Upper Thomson.

Photograph taken in January 1942 (Source: G Cleary) : l to r - EL Ellwood, the locomotive driver's girlfriend, and VP Cleary - FCV Little Boys Camp - salvage program in the Upper Thomson

Photograph taken in October 1942. Description from Tall Timbers and Tramways, LRRSA, 1974 (Source: FCRPA) : Logs descending the Thomson Valley Tramway

Photograph probably taken in 1948, at Collins Siding near Erica (Source: FCRPA) : FCV-owned Climax Locomotive - Builders Number 1694. l to r - H Whitehead, Unknown

Photograph probably taken in 1948 at Tyers Junction near Erica (Source: FCRPA) : FCV-owned Climax Locomotive - Builders Number 1694

Photograph probably taken in 1948 at Tyers Junction near Erica (Source: FCRPA) : FCV-owned Climax Locomotive - Builders Number 1694. Leaving Tyers Junction on the last trip. l to r - F Cronin, AW Maxwell, H Whitehead, J Vennell, Unknown

Photograph taken in 1956 (Source: EG Stuckey) : Powelltown Tramway; standard 4-wheel timber truck

Photograph taken in 1956 (Source: EG Stuckey) : 6-wheel Malcom Moore Tractor at Powelltown mill.

Photograph taken in April 1968 (Source: EG Stuckey) : Boiler and winch near Starlings Gap

Photograph taken by the Australian Seasoned Timber Company, Wandong in 1898. Description from Tall Timber and Tramlines, LRSSA, 1974 (Source: FCRPA) : Truck being lowered down the incline on the Wandong side of The Bump Mill

Photograph probably from about 1946 (Source: N Endacott) : Ezard's loco on the South Cascade bridge

Photograph probably from about 1946 (Source: N Endacott) : Timber from Alstergren's Mill in the Upper Thomson on the South Cascade Bridge

Photograph taken in about 1946 (Source: N Endacott) : South Cascade Bridge

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