Richmond Vale Railway, New South Wales
The Richmond Vale Railway was a Coal mining, colliery Industrial railway, railway line in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales, Australia, servicing coal mines at Minmi, New South Wales, Minmi, Stockrington, New South Wales, Stockrington, Pelaw Main, New South Wales, Pelaw Main and Richmond Main Colliery, Richmond Main. It was over long and passed through three tunnels, and was the last commercially operated railway in Australia to use steam locomotives.''Neath Mount Sugarloaf – Book 2'', West Wallsend Public School Centenary Committee, 1988, p.104-107, History The line was privately owned, by the private firm of J & A Brown and its successor companies, J & A Brown and Abermain Seaham Collieries (JABAS) and Coal & Allied. It was constructed in sections, the earliest section being from Hexham, New South Wales, Hexham to Minmi, New South Wales, Minmi, built by John Eales in 1856 to service his colliery at Minmi. At Hexham the railway crossed the then Hunter River Railway Comp ...
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