The Munro Tramway was a private
tramway established in the late 1890s and early 1900s to cart timber and other freight
from
Perseverance and
Ravensbourne to
Hampton
Hampton may refer to:
Places Australia
*Hampton bioregion, an IBRA biogeographic region in Western Australia
*Hampton, New South Wales
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*Hampton, Victoria
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*Hampton, New Brunswick
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in
Queensland
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, Australia.
The tramway was originally serviced by teams of horses until the early 1900s when the first of two
Shay locomotive
The Shay locomotive is a geared steam locomotive that originated and was primarily used in North America. The locomotives were built to the patents of Ephraim Shay, who has been credited with the popularization of the concept of a ''geared st ...
s began servicing the line.
This was the first tramway in Queensland to use a steam locomotive to haul timber and continued to operate until 1936.
The tramway was constructed in three stages. The first section connected Munro's Sawmill in
Palmtree to a siding at the Hampton station on the
Crows Nest railway line
Crows Nest Branch Railway was originally surveyed as a direct line from Toowoomba north to Crows Nest in Queensland, Australia. The branch eventually took a more circuitous route to cover the maximum amount of farming country. The first stage s ...
. The second section extended the line east. The final stage brought the line up through Ravensbourne to a loading station
at Bunkers Hill.
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Since being decommissioned, most of the steel has been scrapped and little remains of the tramway.
In some sections splice plates and dog spikes can still be found.
The final section is traced by ]Esk–Hampton Road
The Esk–Hampton Road is a state highway in Queensland. It leaves the Brisbane Valley Highway at Esk and travels in a westerly direction for until it reaches the New England Highway at Hampton, where it ends. This road is part of State Route ...
.
See also
* Rail transport in Queensland
The rail network in Queensland, Australia, was the first in the world to adopt narrow gauge for a main line, and now the second largest narrow gauge network in the world, consists of:
*the North Coast Line (NCL) extending from Brisbane to R ...
* List of tramways in Queensland
List of tramways in Queensland provides three separate lists, each in alphabetical order of the key identifier. They are:
* Non sugar cane tramways, ordered by Tramway Name as contained in Wikipedia articles.
* Sugar cane tramways, ordered by Sug ...
References
Closed railway lines in Queensland
Railway lines opened in 1896
Railway lines closed in 1936
Darling Downs
1896 establishments in Australia
1936 disestablishments in Australia
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