Hi Alf, The tramway was construced and worked by the local shire for many years. It was 5'3" and therefore interchanged with the VR. During this time it's timetable (as well as the Powelltown Tramway)

Bill Hanks wrote: Just wondering, was the wharf being used for river traffic, or just a convenient place to put some wagons? cheers Michael

Frank Stamford wrote: It certainly would have been novel - am I right in assuming it was the only Sentinel loco in Australia? I know that there were several railcars. cheers Nichael

Dick Holland wrote: Depending on what part of the world you are in, chairlift and gondola systems are often refered to as tramways or ropeways. Michael

Talking about aerial tramways, I remember seeing pictures of one at Jumbunna in South Gippsland, associated with coal mining. I think the pictures are on the State Library site. Michael

I'm sure that everyone is aware of 2' gauge Fowler indirect jackshaft drive locomotive in the sugar museum near Innisfail, formally in a Melbourne scrap yard. I was under the impression that that was

As they say in the classics, someone "should" get it into a museum. Cheers, Michael

Mark K wrote:

John, Others will have far more technical experience than me. I can only talk about a timber tramway that was located on a farm we used to own in the Bass Hills, behind Glen Forbes in West Gippsland.

Mike, The mill was known to locals in the late '70's when we purchaced the property. You are right about the agricultural college reserve - all the properties in the area had been held on lease for a

I remember when the Garratt was being proposed for restoration (25+ years ago) there was an article in Narrow Gauge discussing how it might affect trains. At the time one morning train had a much high

we looked What a shame about Sierra Leone, and for that matter Sri Lanka. Funny how some authorities are happy to sell stuff for scrap, but not for preservation. I understand similar problems are enco

Good news on this mornings radio reports is that with last nights rain the threat seems to have passed. Let's hope they can get the support and money to get up and running again. And yes Walhalla is a

Hi John, As one who has made a bit of a hobby out of investigating 2’6”/750mm gauge railways in particular, your question is of some interest to me. First thing to say is that 2’6” was not the unusual

Michael's orbit of the Well taken up. By the way ca we assume for the sake of discussion we are talking about 2ft/600mm and 2ft6in/750/760mm. continental becoming the narrow gauge first of Granted. Of

Hi John, The Kalka Simla line was not so much a hill line as a mountain line by our standards! 102 tunnels, 864 bridges, and 919 curves with a 1:25 ruling gradient, in about 60 miles. It is also inter

Lynn, No problem from my point of view. Although I think it went a lot deeper than our brief look at the subject. Cheers, Michael

If I remember right, there was another "rule" that the track gauge had to be more than half the standard gauge track. Which implies that the VR narrow gauge would not have been suitable for transhiper

John, Always happy to oblige. The minimum radius of the Shimla line was 45 degrees, which I understand is 123ft radius. This compares with the minimum radius on the VRNG, which was 2 chains, or 132ft.