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Carnarvon Tramway - unidentified relics
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Sam Laybutt
Hello LRRSA,
I went for a walk along the Carnarvon Tramway Trail last week and spotted some remains of what looks like an earlier timber bridge(?) on Whitlock Island, just to the west of the main bridge. See attached photograph and diagram.
I haven't been able to find any information online that would indicate what the back story might be, so hoping someone here might know. The red line on the diagram denotes a possible earlier alignment for the tramway across the mud flats.
Cheers
Sam
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John Dennis
Sam, The August 1999 ARHS Bulletin has a lengthy article on the Carnarvon Tramway. In this article it is stated: Flooding of the river had caused many problems over the years for the tramway operations. So, in 1934 when the tramway embankments were again damaged by flooding, a 34-chain deviation was built and the long culvert bridge (i.e., over Whitlock/ Oyster Creek) extended by two bays. This also resulted in two of the small culvert bridges being bypassed and thus being redundant have deteriorated so that only piles and some cross beams remain in 1995. Perhaps what you are seeing are the remnants described in the last sentence? Although I suspect that the crossing of Oyster Creek might have been more like one-third of the way across Babbage Island from the long bridge to the jetty. John
On Wed, 13 Mar 2019 at 22:30, Sam Laybutt <crazyknightsfan@...> wrote:
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Sam Laybutt
Hi John,
Thank you very much for that. I think what I found is exactly what was described - it's like that the 'long culvert bridge' refers to the main bridge over the channel.
Cheers
Sam
From: LRRSA@groups.io <LRRSA@groups.io> on behalf of John Dennis <jdennis412@...>
Sent: Thursday, 14 March 2019 10:17 AM To: LRRSA@groups.io Subject: Re: [LRRSA] Carnarvon Tramway - unidentified relics Sam,
The August 1999 ARHS Bulletin has a lengthy article on the Carnarvon Tramway. In this article it is stated:
Flooding of the river had caused many
problems over the years for the tramway
operations. So, in 1934 when the tramway
embankments were again damaged by
flooding, a 34-chain deviation was built and
the long culvert bridge (i.e., over Whitlock/
Oyster Creek) extended by two bays. This
also resulted in two of the small culvert
bridges being bypassed and thus being
redundant have deteriorated so that only
piles and some cross beams remain in 1995.
Perhaps what you are seeing are the remnants described in the last sentence? Although I suspect that the crossing of Oyster Creek might have been more like one-third of the way across Babbage Island from the long bridge to the jetty.
John
On Wed, 13 Mar 2019 at 22:30, Sam Laybutt <crazyknightsfan@...> wrote:
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