Coffs Harbor Timber Company

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Coffs Harbor Timber Company
Bright and Lively oxen reloading eucalyptus trunks onto the Coffs Harbor Timber Co. tramway.
The oxen Bright and Lively reloading eucalyptus -
stems on the Tramway of Coffs Harbor Timber Co.
Line of the Coffs Harbor Timber Company
Former route on a modern map
Gauge : 1067 mm ( cape track )

The Coffs Harbor Timber Company (CHT) operated two sawmills and two forest railways with a gauge of 3 feet 6 inches (1067 mm) south of Coffs Harbor in the Australian state of New South Wales .

history

The Coffs Harbor Timber Company was headquartered on Castlereagh Street in Sydney. CW Elliot and AC Mackay were its managing directors. They had hoped to move their timber from Maharratta (Bonville) and Nondaville (Boambee) to the port of Coffs Harbor, but there were unforeseen delays in obtaining rails for Section 7 from Raleigh to Coffs Harbor in 1913.

In March 1915, the Coffs Harbor Timber Company (CHT) acquired the British Australian Tramway's decommissioned rail vehicles, a stationary steam engine and its rails with a total length of 13 kilometers (8 miles). Their Bonville Mill opened in 1912 and their Boambee Mill in 1913. Both sawmills and their associated forest railways were valued at 50 to 60 thousand pounds. On March 1, 1918, it was announced that the Boambee Mill would be closed. It was closed in February 1919 and the CHT was liquidated in 1931, which also resulted in the closure of the Bonville Mill.

Locomotives

Manufacturer Factory no. Construction year image Wheel alignment Remarks
Andrew Barclay Sons & Co. B / No. 237 1881 Ex-Joadja 0-4-0ST Andrew Barclay works No 237 of 1881 on the Boambee Tramway with extra water tank on top of tsaddle-tank and CHT Co's self-made tender, before 1917 (J Kramer collection) .png 0-4-0ST Small saddle tank locomotive
Lima Locomotive Works Lima 2135 from 1909 1909 A-class Shay locomotive (Lima 2135 of 1909) of British Australian Timber Company (Ted Downs Collection, ARHSnsw Railway Resource Center 022828) .png Shay A class Weight: 25 or 27 t. Formerly British Australian Tramway (Coffs Harbor)

further reading

Web links

Commons : Coffs Harbor Timber Company  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Scott Schache: Banana Coast Railway: Rails of the Coffs Coast A Century Plus of service 1906-2015.
  2. ^ Ian McNeal: The British Australian Timber Company Tramway, Coffs Harbor, NSW. (LR 86) In: Light Railways 231 , June 2013, pp. 28–29.