Grubb's Tramway (Mowbray)
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Grubb's Tramway was a partially completed, narrow-gauge , private forest railway on the Australian island of Tasmania , which led from the Launceston - George Town road on the Tamar River near Mowbray to a sawmill on the Pipers River .
history
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The forest railway was built by William Dawson Grubb (1817-1879). Originally from London , he worked as a lawyer, politician and entrepreneur. In March 1832 he emigrated to Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania), where he and William Tyson built a sawmill on the Pipers River.
In August 1855, James Scott measured the route for the construction of the forest railway. A decree of 1855 allowed the construction of the forest railway, but before the line was completed the price of timber dropped so drastically that the project could not have been successfully completed. Similar investments by Grubbs were equally unsuccessful, and it was said that he had invested over £ 50,000 in vain in logging, gold prospecting, coal mining and the railroad. However, its New Native Youth and Tasmania gold mines have been profitable and appear to have largely offset losses in other areas. The Tasmania gold mine paid dividends of over £ 700,000 through 1900.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c M. J. Saclier: Grubb, William Dawson (1817–1879) , Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Center of Biography, Australian National University, first published in hard copy in 1972, accessed online January 16, 2018.
- ^ Railway or tramway to be constructed by William Dawson Grubb and William Tyson, Surveyor James Scott. Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office: AF398-1-136.
Coordinates: 41 ° 19 ′ 4.1 ″ S , 147 ° 13 ′ 18.5 ″ E