Homebush (Queensland)

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Homebush
StateLibQld 1 236805 Homebush Sugar Mill, Mackay, ca.1895 (cropped) .jpg
Homebush Sugar Mill, around 1895
State : AustraliaAustralia Australia
State : Flag of Queensland.svg Queensland
Coordinates : 21 ° 16 ′  S , 149 ° 3 ′  E Coordinates: 21 ° 16 ′  S , 149 ° 3 ′  E
Residents : 277 (2011 Census QuickStats)
Time zone : AEST (UTC + 10)
LGA : Mackay Regional Council
Homebush (Queensland)
Homebush
Homebush
Homebush Mill, around 1883

Homebush is a settlement in the Australian state of Queensland .

history

The name Homebush is derived from the name of a farm that was operated by John Walker around 1866. The Homebush Post Office opened on December 5, 1883, and closed on December 31, 1976. The sugar factory opened in 1883 and closed in 1922.

Decauville Railway's Homebush Mill sugar factory

The sugar factory Homebush Mill imported from France , the Decauville -Lokomotiven no. 16-18 and 24 and pre Decauville- track panels for a 52-km route with a track width mm 600. The locomotives were called 'Petit-Bourg', 'Fives-Lille' and 'Panama'. They were started up by Paul Decauville's younger brother Emil Decauville on the Homebush Plantation in Australia:

Thanks to the water and fuel carried in their tender, the locomotives were able to move a train weighing 15 tons in a period of 2 hours over a distance of 40 km without stopping. One of the locomotives was before delivery in Petit-Bourg on rails with a weight per meter used by 9.5 kg / m to gain experience with a complete train of cars with 1st, 2nd and 3rd class.

Manufacturer no. Construction year design type Gauge Empty
weight		 Service
weight		 Surname operator photos
Decauville  N ° 16 Around 1883 B n2t 600 mm 6th t 7.5 t Petit-Bourg C ie Anglaise des Sucreries d'Australie (1st locomotive) Couillet (Decauville) locos bought by CSR for Homebush Mill. C1883 from the Brandon Collection. (John Oxley library No 6298-0001-0064r) .jpg
Decauville N ° 17 Around 1883 B n2t 600 mm 6th t 7.5 t Fives-Lille C ie Anglaise des Sucreries d'Australie (2nd locomotive) Decauville locomotive 'Fives-Lille' at Homebush Mill (Bob McKillop collection, LRRSA Light Railways No 171, June 2003) .jpg
Decauville N ° 18 1883 B n2 600 mm 5-6 t 6.5-7.5 t Panama C ie Anglaise des Sucreries d'Australie (3rd locomotive) Couillet (Decauville) loco bought by CSR for Homebush Mill. C1883. Terminus of tramway at Baker's Creek. (ANU No 142-36649-66a) .jpg
Decauville N ° 24 Around 1884 B n2t 600 mm 6th t 7.5 t Van de Velde later Knox C ie Anglaise des Sucreries d'Australie (4th locomotive) Decauville locomotive N ° 24 of 1884 Knox (ex Van De Velde) with the only tender supplied by Decauville at the lagoon at Homebush Mill (C.Brunnich, Canegrowers Collection, LRRSA Light Railways No ° 171, June 2003) .jpg
Decauville N ° 25 Around 1884 B n2t 600 mm 6th t 7.5 t Kidd C ie Anglaise des Sucreries d'Australie Bau Levu light railway above Nausori , Fiji . Couillet N ° 736/1884. Excavated in 2011 on the outskirts of Nacokaika and then scrapped.
Decauville N ° 39 Around 1885 B n2t 750 mm 6th t 7.5 t General Gordon C ie Anglaise des Sucreries d'Australie (6th locomotive) Lautoka Mill of the Colonial Sugar Refining Company, Fiji

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Homebush (entry 46797) . Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved September 13, 2015 and August 6, 2020.
  2. ^ Post Office List. Retrieved August 6, 2020.
  3. ^ Homebush Sugar Mill, 1883-1922.
  4. ^ Decauville catalog N ° 30, February 1882, p. 64
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g Decauville Catalog No. 77, November 1890.
  6. ↑ a b c d e f Catalog illustré du “Decauville” Chemin de fer portatif a pose instantanée tout en acier: Exposition Universelle 1889. Société de Etablissements Decauville Ainé (Évry). Paris, 1890, 114 p. In: Corporate archive of Georg Fischer AG .
  7. ^ A b Glen Hall and John Browning: Possibly one of the Couillet (Decauville) locos bought by CSR for Homebush Mill. C1883 from the Brandon Collection. (John Oxley library No: 6298-0001-0064r).
  8. ^ A b John Browning: French Connection - The CSR Decauville / Couillet Locomotives of 1883-5. Light Railways, No 171, June 2003, ISSN 0 727 8101. Pages 3–10.
  9. ^ Glen Hall and John Browning: Possibly one of the Couillet (Decauville) locos bought by CSR for Homebush Mill. C1883 from the Brandon Collection. (John Oxley library No: 6298-0001-0063r).
  10. ↑ With regard to the weight of Panama , the information in catalogs from 1882 and 1889 contradicts one another
  11. ^ Glen Hall and John Browning: Possibly one of the Couillet (Decauville) locos bought by CSR for Homebush Mill. C1883. Terminus of tramway at Baker's Creek. (ANU No: 142-36649-66a).
  12. ^ Glen Hall and John Browning: Société Anonyme Usines Métallurgiques du Hainaut - Locomotives Couillet. Belgium. No. 737.
  13. ^ Vanishing Fijian Steam Locomotives.
  14. ^ Statfold Barn Railway: Rolling Stock. ( Memento from February 26, 2018 in the Internet Archive )