Homebush (Queensland)
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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 |
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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) |
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Decauville | N ° 17Around 1883 | B n2t | 600 mm | 6th t | 7.5 t | Fives-Lille | C ie Anglaise des Sucreries d'Australie (2nd locomotive) |
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Decauville | N ° 181883 | B n2 | 600 mm | 5-6 t | 6.5-7.5 t | Panama | C ie Anglaise des Sucreries d'Australie (3rd locomotive) |
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Decauville | N ° 24Around 1884 | B n2t | 600 mm | 6th t | 7.5 t | Van de Velde later Knox | C ie Anglaise des Sucreries d'Australie (4th locomotive) |
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Decauville | N ° 25Around 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 ° 39Around 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
- ↑ Homebush (entry 46797) . Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved September 13, 2015 and August 6, 2020.
- ^ Post Office List. Retrieved August 6, 2020.
- ^ Homebush Sugar Mill, 1883-1922.
- ^ Decauville catalog N ° 30, February 1882, p. 64
- ↑ a b c d e f g Decauville Catalog No. 77, November 1890.
- ↑ 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 .
- ^ 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).
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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).
- ↑ With regard to the weight of Panama , the information in catalogs from 1882 and 1889 contradicts one another
- ^ 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).
- ^ Glen Hall and John Browning: Société Anonyme Usines Métallurgiques du Hainaut - Locomotives Couillet. Belgium. No. 737.
- ^ Vanishing Fijian Steam Locomotives.
- ^ Statfold Barn Railway: Rolling Stock. ( Memento from February 26, 2018 in the Internet Archive )