Koondrook Tramway

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Kerang – Koondrook
Two-axle vertical boiler steam locomotive from the Sentinel Wagon Works, Shropshire (presumably manufacturer number 5766) stopping, presumably in Yeoburn, 1935
Two-axle vertical boiler steam locomotive from Sentinel
Wagon Works , Shropshire (presumably manufacturer number 5766)

Station of Koondrook Tramway, 1935 (PG Dow collection) .jpg

Stop, probably in Yeoburn, 1935
Route of the Koondrook Tramway
Former route
Route length: 22.43 km
Gauge : 1600 mm ( Irish track )
Legend
Railway station, station - across
 Kerang Piangil Line Bendigo - Piangil
   
 Kerang
   
 Yeoburn
   
 Hinkson's
   
 Gannawarra
   
 Yeoburn
   
 Koondrook

The Koondrook Tramway was a 22.43 km long, broad gauge , small railroad with a gauge of 1,600 mm (5 feet 3 inches ) from Kerang on the Loddon River to Koondrook on the Murray River in northern Victoria , Australia .

construction

Ganawarra stop

The route led over flat land. There were 22 bridges with a length of 1.8 to 68.6 m and many water passages. The steel rails of the fixed tracks had a weight per meter of 27.5 kg / m (55 pounds per yard). The total cost, including the rolling stock, was about £ 25,000.

The construction contract was awarded to the company D. Muuro & Co, which handed the completed route over to the Shire Council on time three days before the end of the contract period.

opening

The Koondrook Tramway was inaugurated on July 19, 1998 as the first light rail system to be built due to the Local Authorities' The Tramways in Country Districts Act of 1886. A banquet took place with over 200 invited guests from all over the country.

business

The main traffic initially consisted of wood and agricultural products. Around 1917 there was only one passenger train each morning and evening on Fridays, which took an hour for the one-way route. The Victorian Railways took over the route in 1952 and built a new stop in Teal Point, especially for school traffic with a 102 hp Walker rail bus. The rail bus service was stopped on December 16, 1976.

Ticket for the special trip from November 20, 1977

On November 20, 1977, the route was used by a passenger train in excursion traffic as part of a special trip by the Rail Tourist Association . It was finally officially decommissioned on March 3, 1981.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Railway Time Table , Kerang New Times, Tuesday, October 30, 1917, p. 4
  2. ↑ The Keran and Koondrook Tramway The Ballarat Star (Victoria, 1865-1924), Monday, July 22, 1889, p. 2.
  3. ^ Opening of the Kerang and Koondrook Tramway. The Kerang Times (Victoria, 1889-1901), Tuesday July 23, 1889, p. 3.
  4. ^ The Koondrook Tramway . In: The Argus . Retrieved November 10, 2019. 
  5. ^ Tramways in Country Districts Act . Australasian Legal Information Institute. Retrieved November 10, 2019.
  6. ^ Tramways in Country Districts . In: The Argus . Retrieved November 10, 2019. 
  7. ↑ T356 crosses Pyramid Creek during a photo stop on a rail tour Tourist Association to Koondrook.
  8. ↑ News Rail (Australian Railway Historical Society, Victorian Division), March 1990 (Vol. 18, No. 3).

Coordinates: 35 ° 43 ′ 58.8 ″  S , 143 ° 55 ′ 27.5 ″  E