Langley Vale Timber Tramway

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Langley Vale Timber Tramway
A-class Climax locomotive weighing 18 t
A-class Climax locomotive weighing 18 t
Route length: 20 km
Gauge : 1270 mm
Maximum slope : 125  ‰
Legend
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Lansdowne River
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Sawmill at Lansdowne
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Cross's Mountain
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Razorback
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2 steep sections downhill and uphill
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West slope of Hannam Vale

The Langley Vale Timber Tramway was a 20-kilometer, narrow-gauge , forest railway operated from 1897 to 1933, with mostly wooden rails with a gauge of 4 feet 2 inches (1270 mm) at Lansdowne in the Manning River Valley , north of Taree , New South Wales .

Route

The route led from the sawmill over mountain routes with a gradient of up to 12.5% ​​(1: 8), over roughly hewn bush bridges of up to fifty meters in length, over Cross's Mountain, over the Razorback, down one steep section and up another to the western slope of Hannam Vale, about 365 m above the sawmill. The ascent usually took less than 3-4 hours.

In the state forest and private forest of William Langley were Blackbutt-eucalyptus , Tallowwood-eucalyptus , Gray Gum , Flooded Gum , Bloodwood , White Mahogany , Turpentine and Brush box but no Ironbark cut -Eukalypten.

business

The forest railway and the sawmill belonged to William Edwin Langley (born February 3, 1860 in Shoalhaven , † November 11, 1946 in Taree ). He worked in his father's company (later Langley Bros.) from 1879 after having previously worked as a carpenter. His new sawmill opened on July 3, 1902. In April 1931 he became president of the Timber Merchants Association.

locomotive

Climax locomotive marked W. Langley & Son, Langley Vale, NSW

From 1912, the 18-tonne was Climax locomotive of the A-Class with the serial number x38 used by the 1912th It was started in November 1933 at Smith & Ellis Ltd. used in Langley Vale. In 1942, she was at 3 feet 6 inches (1067 mm) umgespurt and in the Circular Head Amalgamated Timber Co. in Smithton , Tasmania used. There it was dismantled and scrapped in 1971.

Monument protection

The route of the Langley Vale Tramway leads along the Rock Creek, among other things, through the forestry departments No. 193, 194 and 195. The former route is shown on the company map of the timber harvesting plan. In these departments there are still bridge remains, embankments and cuttings along the former forest railway route . The aim of the existing regulations on monument protection is to preserve all essential remains of earthworks and the infrastructure, especially cuttings.

Structures in the area of ​​the forest railway line must not be destroyed when trees are felled or backed. If there is a cut along the forest railway route, no trees may be felled there. But if a tree accidentally falls on the route, it can be removed if this can be done without damaging the cut. No machines are allowed to drive on the route, unless they cross the forest railway route at a point where it is level with the ground, i.e. H. if there are no essential earthworks . Backing trees with a winch on the forest railway route is not permitted.

further reading

Videos

Individual evidence

  1. ^ John Dennis: The Langley Vale Timber Tramway, NSW, Australia. December 18, 2012. Retrieved September 10, 2018.
  2. ↑ a b Forestry. Empire Commission at Taree. Saw-Mill Inspected. The Sydney Morning Herald, Tuesday September 18, 1928, 10.
  3. ↑ Personnel. The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer. 12 November 1946. page 2.
  4. ↑ Advertising. The Sydney Morning Herald, November 25, 1946. page 12.
  5. ^ Opening of Sawmills. The Sydney Morning Herald, July 4, 1902. page 4.
  6. ^ Neil Smith: William Edwin Langley (1860-1946).
  7. ↑ Mr. William Langley. The Sydney Morning Herald. April 11, 1931. page 17.
  8. ^ Mainly about People The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales, December 1, 1943. Page 2.
  9. ↑ Langley Vale 1920s.
  10. ↑ Geared Steam Locomotive Works: Climax Images - KL
  11. ↑ Climax Locomotives - Unknown Shop Number Search Results. ( Memento from May 17, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ↑ a b Mark Sute and Justin Williams: Variation No. 1 of Harvesting Plan for Compartments 193, 194 & 195, Lansdowne State Forest. June 19, 2015. Page 4 as well as maps 1 and 3 ( Harvest Plan Operational Map - Amendment 1 of June 19, 2015 and Harvest Plan Operational Map of April 10, 2015). Retrieved September 10, 2018.

Coordinates: 31 ° 45 ′ 13.1 ″  S , 152 ° 34 ′ 31.4 ″  E