Moreton Bay Tramway Company

The Moreton Bay Tramroad Company was a private enterprise attempt to establish railways in the new colony of Queensland. It was stillborn.

People
  • Coote,
  • Stephens,
  • Buckley.

Land Grant Railway

It had been proposed to fund it as a Land Grant Railway.[1]

Horse power

The tramway was intended to be operated by horses.[2]

Gradients

The later railway along the route of the tramway has ruling gradients of 1 in 50. This might be rather steep for horse operation.

Nomenclature

The Tramway company is sometimes called a Tramroad.

Timeline

1859
  • Queensland separated from New South Wales on 6 June 1859. Some very preliminary railway plans had been prepared by the New South Wales Government which were handed over to the new Queensland Government.

1860
  • April – An early mention in a political platform of the need for railways or tramways in Queensland.[3]
  • April – An early mention of the constructing firm of Moreton, Peto and Brassey.[4]
  • November – An advertisement for the company's propectus in a Sydney newspaper.[5]
  • November – An advertisement for the company's prospectus in a Brisbane paper.[6]

1861

1862
  • April – coal deposits reported next to the proposed route.[7]
  • 29 May – Tramway assets taken over by Government.[8][9]

1863
  • Insolvent Court[10]
  • 9 May – the Government Railways Bill repeals the Tramway Act, except for court actions already in action.[11]
  • 20 August – Railway Bill in parliament[12]

1865
  • 29 March 1865 – three large shareholder taken to Supreme Court for not paying calls on contributing shares.[13]

The three are:

  • Coote,
  • Stephens,
  • Buckley.

References
  1. "Advertising". The Argus. Melbourne: National Library of Australia. 11 April 1862. p. 3. Retrieved 4 September 2012.
  2. "Advertising". The Argus. Melbourne: National Library of Australia. 11 April 1862. p. 3. Retrieved 4 September 2012.
  3. "Classified Advertising". The Moreton Bay Courier. Brisbane: National Library of Australia. 17 April 1860. p. 3. Retrieved 5 September 2012.
  4. "COLONIAL PARLIAMENT". The Sydney Morning Herald. National Library of Australia. 25 April 1860. p. 5. Retrieved 5 September 2012.
  5. "SYDNEY NEWS". The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser. NSW: National Library of Australia. 8 November 1860. p. 3. Retrieved 6 September 2012.
  6. "Classified Advertising". The Moreton Bay Courier. Brisbane: National Library of Australia. 10 November 1860. p. 1. Retrieved 6 September 2012.
  7. "Advertising". The Argus. Melbourne: National Library of Australia. 5 April 1862. p. 3. Retrieved 5 September 2012.
  8. "LATEST INTELLIGENCE". North Australian and Queensland General Advertiser. Ipswich, Qld.: National Library of Australia. 29 May 1862. p. 2. Retrieved 4 September 2012.
  9. "LATEST INTELLIGENCE". North Australian and Queensland General Advertiser. Ipswich, Qld.: National Library of Australia. 29 May 1862. p. 2. Retrieved 7 September 2012.
  10. "QUEENSLAND". The Mercury. Hobart, Tas.: National Library of Australia. 2 January 1863. p. 3. Retrieved 4 September 2012.
  11. "THE GOVERNMENT RAILWAY BILL". The Courier (Brisbane). Brisbane: National Library of Australia. 9 May 1863. p. 3. Retrieved 7 September 2012.
  12. "THE RAILWAY BILL". The Darling Downs Gazette and General Advertiser. Toowoomba, Qld.: National Library of Australia. 20 August 1863. p. 2. Retrieved 10 September 2012.
  13. "QUEENSLAND". The Mercury. Hobart, Tas.: National Library of Australia. 29 March 1865. p. 3. Retrieved 8 September 2012.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.