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The Moreton Bay Tramroad Company was a private enterprise attempt to establish railways in the new colony of Queensland. It was still born.
Land Grant Railway
It had been proposed to fund it as a Land Grant Railway. [1]
Horse Power
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.
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 advertisements for the company's propectus in a Sydney newpaper. [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]
1863
- Insolvent Court [10]
- 9 May - the Government Railways Bill repeals the Tramway Act, except for court actions already in action. [11]
1865
- 29 March 1865 - three large shareholder in Supreme Court for not paying calls on contributing shares. [12]
