W.A. Timber Company
Syndicate of Victorian investors
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W.A. Timber Company was a syndicate of Victorian investors granted a timber concession of 181,500 acres on Geographe Bay in the south west of Western Australia in 1870.[1][a]
The company went on to develop a mill and jetty at Lockville, 7 kilometres (4.3 miles) north-east of Busselton.[b][3]
The locomotive ordered for the mill railway, named Ballaarat, was the first steam locomotive to operate in Western Australia, and the first to be built in Australia for 1067 mm (3 ft 6 in) narrow gauge.[4][5] The railway was more commonly known as the Ballaarat tramline.[6]
The W.A. Timber Company was liquidated in 1888 and its assets were auctioned.[7]