Marrawah Tramway

Marrawah Tramway
Spider locomotive before boiler refit in 1923 The Marrawah Tramway, 1951
Technical
Line length28 miles (45.1 km)
Track gauge3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm)
Operating speed12 miles per hour (19 km/h) max.
Maximum incline1 in 40, i.e. 2.5  %
Route map
km
0
 Smithton
 Leesville
 Lumming's Mill
 Mella
(closed 1944)
4,8
 Produce Stop (3 Mile)
6,4
 Four Mile
 Old Cuba Mill Branch
8,0
 Five Mile
 Old Trowutta Mill Branch
9,7
 Six Mile
 Togari Mill
(closed 1929)
11,3
 Seven Mile
14,5
 Nine Mile
16,1
 Ten Mile
 Wooden Tramway
(closed 1937)
17,7
 Eleven Mile
 Brittons’ Tramway
22,5
 Fourteen Mile
 Lee's Tramway
(closed 1940)
 Montagu River
27,4
 Seventeen Mile (Bond Tier)
29,0
 Eighteen Mile
 Bond Tier mountain
 Marrawah Timber Co.
 Welcome River
 Salmon River Junction
 Jaeger's Tramway
 Redpa
37.4
 East Marawah
(23¼ Mile, closed 1939)
45.1
 Marrawah
(28 Mile, closed 1939)
 Red: steel rails, blue: wooden rails

The Marrawah Tramway was a 28 miles (45.1 km) long narrow gauge forest railway near Marrawah in Tasmania with a gauge of 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm). The construction was initiated around 1911 to harvest timber in the Mowbray Swamp. The tramway was bought by the state government in October 1913 and the steel rails extended to Marrawah. It was decommissioned in 1961.

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