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Atherton—Herberton Historic Railway [26] Australian Sugar Cane Railway, Bundaberg— 610 mm (2 ft) gauge. [27] Bally Hooley Steam Railway, Port Douglas— 610 mm (2 ft) gauge. [28] Beaudesert Rail (railway operation ceased from 2003) Big Pineapple Railway, Woombye— 610 mm (2 ft) gauge. [29] (railway operation suspended as at December 2022 [30])
A Sydney Light Rail Urbos 3 tram A modern low-floor E class tram, as used on the Melbourne network. The earliest trams in Australia operated in the latter decades of the 19th century, hauled by horses or "steam tram motors" (also known as "steam dummies"). At the turn of the 20th century, propulsion almost universally turned to electrification ...
In 1950, L/P class tram 154 was the first of Sydney's trams (and first in Australia) to be preserved the fledgling Australian Electric Traction Association, later known as the Sydney Tramway Museum, beginning the preservation of nearly every class of tram. The collection of preserved trams has grown to include the last known examples of some ...
Urban networks are further classified as "light rail" or "heavy rail". [1] Light rail in Australia includes established tram networks in Melbourne and Adelaide continuously operating in various forms since the 19th century, as well as networks in other cities newly constructed after the cessation of tram operation.
Melbourne's first tram was a horse tram from Fairfield railway station to a real estate development in Thornbury; it opened on 20 December 1884, and was closed by 1890.. Seven horse tramlines operated in Melbourne, three were built by the Melbourne Tramway & Omnibus Company (MTOC), while the other four were built by different private comp
Mapleton Tramway [4] (parts operating as a sugar cane tramway) Mount Molloy mine and smelter [5] Mourilyan Harbour Tramway [4] (taken over by the Innisfail and Mourilyan Tramway) Queensland sugar tramways (operating) Stannary Hills Tramway [4] (taken over by the Innisfail and Mourilyan Tramway) Woodford Railway [6] (operating) South Australia
Western Australian timber tramways - on Western Australia timber tramways published in Light Railways Nos 147 to 197, with a bibliography that included reference to: Austin, Jeff; "Timber Tramways of Lowden, Western Australia", Light Railways No.98, October 1987; Austin, Jeff;.
Tramway from Tivoli for construction, and then to bring coal to power the pumps. Heritage listed site (no remnants of tramway) Munro Tramway: Hampton: 1890s 1936 Tramway from sawmills at Perseverance and Ravensbourne to railway at Hampton. [26] [27] Nerang Hardwood Company Neranwood: 1923 1928 Tramway from sawmill to railway at Mudgeeraba ...