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Up to 16 logs could be transported per train. Up to two return runs were conducted per day, if required. The sawmills could cut the logs faster than the sawn timber could be loaded onto ships. Thus connecting the tramways in Coffs
Harbour and Woolgoolga was considered during busy times, but the plans
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A horizontal bull wheel was installed in 1908 at the upper end of the gravity operated incline with a grade of 1 in 5 (i.e. 2 %). When loaded log cars ran down the incline they pulled up empty ones uphill by a steel rope with. By end of March 1909 the tramway had been extended to 8 km (5 miles).
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The
British Australian Timber Company (B.A.T. Co.) was founded in 1906 as a subsidiary of Dalgety Holdings. It purchased in October 1906 a sawmill in Woolgoolga, which had been set-up in 1903 by George W. Nichols. The deal included machinery and equipment, as well as 2.2 hectares (5.5 acres) of land
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delivered rails and machines for the sawmill to
Woolgoolga in 1906 with a total weight of 200 t. Building a tramway was required, because the unsealed roads became to muddy by the bullock teams and traction engines. Its construction commenced mid 1907.
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put the B.A.T. Co. into financial difficulties, because the orders from
Germany, Japan, South Africa and the United Kingdom could not be placed with them anymore. The operation ceased in 1914 and most assets were sold in November and December 1916.
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B.A.T. Co. purchased a used 12 t steam locomotive, which Lewis Thomas had previously used on his 3 km (2 mi) longe industrial railway from
Aberdare Colliery in Blackstone to the station of the government railways in
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The tramway is not listed in the heritage register or on the heritage schedule of the Coffs
Harbour local environmental plan of Coffs Harbour, although it represents the social and economic history of the region.
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The tramway of B.A.T. Co. ran from the government-owned jetty of
Woolgoolga to the forest in the lower Bucca of the Jesse Simpson Range. By August 1907 it reached the 3 mile depot. Subsequently the ship
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delivered more steel rails with a weight of 30 t to
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A loaded rail car is exhibited at 73 Turon Parade, Woolgoolga in front of
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Woolgoolga was operated from 1912 by the Great Northern Timber (G.N.T. Co.) on its 3 ft 6 in (1067 mm) track from the jetty to
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tree was exhibited from 1990 to at least 2014 at the former Clouton & Blacker Mill in 1670 Solitary Islands Way, Woolgoolga.
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By end of April of the same year it was 10,5 km (6⅓ miles) long. Above the incline and on the jetty it was hauled by horses.
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and three log harvesting contracts of 3,500 pounds plus two more sawmills in Woolgoolga and south of it.
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near Ipswich in Queensland. It had been built in 1886 with works number 205 by Murray & Paterson in
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have not been implemented. By 1913 six ships were loaded per week. Wet weather and the outbreak of
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A horizontal bull wheel was installed at the upper end of the gravity-operated incline
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Bananacoast Railway: Rails of the Coffs Coast A Century Plus of service 1906–2015.
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Bullock teams with logs and railway sleepers at Woolgoolga jetty crane, 1929
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The British Australian Timber Company Limited (Part 2 - Woolgoolga - NSW).
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was a 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) long logging railway with a gauge of
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Australian Railway History Society, ARHS Bn No. 832, Februar 2007.
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The Tramways of Woolgoolga, The British Australian Timber Company.
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Australian Railway History Society, ARHS Bn No. 94, August 1945.
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Woolgoolga - The History of a Village, North Coast, N.S.W.
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728:BAT Co relics, 73 River Street, Woolgoolga 2456.
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855:Big Log, 1670 Solitary Islands Way Woolgoolga.
55:Route of tramway superimposed onto a modern map
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