2 ft gauge railways in Australia explained

A list of narrow-gauge railways in Australia.

Installations

State/territory	Railway
New South Wales	Bulahdelah Logging Railway^[1] (operational status unknown) Goondah-Burrinjuck Railway (defunct) Cataract Dam construction railway; 8.8km (05.5miles), (defunct) Illawarra Light Railway Museum (separate gauge railway also present) (operating) Kiama Harbour-Pikes Hill Quarry^[2] (defunct) Marsden Weir Steam Museum (defunct) Megalong Valley Tourist Railway (defunct) Melaleuca Station, Chinderah (defunct) Menangle Narrow Gauge Railway (operating) Newington Armaments Depot (defunct) Timbertown Heritage Railway (located in Timbertown) (operating) Pete's Hobby Railway (located in Junee) (Private 2 ft gauge railway that is operating. Public admittance is not allowed under the Rail Safety National Law (NSW), No. 82a of 2012)
Queensland	Australian Sugar Cane Railway^[3] (located in Bundaberg Botanic Gardens) (operating) Ballyhooley Steam Railway (operating) Dreamworld Express (located in Dreamworld) (operating) Durundur Railway (operating) Geraldton Shire Tramway^[4] (taken over by the Innisfail and Mourilyan Tramway) Innisfail and Mourilyan Tramway (owned by Queensland Rail) (parts operating as a sugar cane tramway) Irvinebank Tramway (parts operating as a sugar cane tramway) Mapleton Tramway (parts operating as a sugar cane tramway) Mount Molloy mine and smelter^[5] Mourilyan Harbour Tramway (taken over by the Innisfail and Mourilyan Tramway) Queensland sugar tramways (operating) Stannary Hills Tramway (taken over by the Innisfail and Mourilyan Tramway) Woodford Railway^[6] (operating)
South Australia	Cobdogla Irrigation Museum^[7] (operating)
Tasmania	Comstock Tramway, Mount Lyell^[8] (defunct) Comstock Tramway, Zeehan (defunct) Hercules Haulage (defunct) Ida Bay Railway (operating) Lake Margaret Tram (defunct) Magnet Tramway (defunct) Mount Lyell Quarry Railway (defunct) Mount Lyell Underground Railway (defunct) National Portland Cement Limited, Darlington, Maria Island^[9] (defunct) North East Dundas Tramway (defunct) Redwater Creek Steam and Heritage Society (operating) Sandfly Colliery Tramway (defunct) Wee Georgie Wood Railway (formerly known as the Mount Farrell Tramway) (operating) Zeehan & North East Dundas (defunct)
Victoria	Alexandra Timber Tramway (operating) Cheetham Salt Works^[10] (defunct) Coal Creek Bush Tramway (operating) Kerrisdale Mountain Railway (operating) Melbourne Benevolent Asylum (defunct) Red Cliffs Historical Steam Railway (operating) Rubicon Lumber and Tramway Company^[11] (defunct)
Western Australia	Bennett Brook Railway (operating) Roebourne and Cossack tramway^[12] (defunct)

See also

• 2 ft and 600 mm gauge railways
• Heritage railway
• Narrow-gauge railways in Australia
• Railways on the West Coast of Tasmania

External links

• Queensland sugar cane railways today

Notes and References

1. Web site: Steam in Australia, 2013 . 16 February 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140223012616/http://www.internationalsteam.co.uk/anz/ausop.htm . 23 February 2014 . live .
2. McCarthy. Ken. 1982. Tramways of the Illawarra . Trolley Wire. 23 . 4 . 3,4,5 .
3. Web site: Australian Sugar Cane Railway - official website . 19 February 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140309061732/http://qldrailheritage.com/ascr/index.html . 9 March 2014 . live .
4. https://web.archive.org/web/20060822001415/http://members.shaw.ca/twofooter/ww2ftrrA-C.htm#Australia#Australia World Wide Listing of Two foot, 1' 11 1/2", 600 mm (60cm) & 610mm Railroads (from archive.org) - Australia
5. 1 August 2014.
6. Web site: Woodford Railway - official website . 21 February 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140305061802/http://www.angrms.org.au/index.html . 5 March 2014 . live .
7. Web site: Cobdogla Irrigation Museum . 16 February 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140222033549/http://www.nationaltrust.org.au/sa/cobdogla-irrigation-museum . 22 February 2014 . live .
8. News: LYELL. . . Hobart, Tas. . 22 November 1918 . 28 June 2012 . 4 . National Library of Australia.
9. Book: Australian Railway Atlas No.1 - Tasmania. June 2004. The Quail Map Company. Exeter, UK. 1-898319-69-3. Map 12 & page 26.
10. Web site: Alexandra Timber Tramway - Day's Tractor ex Cheetham Salt . 16 February 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140301044817/http://www.alexandratramway.org.au/locomotives_non_steam/days_ex_cheetham_salt.htm . 1 March 2014 . live .
11. Web site: Alexandra Timber Tramway - Historical background . 16 February 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140222095155/http://www.alexandratramway.org.au/historical_background.htm . 22 February 2014 . live .
12. Web site: Roebourne and Cossack tramway . 15 August 2012 . 16 February 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140222100434/http://transpressnz.blogspot.nl/2012/08/the-one-time-roebourne-and-cossack.html . 22 February 2014 . live .