Moreton Bay Tramway Company
The Moreton Bay Tramroad Company was a private enterprise attempt to establish railways in the new colony of Queensland. It was stillborn.People
It had been proposed to fund it as a Land Grant Railway.Horse power
The tramway was intended to be operated by horses.Gradients
The later railway along the route of the tramway has ruling gradients of 1 in 50. This might be rather steep for horse operation.Nomenclature
The Tramway company is sometimes called a Tramroad.Timeline
1862
- April – coal deposits reported next to the proposed route.
- 29 May – Tramway assets taken over by Government.
1863
- Insolvent Court
- 9 May – the Government Railways Bill repeals the Tramway Act, except for court actions already in action.
- 20 August – Railway Bill in parliament
1865
- 29 March 1865 – three large shareholder taken to Supreme Court for not paying calls on contributing shares.
The three are:
- Coote,
- Stephens,
- Buckley.
