Re: Re-Gauging other than to Standard Gauge

[Barry Campbell <barryC@qimr.edu.au>]

Bill Bolton wrote:
> 
> "James C" <noemail@emailsux.com> wrote:
> 
> > Any vice versa case? where sugar cane railway convert to 1.067meter gauge
> > railway?
> 
> Not as far as I'm aware, but one mill has always run 1067mm for its
> cane "tram" system (I don't recall off hand which one it is, perhaps
> one the Mackay area mills, but I'm sure canetram59 can tell you
> without looking it up).
> 
> If I recall correctly there is a length of dual gauge trackage where
> the 1067mm system and the 610mm system of a neighbouring mill share a
> tramway right of way along a boundary between mill service areas.
> 
Pioneer Mill at Brandon north of Ayr is the only 1067mm gauge mill.
These days it is under the same ownership of the neighbouring Kalamia
Mill which has a 610mm gauge system. There is quite a bit of dual gauge
track. Like all of the cane railway systems it is well worth seeing.


Barry Campbell