Re: Re-Gauging other than to Standard Gauge

["John McCandless" <johnmc@topend.com.au>]

canetram59 <canetram59@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:397e22c1@grissom...
> There were a couple of private 3'6" gauge branches at Avondale. The one to
> the east of Avondale station was owned by Fairymead Mill and was operated
by
> their own 3'6" locos.
> Buss Bros. had a private 9 mile long branch line built to their Invicta
Mill
> from Avondale in 1911. This branch was worked by QR locomotives. Invicta
> Mill closed in 1918, was dismantled and removed to Giru, south of
Townsville
> where it was re-erected as (guess what?) the Invicta Mill. The branch line
> was offered to the QR for purchase but this was declined. However, the
> branch continued to operate for a few more years but was out of use by
1928
> and dismantled in 1930. Speed limit on the branch was 10mph and B13,
B15Con
> and PB15 locos worked the line. Stations on the line were Flagstone
(3m36c),
> Colston (4m26c), Smith's Siding (6m11c), Invicta (8m42c) and Invicta Mill
> (8m66c)
> Regards
> David Mewes

The branch i'm thinking of was very much intact (but i assume disconnected
from the NCL) last time i travelled to Brisbane by train (oct 98).  The NCL
crosses over it on the north side of Avondale.


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John McCandless
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Cloncurry Qld Au
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