>Just thought i would confuse you more..
>The Broken Hill Tramway was a railway but named a tramway because of the
>monoploy on railways the government used to have.
Getting very off topic here, but....
Well, the street tramways in Broken Hill were called a tramway.
However the Silverton Tramway was the railway which ran from Broken
Hill to the South Australian border at Cockburn. IIRC for some time
the Silverton held the world record for heaviest train operated on
3'6" gauge trackage.
I rode from Railwaytown to Burns (the NSW side of the border) and
back, and from memory, these trains were called "trams" by the crew.
The BHP iron-ore railways from Whyalla to Iron Knob et al were also
known as a tramway, despite running very long, heavy trains.
I could also refer to our narrow gauge model, the Dutton Bay Tramway,
which was named under similar rules, but I won't :-)
Cheers...JD
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Dutton Bay Tramway pages updated 1 November