Re: Tunnels

["John Browning" <ceo8@rocknet.net.au>]

A brief feature and photographs on this topic appears in "Light Railways"
148 (August 1999) which is currently on its way to Light Railway Research
Society of Australia members, and will hit selected news stands soon.

> Non QR Lines
>   1 tunnel on Lahey's Tramway (3'6" timber line, long
>     closed, beyond Canungra QR terminus)
>   1 tunnel on 2' guage at Ballara, near Mt Isa (long
>     closed mining line in region between Cloncurry & Mt Isa)
>   1 tunnel through Brinsmead Gap, Cairns, on 2' cane tramway.
>     This is a new tunnel, built a couple of years ago to
>     get the cane tramway out of the way of a road duplication.

There was also a tunnel within the Mount Morgan Mine, which was later
obliterated by mining excavation.

Please visit http://www.lrrsa.org.au to discover more details of the
magazine.

You may well like the illustrated article "Four and Six coupled on Sugar
Mill Tramways" which is at

http://www.lrrsa.org.au/LR148_4.htm

John Browning