Wielangta Tramways

Title: Wielangta Tramways
Description: Tramway network from Wielangta area to Rheban used by the timber industry. The initial railway to the Wielangta Mill was used until 1925. Other mills were created later and various branch lines built. The last was decommissioned in the 1940's.

Follow the link below for more information:; A Short History of the Timber Industry in the Wielangta State Forest
Relation: Photographs of the Wielangta Railway, Allport Collection; The Wielangta and Blackman Bay Tramways by David Beck, Light Railways Winter 1975; Sketch Map of Wielangta Tramways; Postcards from the town that disappeared; A Short History of the Timber Industry in the Wielangta State Forest
Date Comissioned: 1911

Media: "Coffee Pot" locomotive hauling wagons across a railway bridge on the Wielangta tramline - Henry Allport

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Section of the Wielangta tramline in open eucalypt forest
Section of the Wielangta tramline under manual construction
Sketch Map of Wielangta Tramways
Stowing equipment from the ships at Rheban jetty
The schooner "Rooganah" off Rheban Beach with three people on the jetty in foreground
Timber being shunted up to the Wielangta "Big" Mill building site by locomotive
Towing flywheel to the Wielangta "Big" Mill
Travelling on the Wielangta tramline on a "Coffee Pot" locomotive
Wielangta tramline under construction with spar rails and bed logs in place
Wielangta tramline under construction with spar rails laid out
Workers hauling equipment off the Rheban Jetty on tramline