Moreton Bay Tramway Company

The Moreton Bay Tramroad Company was a private enterprise attempt to establish railways in the new colony of Queensland. It was stillborn.

People

 * Coote,
 * Stephens,
 * Buckley.


 * Abraham Fitzgibbon engineer, who was assistant to William Doyne on the Dun Mountain Tramway in Nelson, New Zealand.

Land Grant Railway
It had been proposed to fund it as a Land Grant Railway.

Horse power
The tramway was intended to be operated by horses.

Gradients
The later railway along the route of the tramway has ruling gradients of 1 in 50. This might be rather steep for horse operation, unless unloaded in uphill direction.

Rails
The line was originally to use 35 lb/yd rail.

Nomenclature
The Tramway company is sometimes called a Tramroad.

1859

 * Queensland separated from New South Wales on 6 June 1859. Some very preliminary railway plans had been prepared by the New South Wales Government which were handed over to the new Queensland Government.

1860

 * April – An early mention in a political platform of the need for railways or tramways in Queensland.
 * April – An early mention of the constructing firm of Moreton, Peto and Brassey.
 * November – An advertisement for the company's prospectus in a Sydney newspaper.
 * November – An advertisement for the company's prospectus in a Brisbane paper.

1862

 * April – coal deposits reported next to the proposed route.
 * 29 May – Tramway assets taken over by Government.

1863

 * Insolvent Court
 * 9 May – the Government Railways Bill repeals the Tramway Act, except for court actions already in action.
 * 20 August – Railway Bill in parliament

1865
The three are:
 * 29 March 1865 – three large shareholder taken to Supreme Court for not paying calls on contributing shares.
 * Coote,
 * Stephens,
 * Buckley.