User:Tabletop/MB Tram

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

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.

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 advertisements for the company's propectus in a Sydney newpaper.


 * 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.

1865

 * 29 March 1865 - three large shareholder in Supreme Court for not paying calls on contributing shares.