Rail Transport in Queensland - Sugar Tramways

Sugar Tramways

Queensland Railways sold a line in 1964 to the Gin Gin Cooperative Mill who converted it to a sugar tramway. A number of tramways of 610 mm gauge for the transport of sugar cane have operated in Queensland as private concerns, associated with the relevant sugar cane mill. These tramways are quite advanced technically, with hand-me-down rails cascaded from the normal rails, remote-controlled brake vans, concrete sleepers in places, and tamping machines in miniature. The twenty or so separate tramways cooperate in research and development.