(rshsdepot) Bangor, Tasmania, Australia - part 1 (Carnarvon Light Railways, Wielangta Tramway and the Coffee Pot locomotive)

["Paul Luchter" <luckyshow_@_mindspring.com>]

Bangor, Tasmania, Australia

Tasmania rail map:
http://www.transport.tas.gov.au/road/transport_tas/gfx/rail_map.gif
 Bangor is across the way east, it is on the Forrestier's Peninsula (east
across Frederick Henry Bay) Between 1642 and 1802, Dutch, French and English
explorers landed here, the home of the Pyster Bay Aborigine tribe.
Here is the 1889 Tasmania Railway map: http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-nk2456-177
Going to the interactive map. Bangor on this map, though there was a rail
line on the peninsula as you can see.

No passenger lines now except tourist lines on Tasmania. That is sad.

On the  Forrestier's Peninsula, there is the Carnarvon Light Railway, read
about it here and see photos, station stops:
http://www.racysrailway.com/rr/pres/carnarvon.html

Derway Valley Railway Preservation Society runs out of Hobart from Hobart to
Parrattah

Here is a map of Rail Trails. I think the Wielangta Tramway might have been
in Bangor:  http://www.railtrails.org.au/guides/tas/map.htm
Read about the Wielangta Tramway "rail trail" (actually the word "trail" is not used in Tasmania) on this page; also note the Ida Valley Railway :
http://www.railtrails.org.au/states/tas/other.htm
How to get to Tasmania by rail and ferry, a 2004 Tasmania rail map:
http://www.railpage.org.au/railmaps/tas.gif
Another map and more details: http://www.railtasmania.com/dvr/line.php

Wielangta Tramway:
Bridge over Iron Gorge, 1911-1915:
http://images.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/tasimg/aug1999/normal/AUTAS001126182278.jpg
Building (maybe a different) bridge:
http://images.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/tasimg/aug1999/normal/AUTAS001126182328.jpg
Coffee Pot loco on bridge:
http://images.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/tasimg/aug1999/normal/AUTAS001126182336.jpg
http://images.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/tasimg/aug1999/normal/AUTAS001126182310.jpg
Coffee Pot locomotive at Rheban Beach, 1911-15:
http://images.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/tasimg/aug1999/normal/AUTAS001126182427.jpg
http://images.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/tasimg/aug1999/normal/AUTAS001126182534.jpg
Heading from Rheban Beach to Wielangta:
http://images.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/tasimg/aug1999/normal/AUTAS001126182518.jpg
Rheban Jetty:
http://images.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/tasimg/aug1999/normal/AUTAS001126182393.jpg
Delivering a big wheel to the mill:
http://images.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/tasimg/aug1999/normal/AUTAS001126182633.jpg
http://images.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/tasimg/aug1999/normal/AUTAS001126182625.jpg
Top of Sandspit River Gorge:
http://images.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/tasimg/aug1999/normal/AUTAS001126182260.jpg
Scene on the tramline:
http://images.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/tasimg/aug1999/normal/AUTAS001126182526.jpg
In the Eucalypt(us) Forest:
http://images.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/tasimg/aug1999/normal/AUTAS001126182286.jpg


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