| 词条 | Brownlee Tramway (Marlborough) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Brownlee Tramway of Marlborough, New Zealand, (as opposed to the later Bell Hill mill tramway in Westland) was a logging railway of the Rai and Pelorus Valleys used to take timber from the Carluke Sawmill through to the shipping port and mill of Blackball, Havelock. It operated from c.1881 through to 1915[1] as part of William Brownlee's (and later his son, John's) extensive sawmilling operation in the area. {{multiple image| total_width = 650 | image1 = Logs from the lower Opouri Valley to be railed to the Carluke band saw mill, 3-3-1912 (Brownlee Tramway, Marlborough Museum, Marlborough Historical Society).jpg | caption1 = Logs in lower Opouri Valley to be railed to Carluke band saw mill | image2 = Steam locomotive, Opouri, hauling logs down the tramline to the mill at Blackball (Brownlee Tramway, Marlborough Museum, Marlborough Historical Society).jpg | caption2 = Steam locomotive Opouri hauling logs down to the mill at Blackball | image3 = William Brownlee's sawmill at the port of Blackball on a distributary of the Pelorus River, less than 2 km from Havelock (Marlborough Museum, Marlborough Historical Society).jpg | caption3 = Brownlee's sawmill at Blackball on the Pelorus River | footer = All photographs courtesy of [https://virtualexhibit.marlboroughmuseum.org.nz/mhs/vewebsite10/exhibit3/vexmain3.html Brownlee Collection at Marlborough Museum - Marlborough Historical Society Inc] }} LineThe tramway was built to {{track gauge|3 ft 6 in}} gauge, and to a comparatively high standard for the possibility of a government takeover to form a line to Nelson. It totaled {{convert|29|km|mi}} in 1906[2] and was the only significant tramway in the Marlborough Region. Carluke, a sawmill and settlement near Rai Valley township (named after the Scottish town in which the Brownlee family hailed from) was where the main line began. It headed south through the Rai Valley, and joined the Pelorus River valley on the north side, opposite to the Pelorus River Reserve and Pelorus Bridge. It turned eastwards and followed the Pelorus River until crossing it at 'Dalton's Bridge'. The formation from here now mostly forms part of State Highway 6 until where it crossed the Wakamarina River at Canvastown. An embankment on the east side is still visible today. From here it carried on closely to the main road with some parts having been used by the road since closure until terminating at Blackball. Very little remains at Blackball today except the hull of the abandoned SS Pelorus. Locomotives
Several self-built internal combustion engine powered trolley was used on the tramway.[6] There were other small locomotives trialed on the tramway as well (see below). Other TramwaysBrownlee's operated an earlier tramway in the Kaituna Valley south of Havelock in the 1870s. it was not connected to the later Carluke-Blackball tramway. A small vertical boilered loco once worked the line, but did not prove successful.[7] When the native forest milling rights ran out around the Rai Valley, Brownlee's moved to the West Coast, based in Ruru. William Brownlee was one of the main shareholders of the Lake Brunner Sawmilling Company, and later bought the remaining shares out.[8] References1. ^{{cite web |title=The Brownlees Enterprise |url=http://www.theprow.org.nz/yourstory/the-brownlees-enterprise/ |website=The Prow |accessdate=11 August 2018}} 2. ^{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.co.nz/books/about/New_Zealand_Railway_and_Tramway_Atlas.html?id=OsnRPgAACAAJ|title=New Zealand Railway and Tramway Atlas|last=Yonge|first=John Roger|last2=Company|first2=Quail Map|date=1993|publisher=Quail Map Company|isbn=9780900609923|language=en}} 3. ^{{cite web |title=Brownlee & Co. No. Unknown-Havelock, New Zealand |url=http://www.steamlocomotive.info/vlocomotive.cfm?Display=27630 |website=Steam Locomotives |accessdate=12 August 2018}} 4. ^{{cite web |title=Railway accident, Pelorus Marlborough |url=https://virtualexhibit.marlboroughmuseum.org.nz/mhs/vewebsite10/exhibit3/e30047b.html |website=Marlborough Museum |accessdate=12 August 2018}} 5. ^1 {{cite web |title=Industrial Locomotives |url=http://www.nzrsr.co.nz/view_page.php?page=9&search=false&sort=none&order=none |website=New Zealand Rolling Stock Register |accessdate=12 August 2018}} 6. ^{{cite web |title=Outing on a trolly (sic) |url=https://virtualexhibit.marlboroughmuseum.org.nz/mhs/vewebsite10/exhibit3/e30115b.html |website=Marlborough Museum |accessdate=12 August 2018}} 7. ^{{cite web |title=Vertical Boiler Steam Locomotive |url=https://virtualexhibit.marlboroughmuseum.org.nz/mhs/vewebsite10/exhibit3/e30038a.html |website=Marlborough Museum |accessdate=12 August 2018}} 8. ^{{cite web |title=Chapter 38 - Sawmilling on the West Coast |url=http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-ReeWasI-t1-body-d38.html |website=Victoria - University of Wellington |accessdate=14 August 2018}} External links{{Commonscat}}
2 : Logging railways in New Zealand|3 ft 6 in gauge railways in New Zealand |
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