| 词条 | Hercules Haulage |
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The Hercules Haulage also known as the Mount Read Haulage, the Hercules Tram [1] and the Williamsford Haulage Line,[2][3] was a self-acting {{RailGauge|2ft|lk=on}} narrow gauge tramway on the side of Mount Read in Western Tasmania, that connected the Hercules Mine with Williamsford and then to the North East Dundas Tramway. The MineThe Haulage was created to move ores from the Hercules Mine on Mount Read.[4] The mine was operational between the 1890s and the 1980s, and closed in 2000 [5] and rehabilitation works commenced in 2005 [6] The HaulageThe haulage was self acting[7] and one mile (1.6 km) long and 1,642 feet (550m) high with a maximum gradient of 1 in 5.[8] It was claimed to be the largest and steepest self-acting tramway of its kind [9][10] Later HaulageOn the closure of the NE Dundas Tramway, the Aerial Ropeway [11] from Hercules was built which took ore in a northerly direction to Rosebery, some literature confuses the two separate systems. Notes1. ^{{Citation | author1=Harvey, John Henry 1855–1938 photographer | title=Tram to Hercules Mine, Williamstown, Tas | publication-date=1880 | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10724710 | accessdate=6 April 2012 }} 2. ^{{Citation | title=Williamsford haulage c1890s | publisher=State Library of Tasmania | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/36698370 | accessdate=6 April 2012 }} 3. ^{{Citation | title=Williamsford: collection of postcards | publisher=State Library of Tasmania | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/36698002 | accessdate=6 April 2012 }} 4. ^Some references note the Hercules Mine as being on Mount Hamilton, a separate named feature on the slopes of Mount Read 5. ^http://www.mindat.org/loc-11803.html 6. ^{{Citation | author1=Pollington, Michael | author2=Lockley, Jim | author3=Grun, Aniela | author4=Pitt & Sherry (Firm) | title=Hercules mine decommissioning and rehabilitation plan – public discussion draft | publication-date=2005 | publisher=Pitt & Sherry | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/37951630 | accessdate=6 April 2012 }} 7. ^http://www.lexic.us/definition-of/self-acting – see item 2 8. ^Light Railways, number 35 Autumn 1971 p.22 has the gradient average as 1 in 3.2, and a maximum of 1.5 with operating speed of 14 mph – further details in Light Railways number 27, page 25 by Wayne Chynoweth 9. ^{{cite book| authorlink=Geoffrey Blainey|last=Blainey|first=Geoffrey| title= The Peaks of Lyell | edition=6th | publisher=St. David's Park Publishing | location=Hobart| year=2000| isbn=0-7246-2265-9}} 3rd edition 1967 page 243 10. ^NOTES ON SELF – ACTING TRAMWAY, THE HERCULES MINE, TASMANIA.(A paper read before the Sydney University Engineering Society, November 12th,1902. By.B. SAWYER, B.E.)The Hercules Mine, situated on the western slope of Mount Hamilton, a spur of Mount Read, is connected with the terminus of the North-East Dundas Railway at Williamsford by means of an inclined self-acting tramway-on the endless rope system. The slope length of this line is eighty and a half chains, and the difference in elevation between the Government line and the "send-off" at the Mine is 1,642 feet. The average gradient is, therefore, 1 in 3'2, the maximum gradient being 1 in 1'5, and the minimum, i.e., the approach to Williamsford terminus, 1 in 8-8. source: http://escholarship.usyd.edu.au/journals/index.php/SUES/article/.../2239 11. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article24287563 |title=ZINC COMPANY'S WORKS AT ROSEBERY — PREMIER'S TOUR. |newspaper=The Mercury |location=Hobart, Tasmania |date=13 September 1929 |accessdate=6 April 2012 |page=10 |via=National Library of Australia}} References
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