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2ft 6in gauge horse drawn tramway. Welshpool station, Victoria, Australia
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Connected Welshpool to Port Welshpool. Total length ~ 5 kms (3.1 miles) and ran onto the fishing jetty. The line opened 1905 closed on 1 Jan 1941.
Port Welshpool 1938
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This was a VR tramway.
A 1929 Parliamentary Standing Committee On Railways map showing a proposed broad-gauge extension and existing narrow-gauge tramway between Welshpool and the Port Welshpool Jetty.
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Extension was never built.
"PORT WELSHPOOL, VIC." viewer.slv.vic.gov.au/?entity=IE8769… via @Library_Vic
c. 1920
Near Welshpool
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'A RAILWAY HORSE-TRAM'
The Argus Sat 1 Mar 1930 Page 7
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Seems to be at Welshpool station.
Port Welshpool Turnbull Street at Stewart Street looking North VR Horse Tramway Right of Way
Weston Langford 30 July 2005
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Port Welshpool Turnbull Street at Townsend Street looking South VR Horse Tramway Right of Way
Weston Langord 30 July 2005
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