Labasa Mill Tramway
The Labasa Mill Tramway is a 41-mile-long (66 km) narrow gauge railway with a gauge of 2 feet (610 mm) in the northeast of Vanua Levu, the second largest island of Fiji.
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| Line length | 26 miles (42 km) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Operation
The railway is operated from 1894 to today for the transportation of cane from the farms to the Labasa Mill for crushing..[2]
Locomotives
In 1957 the following locomotives were used:
| Owner | Manufacturer | Year | No. | Type | Current location | Current status |
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| Labasa Sugar Mill | Fowler | 1896 | 2 | 0-6-0T tank locomotive | Playground | Display |
| Labasa Sugar Mill | Fowler | 1906 | 3 | 0-6-2T tank locomotive | Labasa Sugar Mill | Display |
| Labasa Sugar Mill | Fowler | 1907 | 5 | 0-6-2T tank locomotive | Labasa Sugar Mill | Derelict |
| Labasa Sugar Mill | Fowler | 1926 | 6 (3) | 0-6-0T petrol locomotive | Labasa Sugar Mill | Derelict[3] |
| Labasa Sugar Mill | Hudswell Clarke | 1937 | 7 | 0-6-0 diesel locomotive | ||
| Labasa Sugar Mill | Drewry Car Company | 1950 | 8 | 0-4-0 diesel locomotive | ||
| Labasa Sugar Mill | Clyde Engineering | 1955 | 9 | 0-6-0 diesel locomotive[4] |
References
- Fergusson, Jim (20 January 2016). "Fiji & Pacific Islands Railways, Passenger Stations & Stops" (PDF). railwaystationlists.co.uk. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
- "Labasa mill, 1894-1982 (Fiji)". LRSSA Magazine. 77. July 1982.
- Douglas C. Bailey: There are 66 locomotives built by: 'Fowler'.
- Hodge, Peter (October 1960). "Narrow Gauge In Fiji". Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin. 103 (103): 21–40. JSTOR 43517963.
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