27-625: The Baldivis tramway , also referred to as the Peel Estate tramway or Peel tramline , was a short-lived tramway , originally planned to be operating from Jandakot railway station to Karnup , in Western Australia. The line was constructed to support the post-World War I Group Settlement Scheme at the Peel Estate in Baldivis but was never fully completed, only reaching as far as Wellard . The line existed from 1920 to 1925 and
54-623: A logistics centre and the Volkswagen factory. Minister for Lands (Western Australia) Cabinet position in Western Australia Minister for Lands is a position in the government of Western Australia , currently held by John Carey of the Labor Party . The position was first created in 1870, under the name Commissioner of Crown Lands , at a time when Western Australia
81-502: A stationary engine, or pulled by small, light locomotives. Tramways can exist in many forms; sometimes simply tracks temporarily placed on the ground to transport materials around a factory, mine or quarry. Many use narrow-gauge railway technology, but because tramway infrastructure is not intended to support the weight of vehicles used on railways of wider track gauge , the infrastructure can be built using less substantial materials, enabling considerable cost savings. The term "tramway"
108-605: Is not used in North America, but is commonly used in the United Kingdom and elsewhere where British railway terminology and practices influenced management practices, terminologies and railway cultures, such as Australia , New Zealand , and those parts of Asia, Africa and South America that consulted with British engineers when undergoing modernization. In New Zealand, they are commonly known as " bush tramways " and are often not intended to be permanent. In Australia
135-721: Is now the Cities of Kwinana and Rockingham , that was purchased by the Western Australian government for £ 24,230 in February 1920. Of this land, approximately a quarter was swamp land. The intention was for this land to be settled as part of the Group Settlement Scheme, with each settler to receive 120 acres (49 ha), which was supposed to be a mixture of swamp, forest and scrub. The construction of houses, drainage and road and rail infrastructure were
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216-494: The 9 Mile Dumps site. The site, which also takes its name from the distance of the Baldivis Tramway from its northern starting point, is an accumulation of sand dunes that are the result of extensive excavations for the drainage canal. The 9 Mile was also the site were a branch line along Thomas Road connected to the main line. The 13 Mile site was the southern terminus of the Baldivis Tramway and has subsequently become
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270-628: The Peel Estate. The works were supervised by the experienced chief engineer Richard John Anketell, after whom the suburb of Anketell was later named. By September 1921, 15 miles (24 km) of the track had been laid, at a declared cost of £400 a mile. The tramway came under scrutiny by the Western Australian Parliament in September 1922 when it was alleged that the line had been built without authorisation, avoiding
297-635: The distance of the Baldivis Tramway from its northern starting point and is located in what is now the suburb of Mandogalup . The 7 Mile Site, also in Mandogalup and also named after the distance from the northern starting point of the tramway, is now the site of the Mandogalup Community Hall and Fire Station. The area around the Peel Main Drain east of the current-day Kwinana railway station has been heritage listed as
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#1732791547651324-567: The ground they were less likely to be blocked by debris, but they obstructed other traffic, and the wagons could not be used beyond the limits of the rails – whereas plateways had the advantage that trucks with unflanged wheels could be wheeled freely on wharves and in factories. Edge rails were the forerunners of the modern railway track. These early lines were built to transport minerals from quarries and mines to canal wharves. From about 1830, more extensive trunk railways appeared, becoming faster, heavier and more sophisticated and, for safety reasons,
351-591: The latter by naming it a tramway rather than a railway . In the process, Premier James Mitchell was asked why work on the parliament-approved Dwarda to Narrogin railway had been stopped while work on the un-approved tramway continued. Mitchell was questioned by parliament on the details of the Baldivis Tramway, to which he replied that, by the end of August 1922, 20 miles (32 km) of track and spurs were in place, of 24 miles (39 km) laid overall, as some spurs had been removed again, at an overall cost of almost £40,000. Mitchell declared that parliament's approval
378-471: The public highway, sharing with other road users. Initially horse-drawn, they were developed to use electric power from an overhead line . A development of the tramway in the United Kingdom was the trolleybus , which dispensed with tracks but drew electricity from overhead wires . Between 2001 and 2020, two trams built to carry automotive parts (the " CarGoTram ") operated in Dresden , Germany between
405-520: The requirements placed on them by Parliament became more and more stringent. See rail tracks . These restrictions were excessive for the small mineral lines and it became possible in the United Kingdom for them to be categorised as light railways subject to certain provisos laid down by the Light Railways Act 1896 . Meanwhile, in the United Kingdom the term tramway became the term for passenger vehicles (a tram ) that ran on tracks in
432-738: The responsibility of the state government of Western Australia. The management and cost of the Peel Estate Group Settlement Scheme were eventually subject of a Royal Commission , which was appointed in December 1923 and presented its report in March 1924, making five recommendations. Construction of the tramway started in October 1920, alongside the construction of a drainage system, the Peel Main Drain , for
459-503: The shaft of a wheelbarrow—in turn from Low German traam , meaning a beam. The tracks themselves were sometimes known as gangways , dating from before the 12th century, being usually simply planks laid upon the ground literally "going road". In south Wales and Somerset the term "dramway" is also used, with vehicles being called drams. An alternative term, " wagonway " (and wainway or waggonway), originally consisted of horses, equipment and tracks used for hauling wagons. Usually
486-448: The suburb of Wellard . The Tramway Reserve stretching from just north of 6 Mile Site to 13 Mile site is also heritage listed. Baldivis Tramway Reserve, in the suburb of Beeliar , is also heritage listed. Tramway (industrial) Tramways are lightly laid industrial railways , often not intended to be permanent. Originally, rolling stock could be pushed by humans, pulled by animals (especially horses and mules), cable-hauled by
513-516: The term was widely used in connection with logging, no longer extant. Today in the state of Queensland , however, there remain several thousand kilometres of sugar-cane tramways . Passengers do not generally travel aboard tramways, although employees sometimes use them, either officially or unofficially. The term was originally applied to wagons running on primitive tracks in mediaeval Great Britain and Europe . The name seems to date from about 1517 and to be derived from an English dialect word for
540-656: The tramway or Peel Estate tramway. The report of the Royal Commission also referred to it as the tramway. Modern sources – such as the Western Australian Heritage Register , or the management plans for the walk trails that follow the former line – refer to the Baldivis Tramway Reserve. The Peel Estate was a 60,000-acre (24,000 ha) area of land, predominantly located in what
567-424: The wheels would be guided along grooves. In time, to combat wear, the timber would be reinforced with an iron strip covering. This developed to use L-shaped steel plates, the track then being known as a plateway . An alternative appeared in 1789, the so-called " edge-rail ", which allowed wagons to be guided by having the wheels flanged instead of running, flangeless, in grooves. Since these rails were raised above
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#1732791547651594-501: Was designed to transport supplies to the settlement scheme and to carry harvested timber on the return journey. Historical newspaper sources quote no definite name for the Baldivis tramway. The suburb of Baldivis was only named in 1922; the name was coined by local settlers, combining parts of the names of the three ships that brought them to Western Australia, post-dating the original line. Contemporary newspaper source referred to it as
621-465: Was not required as it was a temporary operation for development purposes. The tramway operated as a goods-only service, with no passenger cars, using WAGR G class locomotives on a 3 ft 6 in gauge with a ruling gradient of 1 in 30. By the time the Royal Commission presented its report in March 1924, £57,579 had been spend on the 30 miles (48 km) of tramway having been laid, of which 4 miles (6.4 km) had already been pulled up again. This sum
648-399: Was only required during the engineering works, which had been completed. Despite its short existence, the tramway has left a legacy of a mostly intact and continuous 32-kilometre (20 mi) north-south running reserve from the eastern shore of Yangebup Lake , where the northern terminus of the line was located, to Baldivis, referred to in parts as the Baldivis Tramway Reserve. The tramway
675-401: Was part of the wider expense of the Peel Estate settlement scheme, which was estimated to have cost £1.25 million and is comparably lower than the sum of £230,000 spend on the drainage system and £90,000 spend on road construction up to 31 December 1923. In August 1925, the tramway was pulled up and dismantled, with the explanation provided by the Minister of Lands that the installation
702-4868: Was still a British colony and had not yet achieved responsible government . Except for a brief period between 2001 and 2003, it has existed in every government since then. The minister is currently responsible for the state government's Land Use Management division comprising part of the Department of Planning, Lands and Heritage , which is responsible for the management of crown land in Western Australia. Titles [ edit ] 18 December 1870 – 27 May 1901: Commissioner of Crown Lands 27 May 1901 – 25 February 1983: Minister for Lands 25 February 1983 – 25 February 1986: Minister for Lands and Surveys 25 February 1986 – 16 February 2001: Minister for Lands 27 June 2003 – 23 September 2008: Minister for Land Information 23 September 2008 – present: Minister for Lands List of ministers [ edit ] Term start Term end Minister Party 18 December 1870 9 April 1883 Malcolm Fraser None 10 July 1883 9 June 1887 John Forrest None 9 June 1887 4 January 1888 J. C. H. James None 6 March 1888 21 October 1890 John Forrest (again) None 29 December 1890 4 December 1894 William Marmion None 4 December 1894 13 March 1897 Alexander Richardson Ministerial 13 March 1897 14 February 1901 George Throssell Ministerial 15 February 1901 27 May 1901 Charles Moran Ministerial 27 May 1901 21 November 1901 Charles Sommers Ministerial 21 November 1901 23 December 1901 John Nanson Ministerial 23 December 1901 23 January 1903 Adam Jameson Ministerial 23 January 1903 10 August 1904 John Hopkins Ministerial 10 August 1904 7 June 1905 John Drew Independent 7 June 1905 25 August 1905 Thomas Bath Labor 25 August 1905 30 June 1909 Newton Moore Ministerial 30 June 1909 7 October 1911 James Mitchell Ministerial 17 October 1911 23 November 1914 Thomas Bath (again) Labor 23 November 1914 27 July 1916 William Johnson Labor 27 July 1916 17 April 1919 Henry Lefroy Lib. / Nat. 17 April 1919 15 April 1924 James Mitchell (again) Nationalist 16 April 1924 30 April 1927 William Angwin Labor 30 April 1927 23 April 1930 Frank Troy Labor 24 April 1930 24 April 1933 Charles Latham Country 24 April 1933 15 March 1939 Frank Troy (again) Labor 15 March 1939 3 August 1945 Frank Wise Labor 3 August 1945 1 April 1947 Alexander Panton Labor 1 April 1947 23 February 1953 Lindsay Thorn Country 23 February 1953 17 December 1957 Ernest Hoar Labor 17 December 1957 2 April 1959 Lionel Kelly Labor 2 April 1959 3 March 1971 Stewart Bovell Liberal 3 March 1971 8 April 1974 David Evans Labor 8 April 1974 10 March 1977 Alan Ridge Liberal 10 March 1977 25 August 1978 June Craig Liberal 25 August 1978 25 January 1982 David Wordsworth Liberal 25 January 1982 25 February 1983 Ian Laurance Liberal 25 February 1983 25 February 1986 Ken McIver Labor 25 February 1986 16 March 1987 Ian Taylor Labor 16 March 1987 25 February 1988 Keith Wilson Labor 25 February 1988 28 February 1989 Yvonne Henderson Labor 28 February 1989 5 February 1991 Kay Hallahan Labor 5 February 1991 16 February 1993 David Smith Labor 16 February 1993 26 April 1996 George Cash Liberal 26 April 1996 9 January 1997 Graham Kierath Liberal 9 January 1997 16 February 2001 Doug Shave Liberal 22 December 1999 16 February 2001 Rob Johnson Liberal 2001–2003: no minister – responsibilities held by
729-578: Was utilised by the Millars Timber & Co Trading Company for its timber transports, with the timber and railway heritage preserved in the name of the Millars Landing housing estate in Baldivis. Parts of the Baldivis Tramway Reserve have been converted to walking tracks and proposals have been made to open additional sections. A number of heritage listed sites associated with the former tramway remain. The 6 Mile Site takes its name from
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