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    The North Mount Lyell Railway was built to operate between the North Mount Lyell mine in West Coast Tasmania and Pillinger in the Kelly Basin of Macquarie...
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  • North Mount Lyell was the name of a mine, mining company, locality (sometimes as North Lyell) and former railway north of Gormanston on the southern slopes...
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  • Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company was a Tasmanian mining company formed on 29 March 1893, most commonly referred to as Mount Lyell. Mount Lyell was...
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  • The North Mount Lyell disaster (also known as the Mount Lyell disaster and North Mount Lyell fire) refers to a fire that broke out on 12 October 1912 at...
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    Linda, Tasmania (category North Mount Lyell Railway)
    site of North Lyell town, blasted away to form the modern open cut". When North Mount Lyell was taken over by Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company in...
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    The West Coast Wilderness Railway is a reconstruction of the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company Mount Lyell railway in Western Tasmania between Queenstown...
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  • Darwin, Tasmania (category North Mount Lyell Railway)
    the eastern side of Mount Darwin on the West Coast Range. It was the location of a stopping place on the North Mount Lyell Railway which ran between Pillinger...
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  • Gormanston, Tasmania (category North Mount Lyell Railway)
    became the location of the short lived terminus of the North Mount Lyell Railway at Gormanston railway station before it closed. It may have been named in...
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    Linda Valley (category North Mount Lyell Railway)
    terminus of the North Mount Lyell Railway was at Gormanston for a short time, the main point of operations for the railway was the yard and railway station at...
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  • Kimberley region Mount Lyell (Canada), on the Alberta–British Columbia boundary 1912 North Mount Lyell disaster Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company, Tasmania...
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  • Pillinger, Tasmania (category North Mount Lyell Railway)
    James Crotty's North Mount Lyell mining company to ship ore from the North Mount Lyell mine, utilising the North Mount Lyell Railway that took the ore...
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  • James Crotty (prospector) (category Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company)
    and the failure of the North Mount Lyell smelters at Crotty his company was amalgamated with the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company in 1903. His estate...
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  • Government Railways and opened on 6 March 1902. The Mount Lyell Comstock Tram - at Mount Lyell was a tramway from the main area of the Mount Lyell mine works...
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  • Crotty, Tasmania (category North Mount Lyell Railway)
    century, the township had had a smelter and railway connection with the North Mount Lyell mine. The North Mount Lyell smelters failed, despite attempts in 1901...
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  • Gormanston railway station was a short lived railway station in Gormanston, Tasmania at the highest location on the North Mount Lyell Railway. It was situated...
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    Kelly Basin (category North Mount Lyell Railway)
    Tasmanian coastline. It was the location of the terminus of the North Mount Lyell Railway and the town of Pillinger. In the late 1890s, when John Watt Beattie...
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  • originally published in 1954. It contains the history of the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company, and through association, Queenstown and further the...
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  • terrain in which the railways were created, and the unique nature of most of the lines. Points of note include the Mount Lyell rack railway which has an Abt...
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    housing in Queenstown and threatened the North Mount Lyell Railway. By the early twentieth century, the slopes of Mount Owen were denuded and had limited remnant...
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    King River (Tasmania) (category Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company)
    River valley was first surveyed for damming in 1917 by the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company. The river is impounded by the Crotty Dam to form Lake...
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    Regatta Point, Tasmania (category Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company)
    explosives for the Mount Lyell company occurred as late as 1976. It was the port and terminus of the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company railway line from Queenstown...
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  • the three Avonside Engine Company 4-6-0 engines built for the North Mount Lyell Railway are attributed in design to Jones Jones retired in 1896, after...
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    Range, into Macquarie Harbour in Western Tasmania, Australia. The North Mount Lyell Railway had to cross the river before reaching Pillinger and the harbour...
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    They did not traverse the range. North Mount Lyell Railway - port was at Pillinger in Kelly Basin Mount Lyell Railway - port was at Regatta Point Similarly...
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    North Mount Lyell Railway between Gormanston and Kelly Basin. It inundates the former Kelly Basin Road which was the subsequent name for the railway line...
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  • supporter of Charles Darwin. Mount Lyell was also the common short name of the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company. The Mount Lyell company operations centred...
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  • railways from Hobart to the west. The Great Western Railway Company, promoted in Melbourne, planned an electric railway from Glenora to Mount Lyell and...
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    forested terrain. It is east of the West Coast Range and the former North Mount Lyell Railway formation. The crater was discovered by the geologist R. J. Ford...
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  • South Australian Railways Emu Bay Railway Launceston and Western Railway Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company North Mount Lyell Railway Tasmanian Main...
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    Queenstown, Tasmania (category Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company)
    began searching for copper. The final name of the Mount Lyell company was the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company. Early in 1895 a Post Office was opened...
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