The Moreton Bay Tramroad Company was a private enterprise attempt to establish railways in the new colony of Queensland. It was stillborn.
Coote,
Stephens,
Buckley.
Land Grant Railway
It had been proposed to fund it as a Land Grant Railway.
The tramway was intended to be operated by horses.
The later railway along the route of the tramway has ruling gradients of 1 in 50. This might be rather steep for horse operation.
The Tramway company is sometimes called a Tramroad.
Queensland separated from New South Wales on 6 June 1859. Some very preliminary railway plans had been prepared by the New South Wales Government which were handed over to the new Queensland Government.
April – An early mention in a political platform of the need for railways or tramways in Queensland.
April – An early mention of the constructing firm of Moreton, Peto and Brassey.
November – An advertisement for the company's propectus in a Sydney newspaper.
November – An advertisement for the company's prospectus in a Brisbane paper.
April – coal deposits reported next to the proposed route.
29 May – Tramway assets taken over by Government.
Insolvent Court
9 May – the Government Railways Bill repeals the Tramway Act, except for court actions already in action.
20 August – Railway Bill in parliament
29 March 1865 – three large shareholder taken to Supreme Court for not paying calls on contributing shares.
The three are:
Coote,
Stephens,
Buckley.
