When the original Mount Lyell railway line was being built, it was the location of some significant landslips.[1] In the time of operations of the Mount Lyell railway landslips continued.[2][3][4]
In the event of wildfires in the adjacent district, with little to prevent fires affecting the railway line and Rinadeena structures, losses were inevitable in the past.[5]
It is the highest point on the railway line, with Abt mechanisms on the steam locomotives required from either side of operations.[7][8]
The Abt fittings on the track proceed upward from Hall's Creek on the Queenstown side, and from Rinadeens downward to Dubbil Barril on the Regatta Point side.[9]
↑ "WESTERN NEWS". Launceston Examiner. Vol.LIX, no.215. Tasmania, Australia. 8 September 1899. p.6. Retrieved 2 June 2016– via National Library of Australia.
↑ "ISOLATED TOWN". Recorder. No.9, 107. South Australia. 19 July 1928. p.4. Retrieved 3 June 2016– via National Library of Australia.
↑ "DEVELOPMENT OF THE WEST COAST". The Mercury. Vol.CXLVII, no.20, 882. Tasmania. 28 October 1937. p.12. Retrieved 3 June 2016– via National Library of Australia. – note photograph of rinadeena railway track in right hand side of view, photo by W J Rowlands
↑ West Coast Wilderness Railway (Tas.) (2008), Abt system, West Coast Wilderness Railway, retrieved 12 June 2016
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The Lyell Highway is a highway in Tasmania, running from Hobart to Queenstown. It is the one of two transport routes that passes through the West Coast Range, the other being the B28 Anthony Road.
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 the dominant copper mining company of the West Coast from 1893 to 1994, and was based in Queenstown, Tasmania.
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The term Mount Lyell Railway was one of the terms used for the railway operated by the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company between 1899 and 1963.
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