File:Firewood train on Goondah-Burrinjuck line, State Library of South Australia, PRG 2801749.jpeg

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English: Krauss locomotive hauls a firewood train on the narrow gauge railway (2 foot) to Burrinjuck Dam in New South Wales in Australia. The track was laid from Goondah (a station on the Great Southern Railway, west of Yass) to Burrinjuck in 1907-1908. The line was inaugurated in June 1908. It was used to haul cement, firewood, construction materials, food supplies and passengers to Burrinjuck, where a power station, located near the dam site, was being constructed. Some 80,200 tons of firewood was consumed for this purpose, between 1909 and 1928. The railway was 26 mile 26 chains (42.2 km) long; the rails were taken up in April 1929. The locomotive is one of the four German-built Krauss steam locomotives, purchased by the Department of Public Works, NSW, for the construction project.
Date Probably 1908-1916, After this time the locomotives' builders' plates were removed as a result of the anti-German feelings which built up during The Great War.
Source State Library of South Australia, PRG 2801749
Author Historic photography

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