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The Darwin Dam is an offstream earthfill embankment saddle dam, located in Western Tasmania, Australia. The impounded reservoir, formed by Crotty Dam and the Darwin Dam, is called Lake Burbury.
An aerial view of the Darwin Dam, at the southern end of Lake Burbury
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 Harbour.
Darwin Dam
…the west of the dam wall. Both locations draw their names from the railway stopping place and the ghost town site of Darwin that was situated on the 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 formation. In the 1910s…
North Mount Lyell Railway Avonside 4-6-0 No. 1 "J. Crotty" at Kelly Basin, circa 1900
Locomotive No. 2 J.P. Lonergan