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.
North Mount Lyell Railway Avonside 4-6-0 No. 1 "J. Crotty" at Kelly Basin, circa 1900
Locomotive No. 2 J.P. Lonergan
Kelly Basin Road
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Kelly Basin Road was a road built on the formation of the former North Mount Lyell railway line in the King River Valley of Western Tasmania. It ran to the east of the West Coast Range, from the Linda
North Mount Lyell railway line
…between the Linda Valley and the old locality of Darwin is now under water. The railway formation between Mount Owen and Mount Jukes was known as the Kelly Basin Road during the No Dams campaign of December 1982 – and was a location of interaction between members of the Tasmanian Police and protesters. Considerable…
Kelly Basin Road in the 1970s