Moreton Bay Tramway Company

• Coote,
• Stephens,
• Buckley.

• Abraham Fitzgibbon engineer, who was assistant to William Doyne on the Dun Mountain Tramway in Nelson, New Zealand.

It had been proposed to fund it as a Land Grant Railway.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5713203 |title=Advertising. |newspaper=The Argus |location=Melbourne |date=11 April 1862 |access-date=4 September 2012 |page=3 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}

The tramway was intended to be operated by horses.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5713203 |title=Advertising. |newspaper=The Argus |location=Melbourne |date=11 April 1862 |access-date=4 September 2012 |page=3 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}

• {{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3167740 |title=The Courier. |newspaper=The Courier (Brisbane) |volume=XVIII |issue=1826 |location=Queensland, Australia |date=31 December 1863 |access-date=30 March 2021 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}

The later railway along the route of the tramway has ruling gradients of 1 in 50. This might be rather steep for horse operation, unless unloaded in uphill direction.

The line was originally to use {{convert|35|lb/yd|kg/m}} rail.

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.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3718662 |title=Classified Advertising. |newspaper=The Moreton Bay Courier |location=Brisbane |date=17 April 1860 |access-date=5 September 2012 |page=3 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
• April – An early mention of the constructing firm of Moreton, Peto and Brassey.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13039775 |title=Colonial Parliament. |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=25 April 1860 |access-date=5 September 2012 |page=5 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
• November – An advertisement for the company's prospectus in a Sydney newspaper.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18678944 |title=Sydney News. |newspaper=The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser |location=NSW |date=8 November 1860 |access-date=6 September 2012 |page=3 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
• November – An advertisement for the company's prospectus in a Brisbane paper.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3725738 |title=Classified Advertising. |newspaper=The Moreton Bay Courier |location=Brisbane |date=10 November 1860 |access-date=6 September 2012 |page=1 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}

• April – coal deposits reported next to the proposed route.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5712880 |title=Advertising. |newspaper=The Argus |location=Melbourne |date=5 April 1862 |access-date=5 September 2012 |page=3 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
• 29 May – Tramway assets taken over by Government.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article77290928 |title=Latest Intelligence. |newspaper=North Australian and Queensland General Advertiser |location=Ipswich, Qld. |date=29 May 1862 |access-date=4 September 2012 |page=2 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article77290928 |title=Latest Intelligence. |newspaper=North Australian and Queensland General Advertiser |location=Ipswich, Qld. |date=29 May 1862 |access-date=7 September 2012 |page=2 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}

• Insolvent Court{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8814105 |title=Queensland. |newspaper=The Mercury |location=Hobart, Tas. |date=2 January 1863 |access-date=4 September 2012 |page=3 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
• 9 May – the Government Railways Bill repeals the Tramway Act, except for court actions already in action.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3163211 |title=The Government Railway Bill. |newspaper=The Courier (Brisbane) |location=Brisbane |date=9 May 1863 |access-date=7 September 2012 |page=3 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
• 20 August – Railway Bill in parliament{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article75511135 |title=The Railway Bill. |newspaper=The Darling Downs Gazette and General Advertiser |location=Toowoomba, Qld. |date=20 August 1863 |access-date=10 September 2012 |page=2 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}

• 29 March 1865 – three large shareholder taken to Supreme Court for not paying calls on contributing shares.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8831911 |title=Queensland. |newspaper=The Mercury |location=Hobart, Tas. |date=29 March 1865 |access-date=8 September 2012 |page=3 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}

The three are:

• Coote,
• Stephens,
• Buckley.

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