were loaded per week. Wet weather and the outbreak of World War I put the B.A.T. Co. into financial difficulties, because the orders from Germany, Japan, South Africa and the United Kingdom could not be placed with them anymore. The operation ceased in 1914 and most assets were sold in November and December 1916. Locomotive B.A.T. Co. purchased a used 12 t steam locomotive, which Lewis Thomas had previously used on his 3 km (2 mi) longe industrial railway from Aberdare Colliery in Blackstone to the station of the government railways in Bundamba near Ipswich in Queensland. It had been built in 1886 with works number 205 by Murray & Paterson in Coatbridge, Scotland. Its saddletank was inversely curved as in contemporary Andrew Barclay locomotives but differently to most other saddle tank locomotives. It arrived on 13 July 1907 in an operable condition at Woolgoolga Jetty. According to other sources, the locomotive has been purchased in 1908, and was finally transferred to the Boambee Tramway. Decline and closure The operation ceased in September 1914, and in November and December 1916 the assets were sold after the sister company in Coffs Harbour had burned-down. Preserved relics A loaded rail car is exhibited at 73 Turon Parade, Woolgoolga in front of Woolgoolga Art Gallery on a 3 long piece of railway track. Plates 7 and 8 of the Woolgoolga Heritage Walk describe the tramway. A 65 t log of a blue gum tree was exhibited from 1990 to at least 2014 at the former Clouton & Blacker Mill in 1670 Solitary Islands Way, Woolgoolga. Cultural heritage The tramway is not listed in the heritage register or on the heritage schedule of the Coffs Harbour local environmental plan of Coffs Harbour, although it represents the social and economic history of the region. Additional literature The Tramways of Woolgoolga, The British Australian Timber Company. Australian Railway History Society, ARHS Bn No. 94, August 1945. N. Yeates: Woolgoolga - The History of a Village, North Coast, N.S.W. Advocate-Opinion Press, Coffs Harbour, 1982. J. Longworth The Jetty and Sawmill Tramways of Woolgoolga. Australian Railway History Society, ARHS Bn No. 832, Februar 2007. See also British Australian Tramway, Coffs Harbour References 3 ft 6 in gauge railways in Australia History of rail transport in Australia 1907 establishments in Australia Railway companies established in 1907 Railway companies disestablished in 1916