The British Australian Tramway was a long logging railway with a gauge of in Coffs Harbour in the Australian state New South Wales, which operated from 1907 to 1914. Set-up and construction The British Australian Timber Company (BAT Co) was founded in 1906 as a subsidiary of Dalgety Holdings. It purchased in October 1906 a sawmill, which had been set-up in 1903 by George W. Nichols. The deal included machinery and equipment, as well as 2.2 hectares (5.5 acres) of land in Woolgoolga and three log harvesting contracts of 3,500 pounds plus two more sawmills in Woolgoolga and south of it. In 1907 BAT Co applied for permission to build a forest railway for the transport of logs to the sawmill and began in the same year, shortly after obtaining the approval, with the construction track. BAT Co laid steel rails weighing 17.4 kg/m (35 lb/yd) onto wooden sleepers made of locally harvested and sawn hardwood. The construction cost was 1500 pounds per mile. The line was roughly built, because sharp corners remained at the rail joints, to save construction costs. The on the ballast consisted of rock or sand. During the construction William Norton died on February 5, 1909, while felling a tree. Route From June 1910, the track was laid and in the course of the work, a branch to the jetty was built. For the loading of logs, wooden ramps and steam-powered winches were built along the route. Two round trips per day were carried out transporting six logs per train. The logging railroad began at the Coffs Harbor jetty, crossed Coffs Creek on a wooden bridge and then ran to Macaulay's Headland, where the first lumberyard was located. As the track was upgraded, the route was extended from Macaulay Headland climbing up the slope to Bruxner Park until the turnoff to Sealy Park Lookout. There it had radii of more than 40 m (2 chain) and a gradient of 4% (1 in 25). The logging railway turned right before reaching the lumberyard on the top of the hill. Locomotives The first steam locomotive was procured second-hand in Tasmania in 1904. Originally, it was a 4-6-0 type with two non-driven leading axles and three coupled drive axles before the BAT had one drive axle removed during a conversion so that it had the 4-4-0 wheel arrangement. The locomotive coped well with the journey over Macaulay's Headland, but