This article examines a 19th century Tweed River sugar tramway company that was located in the Northern Rivers region of NSW. The 1882 Robb & Co mill and its later wharf and tramway almost did not eventuate as the Colonial Sugar Refining Company (CSR) was in discussions with the Cudgen farmers some years earlier. These 1879 discussions even included a possible CSR Cudgen tramway. Robb & Co's 1882 mill purchase was actually quite brave, considering CSR, one of the more wealthier companies in Australia, opened its own Condong sugar mill in 1880, two years earlier, only 18 km up the same river!!
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