Following Rod Milne's article (LR237) on the Westralia Timber & Firewood Company's (WTFC) tramways and the Beyer Peacock designed G class 2-6-0 locomotives which worked on them, this article looks at a similar operation in Victoria. The WTFC was not the only Company operating tramways on Western Australia's eastern goldfields for the purpose of supplying firewood and mining timber. An even bigger operation was West Australian Goldfields Firewood Supply Ltd (WAGFS), for whom G class 2-6-0s provided the mainstay of its locomotive fleet, a total of 13 having been used by them.
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