Once the steelwork reached track level at the Lethbridge end, it was possible to begin using a huge travelling crane called an " erection traveller ".
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The engine shed closed in 1909 due to the higher water rates imposed by Nottingham City, with locomotives moved to the larger travelling cranes in England; it was electrically driven with a span of, a headroom of and capable of lifting a full load of 25 tons at a rate of 5 feet per minute.
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Between mid-1883 and late 1884, planing and dressing machinery to work soft timbers such as pine, cedar and beech were acquired; the Eucalypta, an long steamer, was built for Burnett to transport cypress pine from the Moreton Bay islands ( Coomera and Logan River districts to his mill, the timber being unloaded at Hilliards Creek; a wharf with a large overhead travelling crane was erected on the creek about 300 yards below the mill buildings; a tramway was laid to transport logs from the wharf to the mill ( in 1885 the tramway was extended about three-quarters of a mile to give direct access to the bay ); and an 8-ton boiler was installed to generate the steam to drive the horizontal saw, circular saws, planning machines and lathes, which could produce 40, 000 feet of dressed timber a week.
