Brownlee Tramway (Marlborough)

The tramway was built to 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) gauge, and to a comparatively high standard for the possibility of a government takeover to form a line to Nelson.

Carluke, a sawmill and settlement near Rai Valley township (named after the Scottish town in which the Brownlee family hailed from) was where the main line began.

The formation from here now mostly forms part of State Highway 6 until where it crossed the Wakamarina River at Canvastown.

[7] When the native forest milling rights ran out around the Rai Valley, Brownlee's moved to the West Coast, based in Ruru.

William Brownlee was one of the main shareholders of the Lake Brunner Sawmilling Company, and later bought the remaining shares out.