Grubb's Tramway (Mowbray)

Grubb's Tramway was a partially completed, private logging tram line in Tasmania from the junction of the Launceston-George Town Road at the Tamar River near Mowbray to a saw mill at Pipers River.

In March 1832 he emigrated to Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania).

He built a saw mill at Pipers River in partnership with William Tyson.

[2] A private Act was passed in 1855 to permit the building of a tramway from the junction of the Launceston-George Town Road at Mowbray to the saw mill at Pipers River, but before the line was completed the timber market had declined and the project did not succeed.

However, his New Native Youth and Tasmania gold mines were profitable and appear to have compensated largely for his losses in other directions.

William Dawson Grubb (1817–1879)