Abraham Baxter

From Engineering Heritage Western Australia


BAXTER, Abraham, (1844-1923)

With Prince, Baxter won the contract to build the Eastern Railway Deviations Nos. 3, 6, and 9 in 1894, and the Cue section of the Mullewa to Murchison Railway in 1896.

With Sadler, he built Section No.2 of the Gympie to Gladstone Railway in Queensland in 1895.


References:
GG 1894 p157; 1896 p28.
Kerr, John, Triumph of the narrow gauge, a history of Queensland Railways. Boolarong Publications, Brisbane, 1990, p86.
The following image is from "The Barrier Miner", 7th July, 1923.

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