Tullah, Tasmania

A town in the northern part of the West Coast Range on the shores of Lake Rosebery, Tullah was originally a mining town called Mount Farrell. Tullah was later used as a hydro-electric power scheme construction town during the making of the Pieman Scheme, but is now mainly a community at the edge of the Pieman River Dam and a fishing location.
Following the discovery of silver lead ore in 1897 by Josiah Innes, Tullah was established as a small mining town in 1900. Until 1909, the only way you could get into Tullah was by horse or foot. It was then serviced by the Wee Georgie Wood Railway under its earlier name of the North Farrell Tramway, prior to adequate roads being built into the area.
The locomotive Wee Georgie Wood has been salvaged and returned to operation on a short length of track on the Murchison Highway, along with some rolling stock. The track is a two-foot (610 mm) gauge, standard at the time. Tullah features in the novel "The Sound of One Hand Clapping" by Richard Flanagan, published in 1997.
How to get there: 111 km south of Burnie on the Murchison Highway.