M. C. Davies Karri & Jarrah Co Ltd 0-4-0WT No. 'Kate'
Margaret River, Western Australia, Australia 		Location: Rotary Park
Status: Display
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Posted: Jul 19, 2018 @ 13:07:29 by Robin R Beck
When the company purchased Kate to work at their Karridale saw mill the company was exporting a third of all the timber from Western Australia. The growth of timber companies & fluctuations in demand caused an amalgamation in 1902 of various timber companies, becoming Millars Karri & Jarrah Co Ltd. Davies original saw mills slowly closed until the last closed in 1913. Kate was transferred to Jarrahdale in 1907 to work the timber tramways there.

In 1917 she was sold to the Public Works Department and moved to Wyndham, working at the jetty, hauling all the cargo shipped at the port. Not sure when finally withdrawn. In 1964 she was obtained by the Rotary Club at Margaret River. Now housed in a weather proof shed in a park just out of town, alongside the main road. You have to know the locomotive is there, as it not visible from the road. See the album photos for this.

One of the builders plates is on view at Bassendean Railway Museum.