Mayford spur track, victorian high country.

Raymond have you been to the Mayford 'town' site?

Hi Matt
Yes I have had the pleasure of camping at Mayford. We came into Mayford on Kings Spur Track, which at that time was a medium 4WD track. The township which was developed in 1863 is all gone, only the cleared area and the fact that there are English trees and fruit trees tells you of the towns exsistance. Michelle may have a book in her exploreoz bookshop on the area. It was a beautiful area to camp. The old Mayford Track is impressive, and one wonders how the original pioneers ever got down it. Several of the tracks in the high country had huge blocks and tackle to lower the cart down the hill
Ray

Raymond it always amazes me these tracks the pioneers built. How they built them, and what gear they would have used. There appears to be little history done on these tracks. Actually, I don't know I have seen any. I am interested in Crawford & Co; which was the coach company in North East of Victoria, and have been looking for the coach routes. I am amazed at some of the tracks they used to take coaches up and down. It interests me how they braked the coaches. Unfortunatly, there is no work to my knowledge on Crawford & Co. The coach routes followed the gold discoveries, and it is a pity that to my knowledge no work had been done on Crawford & Co; as so much has been done on Cobb & Co, but Cobb & Co. did not run in North Eastern Victoria. I believe Hiram Crawford was a personal friend of Cobb, and that is why Cobb left Eastern Victoria predominantly to Crawford. I travel extensively around East Vic looking for gold mining history etc. Have 4WD, 250cc off -road motorcycle and two good feet to work when I cannot drive to places.

Thank you for the information Ray, I will go for a walk up it next time & check it out.

I met a camper at Mayford & they told me a yarn that when they were developing a turbo charger kit for the 60 series, they used the hill to test it out, travelling up & down a number of times & would hold it in low second all the way to the top.

I did hear some stories obout rollovers as well, there is a plaque on a rock to remember some people that were killed, it must have been a challenge!

matt

Hi Ozi,, I would like to see that map...

voxson@bigpond.net.au

yea Id like a copy too!
td42t AT optusnet DOT com DOT au

It doesnt look that bad to me!

thanks ozi

G'day Ozi, not to late for a picture is it ? purcyspage@hotmail.com