Gravel Road is a hard-working, yet down-at-heel 2ft-gauge tramway, bringing gravel for road-making and industrial purposes from a nearby quarry to unloading staithes close to the main highway.
Road trucks back in under the staithes, and the gravel is dropped from the tramway's sturdy 'home-engineered' hopper cars.
The two diesel locos are second-hand former Queensland sugar cane motive power that has seen better days, and the rolling stock consists of four hopper cars and a single per-way flat car.
Buildings are few, and utilitarian - a single road engine shed built from corrugated steel (also second hand), a small weatherboard yard office and the timber-framed staithes.
The only real concession to a 'corporate brand' is that the engine shed and yard office are both painted in the same colours - green for walls and red for roofs.
There's also a small Shell fuel tank - positioned just outside the engine shed - to fuel the locos.
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