 Later many of the proponents of this inland railway, felt somewhat deceived when the actual 'surveyed route' acquired so much of their fertile land, (up to 50 yards on either side of the line), and did not pass within a mile of the Almurta township.due to the gradients of the land.With petitions to Parlament, and requests to the shire engineer to independently survey the route, and take it through the cheaper hills where the land was only worth £5 per acre, rather than the flat lands worth up to £40 per acre.