Light Railways

Nos 251 to 275

October 2016 to October 2020

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No. 275 October 2020:

Tasmanian Main Line Railway - part 2 (Tas)
Henry’s locomotive operation at Forrest – 1921 (Vic)
Yallourn, the early years – part 2 (Vic)
Industrial Railway News - 15 items from around Australia and Fiji
Letters - Briseis Tin Mining Company locomotive;Puffing Billy Railway Museum at Menzies Creek (LR273); Milang - its jetty and tramways (LR250); Locomotives at Osborne Park, WA in 2012; Early internal combustion locomotives in Australia (LR272); Ida Bay photographs (LR 274); Maryvale Locomotive (LR272 & 274); Copper, Platinum, Gold and Lime: The mines and tramways of Coopers Creek, Victoria (LR 274)
Book Review - Timber - Trains - Turmoil: A History of Buderim and its Tramway

Field Reports - Pipemakers Park, Maribyrnong (Vic) 710 mm gauge; Lifeboat slipway, Port Fairy, (Vic). Gauge 1205 mm; Mount Wells tin mine, Pine Creek, NT. Gauge unknown

Heritage & Tourist News - 12 items from Australia

Back cover photos: South Maitland Railway

No. 274 August 2020:

Of Boxer and Bruiser...Tiger and Trooper - Horse haulage in coal mines (NSW)
Copper, Platinum, Gold and Lime - The mines and tramways of Coopers Creek (Vic)
Book Review - Beneath the Peak of Lyell
Industrial Railway News - 17 items from around Australia
Letters - Rails to Woomera (LR271); AA Company nameplate, Newcastle (LR272); Caribbean Gardens railway (LR 273); Henry Vale industrial locomotives – an overview (LR273); Early internal combustion locomotives in Australia (LR272); Maryvale Locomotive (H&T report LR272); Victorian Goldfields Railway (LR272); Lune River railway (H&T LR273)
Heritage & Tourist News - 8 items from Australia and New Zealand
Back cover photos: Ida Bay Railway in 1964

No. 273 June 2020:

Henry Vale’s industrial locomotives: an overview (NSW)
Another Warburton timber man (Vic)
Red Shoes revisited (SA)
Dumont d’Urville base, Terre Adélie, Antarctica
Industrial Railway News - 11 items from around Australia and Fiji
Letters - Editorial (LR271);Rails to Woomera (LR271); Rails to Woomera and other observations (LR271); Tasmanian Main Line Railway (LR272); Moonta In The 1890s (LR268); Looking Back (LR266); Early internal combustion locomotives in Australia (LR272); H&T report on the Timbertown railway (LR272)
Tour Report - Munro's tramways visit, 7 March 2020 (Qld)
Field Reports - Southeast Gippsland (Victoria) site survey (Vic)
Heritage & Tourist News - 14 items from Australia and New Zealand
Geelong Steam Preservation Society 50 years (Vic)
Puffing Billy Railway Museum at Menzies Creek (Vic)
Back cover photos: Caribbean Gardens railway

No. 272 April 2020:

Early internal-combustion locomotives in Australia
Tasmanian Main Line Railway (Tas).Part 1: Early history and the Fox Walker locomotives
Looking back - Going bananas in North Queensland (Qld)
Garratt locomotive at Colac, Victoria - 1935. An assessment by officers from Fyansford Cement Works
Industrial Railway News - 13 items from around Australia and Fiji
Letters - Sleeping on a volcano (LR270); WA Incident to a Geared Bush Locomotive 1918; AA Company nameplate, Newcastle; Krauss locomotives in Australia (LR153); Rails to Woomera (LR271); The Bellingen Timber Company and the Gleniffer Incline Tramway (LR271); Research Register - Editorial (LR269) and Letters (LR271)
Field Reports - Fitzpatrick Brothers’ tramway, Boggy Creek, Healesville (Vic); West Head lookout munitions tramways, Pittwater (NSW)
Heritage & Tourist News - 16 items from Australia, New Zealand and UK
Back cover photos: Krauss 10 and tandem Gemco locos, Mt Lyell (Tas)

No. 271 February 2020:

The Bellingen Timber Company and the Gleniffer Incline Tramway (NSW)
Rails to Woomera (SA)
Industrial Railway News - 20 items from around Australia and Fiji
Letter - The Ring River bridge disaster (LR269); Current light rail operations in Fiji; Research register - Editorial (LR 269); Weston Langford photos of Queensland cane locomotives (back page LR269); Beaconsfield Tramway (LR269); Heritage & Tourist News (LR270); The Neilson twins (LR208 & 212)
Tour Reports - Tour of Morts Dock Historic Site, Balmain, Sydney (NSW); Maldon Tour, Central Victoria (Vic); Tour of Woolwich Dock Historic Site, Woolwich, Sydney (NSW)
Obituary - Peter Letheby (1924-2019)
Book Review - Rails to Rubicon
Heritage & Tourist News - 15 items from Australia and UK
Back cover photos: Bunnings 176 on Donnelly River sawmilll line (WA)

No. 270 December 2019:

Sleeping on a volcano - The gunpowder magazines of Melbourne and their tramways(Vic)
Rockhampton Harbour Board locomotive (QLD)
Rubicon pioneer’s picnic (Vic)
Industrial Railway News - 14 items from around Australia and Fiji
Field Reports - The Port Kembla No.2 Colliery (NSW); Sir John Franklin incline, Gooleys Creek (Vic)
Heritage & Tourist News - 12 items from Australia
Back cover photos: G42 working on the Beech Forest narrow gauge branch (Vic)

No. 269 October 2019:

Revisiting Wyett’s Tramway, Beaconsfield (Tas)
From Tram to Rail – the Warrnambool Pier Line (Vic)
Ring River bridge disaster (Tas)
Looking back: End of the Line – Bunnings Mill, Manjimup 1966 (WA)
Industrial Railway News - 18 items from around Australia and Fiji
Letters - Plateways around Melbourne (LR 258,267); Manning River breakwater locomotives (LR 240 Research section)
2018 JLN Southern Award
Obituary: John Weller Shoebridge
John Monash Award to David Jehan
Field Reports - Langi Logan quarries (Vic)
Heritage & Tourist News - 9 items from Australia
Back cover: Queensland sugar cane 1966 photographs

No. 268 August 2019:

The Clarence River Breakwater Story: Part 5 (NSW)
Looking back: Moonta in the 1890s (SA)
The Moreton Sugar Mill collection (Qld)
Kew Mental Hospital Construction Tramway (Vic)
Industrial Railway News - 19 items from around Australia and Fiji
Letters - Mount Lyell Railway, May 1963 - Looking Back (LR 267); Morts Dock locomotive - Botany Sewage tramway (LR 256); Hunslet locomotives; WW1 Surplus and memorialised locomotives (Letters LR 264, 265 and 267); The Clarence River Breakwater (LR 262 & 267)
Heritage & Tourist News - 18 items from Australia
Back cover: Emu Bay Railway 1963 photographs

No. 267 June 2019:

Plateways around Melbourne (Vic)
The Duranbah CSR Tramway (Qld)
Industrial Railway News - 15 items from around Australia
Letters - Robb and Co’s Cudgen sugar operations (LR265); The Clarence River Breakwater (LR 262); “Tom Thumb” locomotive (LR 242); WW1 Surplus and memorialised locomotives (Letters LR 264 & 265); Looking Back (LR 266); Ash disposal tramways in NSW (LR 266)
Book Review: The Steam Tram in Australia and New Zealand, by Bruce Macdonald
Field Reports -Andersons Tunnel and Incline, Glen Davis (NSW); Carnarvon Tramway (WA)
Heritage & Tourist News - 7 items from Australia
Looking back: Mt Lyell Mining and Railway Company Limited
Back cover: Maylands Brickworks photographs

No. 266 April 2019:

A close run thing – flooding at Aberdare Extended Colliery (NSW)
Ash disposal light railways in NSW
Knox Brothers’ Quarry, Leongatha (Vic)
Tom’s job (Warburton, Vic)
DH Lawrence and the Bulli Coal Company jetty (NSW)
Jetty shunter ventured far inland (Port Lincoln, SA)
Industrial Railway News - 16 items from around Australia and Fiji
Letters - WW1 Surplus and Memorialised Locomotives (Letter LR 264); The Cheetham Chronicles: Part 6 (LR 263); Robb & Co's Cudgen Sugar Operation (LR 265)
SEQ Group - Mike Loveday photo competition 2018
Field Reports -SR&WSC tramway, Lake Fyans, Grampians (Vic); Esperanza research station tramway, Antarctica
Heritage & Tourist News - 8 items from Australia
Looking back: Mabel working in SA

No. 265 February 2019:

Robb & Co’s Cudgen Sugar Operations (Qld)
Does away with tramways! - – An early Victorian ‘skyline’ (Vic)
Some unusual skips at Black Jack colliery (NSW)
Industrial Railway News - 15 items from around Australia and Fiji
Letters - WW1 Surplus and Memorialised Locomotives (H&T report LR 263); End of an era – a driver’s perspective. Dreamworld locomotives (LR 264); The Cheetham Chronicles: Part 6(LR 263)
Tour Report - Grampians Quarry Tour – November 2018
Field Reports - Condon’s Tramway, Yahoo Creek, Kawarren, (Vic); Lake Tyrrell. (Vic)
Heritage & Tourist News - 11 items from Australia, UK and USA
Looking back: Sugarloaf (now Eildon) Reservoir Dam

No. 264 December 2018:

The Torrumbarry Tramway, a journey (Vic)
End of an era, a driver’s perspective (Dreamworld, Qld)
Looking back (Mossman, Qld)
Industrial Railway News - 17 items from around Australia and Fiji
Field Reports - A.& D. Munro’s Cabarlah Tramway (Qld)
Letters - Beware up in the Dandenongs; The Cheetham Salt Chronicles – Part 6 (LR 263); WW1 Surplus and Memorialised Locomotives (H&T report LR 263)
Obituary - Arthur J Straffen
Heritage & Tourist News - 13 items from Australia, UK and USA

No. 263 October 2018:

The Cheetham Chronicles: Part 6 Moolap and Laverton (Vic)
Guy’s Tramway at Pebbly Beach South Coast of NSW
Industrial Railway News - 17 items from around Australia and Fiji
Lloyd Copper Company Firewood Tramway (NSW)
Letters - Book Review – Sleeper cutting in Australia (LR 261); Munitions factory light railways at Villawood and St Mary’s (LR 261 and 262); Frank Stamford OAM (LR 262)
2017 JLN Southern Award – Judges Report
Heritage & Tourist News - 10 items from Australia and the UK

No. 262 August 2018:

The Clarence River Breakwater: Part 4 (NSW)
Baxter & Prince Mills (WA)
Schöma Tunnel Locomotives exported to Australia and NZ
Industrial Railway News - 16 items from around Australia and Fiji
Field Reports - Drive/Knott Mill, Arkins Creek, Wyelangta (Vic)
Letters - Orenstein & Koppel steam locomotives in Australia (LR246); Harbour Works wagons (LR261); Early days of Mount Read, Willamsford and Rosebery (LR261); Torrumbarry (LR260, LR261) and hand tinted photographs; Torrumbarry (LR260); Hunslet 1239 (LR261); Walkers B-B DH locomotive (LR 260); Book Review – Speed Limit 20 Plus (LR260); Munitions Factory light railways at Villawood and St Mary’s – an overview (LR 261)
Heritage & Tourist News - 6 items from Australia

No. 261 June 2018:

Hunslet locomotive 1239 (WD327) (Qld)
Early days of Mount Read, Williamsford and Rosebery (Tas)
Munitions Factory light railways at Villawood and St Marys (NSW)
Wooden tram to the Elliott River (Vic)
Industrial Railway News - 16 items from around Australia and Fiji
Letters - The later years of the Marrawah Tramway (LR 254 and 257); Flinders Street parcel tramway (LR ???); Torrumbarry (LR 260); The Hercules Company’s self acting tramway (LR 260); “On Splintered Rails” book review (LR 260); Torrumbarry (LR 260); Harbour Works wagons (LR 257,258,260)
Book Review
- Sleeper cutting in Australia
Obituary
- David Burke OAM
Field Reports - Hitt’s Tramway, Hitts Siding, Kawarren (Vic)
Heritage & Tourist News - 11 items from Australia and the UK

No. 260 April 2018:

Torrumbarry (Vic)
The Hercules Company’s Self-Acting Tramway (Tas)
Industrial Railway News - 17 items from around Australia and Fiji
Obituary
- Bill Henderson
- Bill Ferris
Mount Samaria Tour – 25 and 26 November 2017 (Vic)
Book Review
- Speed Limit 20 Plus
- On Splintered Rails -The Era of the Tasmanian Bush-Loco 1873 – 1974 Volume 1
Field Reports - Planet Mills, Mount Disappointment (Vic)
Letters - The Buyers locomotive and its successors (LR 258); Henderson Naval Base (LR 257)
Heritage & Tourist News - 12 items from Australia and the UK

No. 259 February 2018:

The Coffs Harbour Timber Company Limited, Part 2 (NSW)
Bongaree’s jetties – more from Bribie Island (QLD)
A Warburton timber man (Vic)
The Wombat Creek Tramway, North Warrandyte (Vic)
Industrial Railway News - 17 items from around Australia and Fiji
Letters - EM Baldwin tunnelling locomotives Job Number 5366; LR258 - An important milestone, and a correction; Plateways of Melbourne (LR 258)
Obituary - Michael Clifford Galway Schrader 30.9.1930 – 27.11.2017
Field Reports - Fermoy, Woods Point Central and Vulcan mines, Woods Point (Vic)
Heritage & Tourist News - 6 items from Australia

No. 258 December 2017:

Plateways around Melbourne (Vic)
The Buyers locomotive and its successors (Tas)
Book Reviews: Shale and Shays; Iron Roads in the Outback
Industrial Railway News - 13 items from around Australia and Fiji
Field Reports - Anderson's tramway, Marysville (Vic); Ruby Creek mine, near Oberon (NSW); Milk Tramway, Manning River (NSW)
Letters - A harbour for Port Fairy (LR256); The later years of the Marrawah Tramway - Part 2 (LR257); Singleton Target Range light railway (LR257); Treasures from Trove - Herbert River bridge (LR257); Heritage and Tourist News (LR257); An interesting rail wagon (LR257)
Research - Global Positioning Systems - the Software side
Heritage & Tourist News - 9 items from Australia

No. 257 October 2017:

The later years of the Marrawah Tramway (Tas)
The East Greta Coal Mining Company and the European War (NSW)
Singleton Target Range light railways (NSW)
Looking back - Garratt action in the Otways (Vic)
Industrial Railway News - 23 items from around Australia and Fiji
Treasures from Trove: A Dreadful Alternative and a hairbreadth escape (Vic)
Treasures from Trove: The Timber Getters (Vic)
Letters - An interesting rail wagon
Life Memberships: Phil Rickard; Bill Hanks
JLN Southern Award report
Field Reports - Harper’s Mill, Mount Disappointment (Vic) Gauge 1067mm
Heritage & Tourist News - 12 items from Australia and United Kingdom

No. 256 August 2017:

The Botany Sewage Farm Railway (NSW)
Safe Haven on the Shipwreck Coast (Port Fairy, Vic)
Looking back - Fyansford reminiscences (Vic)
Industrial Railway News - 17 items from around Australia and Fiji
Letters - Mystery item from Narbethong (LR 255); Norfolk Island Pier Tramways (LR 255); Russell Allport Electric Locomotive (LR246, 248, 249, 250); Clarence River Breakwater Story - Part 3 (LR255)
Obituaries: Stephen J Martin; Alan Watson
Field Reports - Slocumb & Walker sawmill and tramway, Mount Disappointment, Victoria, Gauge 1067 mm
Heritage & Tourist News - 13 items from Australia, Fiji and United Kingdom

No. 255 June 2017:

The Clarence River Breakwater Story, Part 3 (NSW)
Industrial Railway News - 16 items from around Australia and Fiji
Letters - Object found on a timber tramway (Vic); Silvan Dam Construction (Vic); Last Train from Gellibrand (LR 254); Tramways of the Moreton Bay Islands (LR 251); The HMAS Creswell Breakwater Tramway (LR 253)
Field Reports - Norfolk Island pier tramways, Gauge unknown; Torrumbarry Weir, Victoria (see LR 229, 236,243 and 246) 610 mm gauge
Heritage & Tourist News - 12 items from Australia and New Zealand

No. 254 April 2017:

The later years of the Marrawah Tramway Part 1: The lines (Tasmania)
And the tail-waggers did all right... The Kingston-Naracoorte railway in the 1870s (SA)
Looking back - Last train from Gellibrand ; Colac – Weeaproinah railway dismantling (Vic)
Industrial Railway News - 13 items from around Australia and Fiji
Fiji - 2016 Season
Letters - Tramways of the Moreton Bay Islands (LR251); The HMAS Creswell Breakwater Tramway (LR253); Field Report “Catherine Hill Bay Jetty N.S.W.” (LR249)
Tour report: Otway Ranges Tour - 12 and 13 November 2016
Field Reports - Bolla Bollana smelter, Flinders Ranges, SA; Clarence River breakwater railways, NSW (see LR248); Coffs Harbour tramways, NSW
Heritage & Tourist News - 13 items from Australia, UK and Fiji

No. 253 February 2017:

The HMAS Creswell Breakwater Tramway (Jervis Bay Territory)
A forensic examination of a dead caterpillar (Tasmania)
Cookbundoon Slate Quarry, Towrang, NSW
Research - The Use of Vertical Aerial Imagery in Light Railway Field Research
Industrial Railway News - 21 items from around Australia and Fiji
Obituary - Raymond James Gardiner
Tour report: Gold Coast Light Rail Tram Depot (QLD)
Tour report: Captains Flat (NSW)
Field Reports - Sixty Sawmilling and Tramway activities around Gilwell Park, Gembrook, Vic
Heritage & Tourist News - 10 items from Australia

No. 252 December 2016:

The horses didn’t have a chance. The Kingston–Naracoorte Railway in the 1870s – Part 1 (SA)
‘Good historians need strong boots’ - Narbethong sawmills and tramways (Vic)
South Maitland Railways – A career remembered (NSW)
Looking Back: Yallourn – the early years (Vic)
Industrial Railway News - 17 items from around Australia and Fiji
Letters - John Heine and Son Ltd (LR251); Tramways of the Moreton Bay Islands (LR251); East Bay Neck and its light railways (LR249); Port Arthur Tramways (Tas)
LRRSA NSW Division 40 years’ celebration
Book Review: Locomotive Enginemen of Tasmania by Nick Anchen
Field Reports - Illawarra Coke Company, Coal Cliff (NSW); Wittenoom Gorge (WA).
Heritage & Tourist News - 11 items from Australia

No. 251 October 2016:

The Coffs Harbour Timber Company Limited – Part 1 - Nondaville Mill and the Boambee Timber Tramway (NSW)
Treasures from Trove - Now Mountain Railway Ferntree Gully to Gembrook (1900 VIC)
Tramways of the Moreton Bay Islands (QLD)
John Heine & Son Ltd (NSW)
Industrial Railway News - 19 items from around Australia and Fiji
2015 JLN Southern Award
Obituary - Raymond Francis Ellis
Letters - Shay locomotives at Geeveston - Engaging the Giants (Tas); The Trevallyn hydro-electric scheme (Tas LR218); Coal Creek Community Park (H&T LR249); The wood trains of 17 Mile Camp and Gindalba (WA LR250); East Bay Neck and its light Railways (Tas LR249); East Bay Neck and its light Railways - Krauss locomotive and rails; Titles and Nomenclature (Tas LR249)
Field Reports - Former Condong tramway bridge, Murwillumbah NSW; State Rivers and Water Supply Commission Red Cliffs Pumping Station (Vic)
Research - Global Positioning Systems
Heritage & Tourist News - 15 items from Australia