Light Railways
Nos 176 to 200
April 2004 to April 2008
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No. 200 April 2008:
- Reminiscing - Early VLRRSA and LRRSA tours (Victoria)
- A locomotive named Burwood - Burwood Estate Railway (New South Wales)
- Little Yarra - Powelltown tramway (Victoria)
- Letters - Ultra light railway!; Malden Island Tramway (LR199); Lake View & Star 0-6-0T (LR195); Miniature Railway at Kempsey NSW; Hagan's Patent locomotives; Re: Garratt Locos; Jetty & Wharf Tramways on Kangaroo Island, South Australia (LR142); Vivonne Bay jetty; Cape du Couedic; Harveys Return, Cape Borda.
- Book Reviews: Coal Mines of Puponga (New Zealand); Silimpopon: A Borneo Coal Mine; 70 ans de chemins de fer betteraviers en France (70 years of sugar beet railways in France)
- Industrial Railway News (20 items from around Australia, Fiji and Solomon Islands)
- Research - Beaudesert Shire Tramway, Qld; Malcolm Moore construction machinery; National Library of Australia newspaper digitisation; Forest railways in North Borneo; LRRSA Mt Cole Forest Tour report.
- Heritage & Tourist Railway News (20 news items and Coming Events)
Special issue with eight extra pages, includes scale drawing of 3 ft gauge Baldwin 2-4-0 loco C/n 37718 Little Yarra. |
No. 199 February 2008:
- Receiver and Manager Appointed - E.M Baldwin & Sons, 1985-1989 (New South Wales)
- Malden Island Tramway: powered by sail (Kiribati)
- The Red Shoes missile tramway, Woomera (South Australia)
- From the Archives: Warrenheip Piggeries Tramway (Victoria)
- Industrial Railway News (12 items from around Australia and Fiji)
- Letters - The miniature railway at Taronga Park Zoo, 1929-1977 (LR 182, 183,184,185); E.M. Baldwin & Sons (LR198)
- DVD Reviews: Logging Off - The last year of the Weihe Forestry Railway; Sweet Spot - The story of the Olean sugar mill in Java.
- Book Review - The Bellerive to Sorell Railway - Revisited
- Research - Frederic Buss and the Invicta Sugar Mill, Qld; Eucalyptus distilling railway Kangaroo Island SA; Hebburn locomotive (2nd) No.1; Burrinjuck Krauss locomotives, NSW and Qld.
- Heritage & Tourist Railway News (16 news items and Coming Events)
No. 198 December 2007:
- Port Stanvac Refinery railways (South Australia)
- Quarantine Station, North Head, Sydney (New South Wales)
- At Rooty Hill: E.M. Baldwin & Sons Pty Ltd, 1984-5 (New South Wales)
- Industrial Railway News (22 items from around Australia)
- Book Review - Locomotives of Australia 1854 to 2007
- Letters - Goondah to Burrinjuck Railway (LR197)
- Research - Uranium mining tramways of South Australia; Australian lighthouse tramways; PTC photos online, Victoria; NSW Division of LRRSA tour to Mittagong 28 October 2007
- Heritage & Tourist Railway News (15 news items and Coming Events)
In February 1998 the LRRSA made a big change to the presentation of Light Railways when it was merged with the news magazine Light Railway News. At the same time the page size was changed to A4, and a significant amount of colour printing incorporated. This was Light Railways No.139, edited by Bruce Belbin, Bob McKillop, and John Browning.
Light Railways No.198 is the sixtieth issue on the new format, and all have been produced by the same three-person team.
No. 197 October 2007:
- Accident at Forrest (Victoria)
- Pidna : An aborted Queensland logging tramway
- Cape Coal (New South Wales & Victoria)
- Industrial Railway News (17 items from around Australia)
- Letters - Conserving industrial heritage items (LR195); Smithfield Magazine railway (LR196); The Beaconsfield Tramway (LR196).
- Obituary: Lionel Rickard
- Research - AA Company fish-bellied rail, Newcastle NSW; Tramways at Cape Inscription WA.
- Heritage & Tourist Railway News (15 news items and Coming Events).
No. 196 August 2007:
- Protecting our Heritage? Light Railways and the Protection of Movable Cultural Heritage Act 1986
- My Dad's Bridge - building a bridge on the Hebburn Railway (New South Wales)
- Rails to the You Yangs (Victoria)
- A wretched wooden rail-road - Australia's first light railway? (New South Wales)
- Notes on North East Dundas Tramway composite cars AB1 and AB2 (Tasmania)
- The Smithfield Magazine Tramway Revisited (South Australia)
- Letters - The biggest light railway; Sagano Scenic Railway (LR194 & 195); Electric Storage Battery Locomotives (LR192 & 195)
- Book Review - Puffing Billy - Spirit of the Dandenongs
- Industrial Railway News (22 items from around Australia)
- Research - Potential reserarch projects, Vic.; Free tours of the Victorian Archives Centre; Upcoming Public Records Office Tours, Vic.; Contractor's railway, Bulimba Wharf, Qld; Happenings at the LRRSA Yahoo Group
- Heritage & Tourist Railway News (21 news items and Coming Events)
Special issue with eight extra pages, includes detailed scale drawing of Tasmanian North East Dundas Tramway passenger car along with an illustrated explanatory article. |
No. 195 June 2007:
- Cane Tramways of the West Isis (Queensland)
- New Railway Pier, Port Melbourne (Victoria)
- First Rail ... Last Post (New South Wales)
- 150 years of continuous steam on the Richmond Vale Railway (New South Wales)
- Industrial Railway News (19 items from around Australia)
- Book Review - Roaring through the 20s
- Letters - Bennett Brook Railway Krauss 2181 (LR27, LR153, LR194); Macknade Mill (LR194); The Mysterious Bunyip (LR181, LR194); Sagano Scenic Railway (LR194); Electric storage battery locomotives (LR192).
- Research - Lady Elliot Island tramway, Qld; Research assistance wanted in Melbourne; Captains Flat Mines Tramway, NSW.
- Heritage & Tourist Railway News (22 news items and Coming Events).
No. 194 April 2007:
- The Australian Agricultural Company's first incline railway, Newcastle (New South Wales)
- Salt lake tramways at Mulgundawa (South Australia)
- Far North Queensland Sugar Mills - 2006
- Industrial Railway News (10 items from around Australia)
- Book Review - Sydney's Forgotten Quarry Railways
- Letters - South Maitland Railway Heritage (LR193); The Mysterious Bunyip (LR181); Portable railway in the 1850s; Sabah State Railway (LR189, LR191); Kabul tramway, Afghanistan; Fragile Idyll: Fiji October 2006 (LR 192); Penryhn Castle Industrial Railway Museum (LR192)
- Research - Tall Timber and Tramlines in NSW; Powelltown Shay locomotive; Captains Flat Mines Tramway NSW; Mining Industrial Railways
- Heritage & Tourist Railway News (12 news items and Coming Events)
No. 193 February 2007:
- K1 steams again (Wales, Tasmania)
- A Dolly Car tender - Westfalia Pty Ltd at Kialba Road, Campbelltown (New South Wales)
- The Lonely Wheels - Morisset Point, Lake Macquarie (New South Wales)
- North Queensland Ramblings during the Fifties
- Industrial Railway News (13 items from around Australia and Fiji)
- Obituary - Gerard Hendrik Verhoeven 1925-2006
- Letters - Where is it? (LR 192).
- Research - South Maitland Railway Heritage, NSW; J L Gould Sawmills workshops, Vic.; Google earth and light railways research.
- Heritage & Tourist Railway News (17 news items and Coming Events)
The lead article describes the return to service of pioneer Beyer-Garratt locomotive K1, with a brief life history of the loco. Includes several excellent photos of the loco working on the North-east Dundas Tramway, as well as current photos on the Welsh Highland Railway. |
No. 192 December 2006:
- The Seria-Badas Railway: An Australian wartime operation in Brunei
- Electric Storage Battery Locomotives: Their use and advantage for Underground Mine Haulage (reprint of 1939 article)
- A visit to Erica in May 2006 (Victoria)
- Industrial Railway News (18 items from around Australia)
- Fragile Idyll - Fiji October 2006 - including current loco lists
- Letters - Book Reviews No.259 (LR 191); Coleman & Sons Miniature Railway (LR 187); Caldwell Engineering locomotives (LR 95, 99, 102, 104, 110, 118, 119, 166 and 176).
- Where is it?
- Research - 175th Anniversary of AA Coy Tramway (with 1833 illustration); New book on WA timber lines; Bawley Point-Termeil Logging Tramway, NSW - site visit report
- Heritage & Tourist Railway News (16 news items and Coming Events)
No. 191 October 2006:
- The View from Alum Mountain - The Buladelah Alunite Mines (New South Wales)
- Paradise Lost? Sugar tramways of Fiji
- Industrial Railway News (14 items from around Australia, including reports on the aftermatrh of Cyclone Larry in the Innisfail area)
- Obituaries - Harry Wright; Graeme Breydon
- Book Reviews - Furnace, Fire and Forge; No.259: The curious story of a forgotten locomotive; COMENG: A History of Commonwealth Engineering, Volume 1: 1921-1955; Peninsula Pioneer: A History of the railways of Eyre Peninsula and their role in the settlement and development of the region.
- Letters - North Borneo's Australian Jeep Trains (LR189); Day's 0-4-0DM locomotive (LR 34, 41, 184, and 189).
- Research - LRRSA Yahoo Group; Gold Coast Tramways
- Heritage & Tourist Railway News (12 news items and Coming Events)
No. 190 August 2006:
- The Wiluna Gold Mines and their tramways (Western Australia)
- The Lake Macquarie Light Railway: rolling stock (New South Wales)
- Industrial Railway News (16 items from around Australia, including reports on the aftermatrh of Cyclone Larry in the Innisfail area)
- Letters - Blue Metal and River Stones; Burwood Estate Quarries (LR189); Fairground Locomotive (LR 161, LR 184).
- Where is it?
- Research - Great Cobar Mine railways (NSW); Amusement Park Railway at Warragamba; E.M. Baldwin line car; WA light railway publications.
- Heritage & Tourist Railway News (15 news items and Coming Events)
No. 189 June 2006:
- North Borneo's Australian Jeep Trains
- Grubb's, Colonel North, Comstock and associated tramways, Zeehan (Tasmania)
- Two twisted rails - Newcastle (New South Wales)
- Industrial Railway News (20 items from around Australia)
- Letters - Day's 0-4-0DM locomotive at Hobart (LR 34, 41, 184 and 186); Tanawha World Rail Motor (LR 188); Maylands locomotive (LR 187).
- Research - Lithgow iron and steel works; A tool for the industrial railway historian; Burwood Estate collieries, Newcastle.
- Heritage & Tourist Railway News (21 news items and Coming Events)
No. 188 April 2006:
- The Lake Macquarie Light Railway: steam locomotives (New South Wales)
- Some Malcolm Moore Fragments
- The Jewel in the Crown - Pasminco Roseberry mine railway (Tasmania)
- Industrial Railway News (17 items from around Australia)
- Letters - Baguley diesel locomotive; Leigh Creek side tipping wagon.
- Research - Tanawha World Railway, Qld; Lanitza Tramway, NSW; Victorian Heritage Register; Coal River Precinct, Newcastle, NSW; Sulphide Corporation Smelter, Cockle Creek, NSW; Mittagong Ironworks Research Project, NSW.
- Heritage & Tourist Railway News (21 news items and Coming Events)
No. 187 February 2006:
- The Salisbury Munitions Tramways (South Australia)
- Recollections of visits to the West Coast of Tasmania
- Industrial Railway News (18 items from around Australia)
- Book Reviews - Merthyr Tydfil Tramroads and their Locomotives; From Back Yard to Bennett Brook 1976-2005.
- Letters - South Australian Jetty Tramways (LR 142), Bullens "Safari Express" Steam Outline Locomotive (LR 186), Orenstein & Koppel compound Mallet 0-4-4-0T steam locomotive (LR 180).
- Research - Recognition of railway historian John Kerr; Caldwell Vale locomotive at Sea World; Bushwalking magazines; Identification of Com Eng underground locomotive; Mittagong Ironworks arachaeological dig; LRRSA Rubicon forest tour.
- Heritage & Tourist Railway News (16 news items and Coming Events)
No. 186 December 2005:
- Erica in 1945 (Victoria)
- World War II and the Malcolm Moore V8 locomotive
- The Eubenangee (or Todd's) line (Queenland)
- Industrial Railway News (19 items from around Australia)
- Video Reviews - SMR 10-class at work
- Letters - Joadja Creek railway van body; Day's 0-4-0DM locomotive at Hobart (LR184); Sandfly at Darwin (LR185).
- Research - Bullens "Safari Express" steam outline locomotive, Yatala Qld; Narrow gauge tracks in western Sysdney; Victorian Railways website; North Head Quarantine Station railway, NSW.
- Heritage & Tourist Railway News (The National Conference at Tamworth, and 16 news items and Coming Events)
No. 185 October 2005:
- The Jewel in the Crown - Pasminco Roseberry mine railway (Tasmania)
- The Lake Macquarie Light Railway (New South Wales)
- Industrial Railway News (14 items from around Australia)
- Letters - Military Railways (LR 184), Zoo trains (LR 183 & 184), Mystery I.C. locomotives LR 180 & 181).
- Heritage & Tourist Railway News (16 news items and Coming Events)
No. 184 August 2005:
- Moreton revisited May 2005 (Queensland)
- Rails beneath our feet - Newcastle Coal Mining Company railway (New South Wales)
- GEMCO battery locomotives of the Sydney Metropolitan Water Sewerage & Drainage Board (New South Wales)
- Dyckerhoff locomotives in Australia (South Australia, Western Australia)
- Industrial Railway News (22 items from around Australia, and Fiji)
- Letters - Miniature trains at Australian zoos (LR 182 & 183); Fairground railways (LR 161): Mysterious Jigsaw puzzle (LR 183); Tasmanian Railway Atlas (LR 183).
- Research - State Library of Tasmania; Noel Butlin Archives; Day/Webster 0-4-0DM locomotive, Tasmania; Baguley locomotives in Australia; Old Mittagong tunnel, New South Wales; Hume Dam construction locomotives; Mill Point sawmill site, Queensland.
- Heritage & Tourist Railway News (17 news items and Coming Events)
No. 183 June 2005:
- Here She Comes: The McKay "Sunshine" zoo trains
- Mining Railways of Cobar, Part 8 - The New Occidental Revival 1932-1952 (New South Wales)
- A little known, short lived railway operated by The Big Australian in South Australia
- Bringing a Ruston & Hornsby 20DL back to life
- Industrial Railway News (14 items from around Australia)
- Book Review - Australian Railway Atlas No.1 - Tasmania
- Letters - Caldwell Vale locomotice (LR 182), Puffing Billy Anniversary (LR 182), Miniature trains at Adelaide and Taronga zoos (LR 182).
- Heritage & Tourist Railway News (14 news items and Coming Events)
No. 182 April 2005:
- Automatic Signals on Single Lines (Upper Ferntree Gully - Gembrook, Victoria)
- Alexander Croll's Timber Tramway, Myall Lake (New South Wales)
- Malcolm Moore V8 locomotives in sugar mill service (Queensland)
- Industrial Railway News (12 items from around Australia)
- Book Reviews - Coal Railways and Mines - The story of the railways and collieries of J. & A. Brown; Industrial Narrow Gauge Stock and Trackwork
- Video Review - Industrial Steam in China
- Letters - Orenstein & Koppel Compound Mallet 0-4-4-0T steam locomotive; Where is it?; The Guthega-Munyang tunnel; Artarmon Quarry tunnel; Re: Comment LR181; St.Lawrence, central Queensland; Miniature Trains for the Adelaide and Taronga Zoos by H.V. McKay "Sunshine Harvester Works".
- Research Section - Cheetham Salt Ltd, Laverton, Vic.; Lighthouse tramways, W.A.; Caldwell Vale loco to Tonga
- Heritage & Tourist Railway News (13 news items and Coming Events)
No. 181 February 2005:
- Kelly & Lewis 5957 returns to Alexandra (Victoria)
- A 1934 Visit to the West Coast of Tasmania
- For your ultimate light railway journey - A proposal for a crematorium 1893 (New South Wales)
- Where is it?
- Continental charm - The mysterious Bunyip (Queensland)
- Christmas Island February 2004
- Industrial Railway News (16 items from around Australia)
- Letters - Iluka Breakwater Construction Railway in 1876; Mystery I.C. Locomotive (LR180); The Deep Lead ballast railway (LR180)
- Obituary - Geoff Murdoch
- Research Section - WA industrial lines; Standard Waygood Ltd industrial locomotive, Clyde NSW; LRRSA Timber Firewood & Gold Tour (Woods Point, Victoria)
- Heritage & Tourist Railway News (19 news items and Coming Events)
A wonderful variety of material - should be something to satisfy everyone in this!
No. 180 December 2004:
- Snowy Mountains Scheme - 1. Guthega - Munyang Tunnel (New South Wales)
- A Ride on the Deep Lead ballast railway (Victoria)
- Memoirs of a Fairground Railway Operator (Victoria)
- Industrial Railway News (11 items from around Australia)
- Letters - Balikpapan; A question of influence (Krauss locomotives); Mystery I.C. locomotives: Orenstein & Koppel Compound Mallet steam locomotive; 5 inch gauge Holmhurst
- Where is it?
- Research Section - Golden Pioneer Train, Lake Sambell, Vic.; Mystery Couillet locomotives?; 2004 Forest History Conference, Augusta WA; John Kerr Memorial Reading Room, Ipswich Qld; James Hardie, Camellia, NSW; Artarmon Quarry Tunnel, NSW; Carson's Timber Tramway, Olney State Forest (LR98)
- Heritage & Tourist Railway News (15 news items and Coming Events)
Includes centre double-page painting of TGR Beyer Garratt K1 on North-east Dundas Tramway, and a photograph of the restored K1 undergoing trials in Wales.
No. 179 October 2004:
- Mining Railways of Cobar - Part 7 Other Mines, 1871-1922 (New South Wales)
- Tully Mill's Birkalla Branch (Queensland)
- Industrial Railway News (12 items from around Australia)
- Book Reviews: The Mapleton Tramway
- Video Reviews: A Garratt goes again Part 1; Song of the Rails - The story of the Sandstone Narrow Gauge Railway
- Letters - Jetty Tramway, Kingston, South Australia (LR177); Senussi Cave Railway, Tobruk 1941 (LR177); WA Sawmill Locomotives; The Railways of Hebburn (LR177)
- Research Section - Members' research topics; Locomotive Sandfly
- Heritage & Tourist Railway News (15 news items and Coming Events)
Includes photos of the return of steam to Walhalla, and photo feature on the restored Mount Lyell Railway.
No. 178 August 2004:
- From Ballara to Hightville: A Remote 2 ft Gauge Solution (Queensland)
- Vale Engineering Pty Ltd (New South Wales)
- Industrial Railway News (16 items from around Australia)
- Letters - Balikpapan (LR 143, 144, 145, 148, 162 & 163); The Railways of Hebburn (LR 177); Douglas Shire Tramway.
- Research Section - Industrial Railway Society; Broome Jetty Tramways
- Heritage & Tourist Railway News (19 news items and Coming Events)
No. 177 June 2004:
- Senussi Cave Railway, Tobruk 1941 (Australian Army)
- The Railways of Hebburn (standard-gauge colliery railways in New South Wales)
- Memories of Labasa (Fiji)
- Industrial Railway News - (21 news items from round Australia)
- Book Reviews - The Ruston Class 48DS & 88DS locomotives; Exploring the Railways of Far North Queensland; A Guide to Ruston narrow gauge locomotives .
- Letters - Malcolm Moore Loco at Beech Forest; Re locomotives mentioned in LR 176; Charters Towers Water Board Railway
- Research Section - Australian Railway Monument - accident database; LRRSA Woods Point Goldfield Tour
- Heritage & Tourist Railway News (20 news items and Coming Events)
No. 176 April 2004:
- "A Tribe of Little Beasties" Captain Cook Graving Dock Construction, Sydney (New South Wales)
- The Emu Bay in a day (Tasmania)
- The Deer Park Explosives Tramway (Victoria)
- Industrial Railway News - (13 news items from round Australia)
- Letters - A Journey to Beech Forest, Mystery Locomotive at Apollo Bay, Fireless Locomotives.
- Heritage & Tourist Railway News (17 news items and Coming Events)
Includes wrap around cover picture of ASG locomotive on Emu Bay Railway.