Light Railways
Nos 226 to 250
August 2012 to August 2016
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No. 250 August 2016:
This edition of Light Railways marks a major milestone for the LRRSA - issue number 250. The Society was formed in 1961 and this magazine has been regularly produced since that time to the point where we now have 250 editions. The celebrate this milestone this issue is a bumper 48 pages
- No one was to blame - Death and injury in Victoria's Plenty Ranges in the tramway era
- Milang - its jetty and tramways (SA)
- Light railways at Thirroul and Home Rule (NSW)
- The wood trains of 17 Mile Camp and Gindalbie (WA)
- Looking back - Richards' Incline 1908, Warburton (Vic)
- Treasures from Trove - Broome's Boat Train (WA)
- Book Review - Engaging the Giants by Scott Clennett
- Field Reports - Yarloop post-fire survey, WA; Hitt's Tramway, Lardner Creek, Gellibrand,(Vic)
- Letters - East Bay Neck and its light railways (LR 249); Lake George Mines Ltd., Captains Flat (NSW); Letters to the Editor (LR 249); Mystery Electric Locomotive" (Tas) (LR 246)
- Industrial Railway News - 15 items from around Australia, Fiji and Indonesia
- Then and Now - Little Yarra takes wood at Barrier
- Research - 1921 Census extract; Contractor's diesel locomotives in New Guinea; More aerial viewing tools; John Kerr notes online (QLD); Engineering Heritage
- Heritage & Tourist News - 10 items from Australia, New Zealand and Great Britain
No. 249 June 2016:
- East Bay Neck and its light railways (Tas)
- A fine lot of timber fit for the saw. Dumbrells' timber tramway and sawmils (Vic)
- More on Crystal Salt (SA)
- Looking Back - Dunwich Jetty 1931, North Stradbroke Island; Babinda Mill 1929, Far North Queensland (QLD)
- Industrial Railway News (15 items from around Australia, Fiji and Irian Jaya)
- Letters: Orenstein and Koppel locomotives in Australia (LR246); Russell Allport electric locomotive (LR246, 248); A tale of light railways and two centuries of legislation (LR244)
- Field Reports:Catherine Hill Bay Jetty, NSW; Hermon’s sawmill and tramway, St Fillans,(Vic).
- Tour Report: Captains Flat Tour – 30 April 2016
- Heritage & Tourist Railway News (13 news items from Australia and overseas)
No. 248 April 2016:
- The Clarence River Breakwater Story (Part 2) (NSW)
- Remembering Yarloop Workshops (WA)
- Industrial Railway News (15 items from around Australia, Fiji and Irian Jaya)
- Book Review: Amusement Railways of Australia
- Letters: St Peters brickworks (LR243); Mystery Electric Locomotive (Tas LR246); Research - Ray Graf Collection (LR247)
- Millewa Salt and Gypsum Tour, 23,24 and 25 October 2015 (Vic)
- Visit report - Timbeerwah Mountain Railway, Cooroy (QLD)
- Field Reports:Taggerty Sawmilling Company / Bromfield &Gorman / Buxton Sawmilling Company mill sites and tramway networks, Black Range (Vic); Condong sugar mill tramway bridge (NSW)
- Research: Trove – National Library of Australia; Photographic collections; Aerial Viewing tool
- Heritage & Tourist Railway News (12 news items from Australia and overseas)
No. 247 February 2016:
- Mason and Moore at Nine Mile Creek (Vic)
- An almost forgotten part of Australian and World War One History (restoration of ROD 23, NSW)
- Industrial Railway News (15 items from around Australia, Fiji and Irian Jaya)
- Letters: Looking Back - Australian Light Railways on the Gallipoli Peninsula 1915 (LR245); Austral Brickworks, Eastwood (LR243)
- Looking Back - St Arnaud silver mines (Vic)
- Queensland group visit to Neranwood Tramway
- Field Reports: North Mount Lyell Railway (Tas); Sugarloaf Point Lighthouse (NSW); Fingal (NSW); Wales Quarry aerial ropeway, East Brunswick (Vic); Joadja, near Mittagong (NSW)
- Research: Ray Graf collection; Cairns beer tramway; Engineering Heritage Awards (David Jehan); Murarrie Brickworks (Qld)
- Heritage & Tourist Railway News (16 news items from Australia and overseas)
No. 246 December 2015:
- Orenstein & Koppel steam locomotives in Australia
- Firewood train has a rough day (Walhalla, Vic)
- Industrial Railway News (16 items from around Australia and Fiji)
- Letters:Barwill Quarry (LR236, 242, 243)
- Victorian Community History Awards - Frank Stamford
- Book Reviews: Saving Puffing Billy, The First Decade 1955-1965, edited by David Burke OAM; Simsville and the Jarrah Mill, Myall River State Forest, NSW, by Ian McNeil
- Field Reports: Buxton Sawmilling Company, Black Range (Vic); Derrimut Explosives Reserve (Vic);Torrumbarry Weir Coarse-sand pit (Vic)
- Research: Mystery Electric Locomotive (Tas); Searching Newspapers; Library Digitising; Francis Theakston Ltd
- Heritage & Tourist Railway News (10 news items from Australia and overseas)
No. 245 October 2015:
- The Clarence River Breakwater Story - Part 1: The South Head Quarry Railway (NSW)
- Looking back - Australian Light Railways on the Gallipoli Peninsula
- Industrial Railway News (10 items from around Australia and Fiji)
- Letters: Mt Keira (LR242); WRB (Bob) Johnson Diaries (LR244)
- Vale - Norm Wadeson OAM
- Field Reports: Robbie's Sawmill, 'S' Creek Sawmill and associated tramways, Black Range (Vic)
- Research: Breakwater Railways (NSW); Referencing Archives; Trove Updates; Victorian Places website
- Heritage & Tourist Railway News (9 news items from Australia and overseas)
- 2014 JLN Southern Award
No. 244 August 2015:
- The Stockyard Creek Tramway, South Gippsland (Vic)
- Looking back - Evans Sawmill and Tramway, Halls Gap (Vic)
- A tale of light railways and two centuries of legislation (NSW)
- Cane Trains below Ninderry (QLD)
- Industrial Railway News (11 items from around Australia and Fiji)
- Letters: Looking Back (LR242); Book Review: The Anatomy of a Narrow Gauge Baldwin (LR243); Thin Lines of Transport (LR243)
- Book Reviews: Tulloch: A History of Tulloch Engineers & Manufacturers Pyrmont & Rhodes 1883-1974 by David Jehan; Ghost Trains - Forgotten Railways, DVD, Anthony Buckley Films
- Field Reports: Cameron & Barton sawmill & tramway, Marysville (Vic); Weir's sawmill and tramway, Enfield State Forest (Vic)
- Research: WRB (Bob) Johnson diaries
- Heritage & Tourist Railway News (18 news items from Australia
No. 243 June 2015:
- Thin lines of transport - the short life of the monorailway in early twentieth-century South Australia
- Resuscitating the Count - Coal Creek (Vic)
- Looking back - Tramming Piles to Norfolk Bay (Tas) for Admiralty Harbour Works, Dover, England
- Bruce Macdonald OAM
- Industrial Railway News (10 items from around Australia)
- Letters: Ilarwill Quarry (NSW: LRN35; LR236 & 242); Financing Local Authority tramways in Queensland (LR 241)
- Field Reports: ‘Derril’ sawmill, Mt Disappointment State Forest (Vic); Harwood Sugar Mill (NSW); Torrumbarry Gallivant 2014, including Waranga Basin and Mangalore Gravel Pits (Gravelside) (Vic)
- Tour Report: South Australian Group visit to Milang and Clayton, Saturday 14 March 2015
- Book Reviews: Anatomy of a NARROW-GAUGE BALDWIN The many lives of the “Tramway da Cantareira” #2 steam locomotive (Peter Manning and Nicholas Burman); WDLR ALBUM (compiled by Roy C Link)
- Research: First diesel locomotives built in Australia; A guide to downloading maps (QLD); Copyright - What is Copyright in Australia?; Fairfax Media archive nightmare; Australian Forest History Society Inc.; Google Earth Pro; The Bush Mill, Cuba Park Railway, Penny Royal World (Tas)
- Heritage & Tourist Railway News (11 news items from Australia and New Zealand)
No. 242 April 2015:
- The Great Northern Timber Company Limited, Woolgoolga NSW
- Old Cape Patterson tram line (Vic)
- Looking back - Tramways in Wineries (SA)
- Greenbat electric locomotives in Australia
- Industrial Railway News (7 items from around Australia and Fiji)
- Letters: Angourie and Ilarwill quarries (LR236); Light railways and aerial ropeways (LR 239); Transport & Industrial Index locomotives (LR 239); Tramway Hunslet locomotive number 2; 'Tom Thumb' (LR 158, 223, 232, 233, 238)
- Round the Rip Tour (Point Nepean & Bellarine Railway) - 15 & 16 November 2014
- Field Reports: James Mackintosh sawmill tramway 1873-1881; Echuca & Moama Red Gum Sawmill Company tramway 1881-1893; Fresh Food & Frozen Storage Company tramway 1898-1902; Milo Bacon Company tramway 1902-c1920, Echuca, Victoria. Gauge 1600mm (See also LR49); Mount Keira mine tramway (NSW)
- Heritage & Tourist Railway News (9 news items from Australia and New Zealand)
No. 241 February 2015:
- In the shadow of the Prom, Part 2 - Muddy Creek (Vic)
- EM Loveday photographic competition (Qld)
- LRRSA Gundiah Bauple visit (Qld)
- Looking back - 2 lovely old photographs from Tasmania
- Industrial Railway News (15 items from around Australia and Fiji )
- Book Reviews: Ruston & Hornsby Diesel Locomotive Album; The Tunnel; Snapshots & Snippets – Old Nauru and the Phosphate Industry; Kandos Cement: A History of the Cement Manufacturing Industry at Kandos; Kandos Collieries: A History of the Coal Mining Industry at Kandos
- Letters: Transport & Industrial Index locomotives (LR239); Lithgow Valley underground diesels (LR 231); The British Australian Timber Company Limited, Part 2 – Woolgoolga (LR 240); Looking Back (LR 240); Beachport jetty tramway update, SA (LR 236, 238, 240); Early Australian Electric Locomotives – Ganz and Austral Otis (LR 92); Railways of Tasmania’s Wild West (LR 240)
- Field Reports: Coman’s Mine, Nerrigundah (NSW); Coolanine mine, Rosetta Head (The Bluff), Victor Harbor (SA); Dimboola Weir (Vic); Lake George Mine, Captain’s Flat (NSW); Peak Hill Goldfields Limited (WA); Talisker mine, Fleurieu Peninsula (SA); Tibooburra Woolshed Tramway (NSW)
- Research: Referencing for Light Railways; Public Works Department Records (NSW); Amusement Railway postcard; Google News
- Heritage & Tourist Railway News (9 news items)
No. 240 December 2014:
This is a special "bumper" issue of 48 pages, and is packed with much of interest. The shipping weight of this issue is 195 grams
- The British Australian Timber Company Limited (Part 2 - Woolgoolga - NSW)
- Looking Back - Don Tramway, Northern Tasmania; Log Hauler, Southport mill (Tas)
- Homebush centenary (QLD)
- In the shadow of the Prom (Vic)
- The Lethbridge Quarry (Vic)
- The 2014 Crush (QLD - Photo feature)
- Lake Butler slipway and portage railway at Robe (SA)
- Industrial Railway News (21 items from around Australia, Fiji and Nauru)
- Field Reports: Gold Mines, Bendigo (Vic)
- Letters: Hudson Brothers timber tramway (LR155); New light on the construction of the Narani sawmill (LR155); Transport & Industrial Index locomotives (LR239); Beachport Jetty tramway, Beachport SA (LR236,238); Tulloch 4wDM (003 of 1959)
- Book Reviews: The McIvor Timber & Firewood Company, Tooborac, Victoria; The Chert Bubble - 1920s chert ventures at Mount Victoria. Volume 1, The company; Railways of Tasmania's Wild West; Salute to the Hudswells
- Research: Manning River breakwater visited; Schõma tunnel locomotives; Customs records; Shipyard Stories - Cockatoo Island (NSW); Amusement Railways of NSW; Vaughan Springs miniature railway (Vic)
- Heritage & Tourist Railway News (16 news items)
No. 239 October 2014:
- Transport & Industrial Index locomotives
- Rails for Perth’s water supplies – the 1890s (WA)
- JLN Southern Award
- Jack back in steam (NSW)
- Industrial Railway News (14 items from around Australia and Fiji)
- Letters: Price salt works tramway (SA), Locomotives at Florentine (Tas LR 237,LR238),
- Field Reports: Beachport Update (SA); Brett’s wharf, Kingsford Smith Drive, Brisbane (QLD); Laheys’ Canungra Tramway (QLD); Cape Jaffa Jetty Tramwa (SA); ‘Old’ Napoleon mine, Bendigo (Vic); Foster Field Trip, Gippsland (Vic);
- Reviews: Hit the rails "Jack" (DVD); The History of Thomas Green & Son Ltd
- Research: Lawton battery-electric locomotives; Light Railways and Aerial Ropeways; Globe Mapping Resources; Odd Spot “Humorous Bishops”
- Heritage & Tourist Railway News (11 news items)
- Looking Back: Two photographs at Powelltown (Vic)
No. 238 August 2014:
- The British Australian Timber Company Limited (NSW)
- Major and McIvor (Vic)
- ‘Wheelbarrow Lines’: Caillet Monorails in Australia
- Industrial Railway News (12 items from around Australia and Fiji)
- Letters: South Maitland Railways Pty Ltd (a division of H&M Holdings Pty Ltd) and Hunter Valley Training Company Pty Ltd, East Greta Junction (LR 237); Shay axle breakages; Locomotive at Florentine, Tasmania (LR 237); ‘Tom Thumb’ (LR 158, 223, 232, 233)
- Field Reports: Beachport Jetty tramway, Beachport, (SA); Mount Barrow, Launceston,(Tas); Paronella Park tramway, Innisfail (QLD); Buccan railway ballast siding and tramway (QLD)
- Research: Beyond the Monorail; Researcher hits the headlines; The Coliban System of Water Works (Vic); Agricultural Tramways (WA)
- Heritage & Tourist Railway News (11 news items)
No. 237 June 2014:
- Gs amongst the woodlands: Bulong's woodline 1908-1918 (WA)
- Rail ore transport at Storys Creek (Tas)
- East Collingwood Manure Deport Tramway (Vic)
- The Marrawah Tramway's Baldwin locomotive Spider (Tas)
- Industrial Railway News (14 items from around Australia and Fiji)
- Book Review: Iron Work Horses (Bruce Macdonald)
- Letters: Phoenix foundry book review, Tramwalla-Waterloo tramway (LR 236); A Locomotive Curiosity - A Post Script (LR 201); Robe SA (LR 236); Huntsman Tramway, Tasmania (LR 236); The George Moss story - an introduction (LR 236)
- Field Reports: Mount Barrow, Launceston (Tas); Nine Mile Creek, Welshpool (VIC); Ottary mine, Tent Hill, near Emmaville (NSW); Evans Brothers lime kiln tramway, Platina (Vic): South Channel Fort, Port Phillip Bay (Vic); North East Dundas Tram, Zeehan (Tas); The North Mount Lyell Railway (Tas); RailTrack Riders, Maydena (Tas)
- Research: Morison and Bearby; Google Maps Gallery; Do-It-Yourself Google Maps Gallery; Biographies of a Profession: Forestry; Newspapers at the National Library of Australia; Boiler Records around the Nation
- Heritage & Tourist Railway News (20 news items)
No. 236 April 2014:
- The Markwell Tramway revisited (NSW)
- The genesis of the Marrawah Tramway (Tas)
- The George Moss story - an introduction
- Stars of Sandstone 2013: From a driver's perspective (Sth Africa)
- Industrial Railway News (16 items from around Australia, Irian Jaya and Fiji)
- Letters: The 2ft gauge Krauss locomotives of the Mt Lyell Mining and Railway Co (LR 232); The Mount Lyell Railway's Baldwin 0-6-0 tank locomotives (LR 228, 229); Unidentified Orenstein & Koppel locomotives (LR 91); Langley Brothers/Rock Davis Shipyard, Nambucca (LR 229, 228); SEC Victoria (LR 82, 84, 235)
- Obituary - Weston Langford
- Field Reports: Angourie and Ilarwill Quarries, Clarence River (NSW); G. G. Consolidated tramway, Bendigo (VIC); Green Cape lighthouse tramway, Eden (NSW); King Island tramways, Bass Strait (Tas): Cape Wickham Lighthouse construction tramway, Naracoopa Whard Construction tramway, Currie to Fraser River (Pegarah) Timber Tramway, Scheelite Mine Tramway at Grassy, Shipwreck tramway; Old Fogeys' (and one apprentice) Torrumbarry gallivant 2013 (Vic); South-eastern jetty tramways of South Australia: Port Macdonnell, Southend, Beachport, Cape Jaffa, Robe
- Research: Mystery photo (Tas); Research subjects; Aerial imaging (Vic); Updates to Light Railways index; Odd Spot (WA)
- Heritage & Tourist Railway News (11 news items)
No. 235 February 2014:
- Gone overseas - various locomotives which have been repatriated to the UK for restoration and operation
- Early jetty tramways of the Fleurieu Peninsula (SA)
- The E. M. Loveday photographic competition
- Industrial Railway News (11 items from around Australia and Fiji)
- Book Reviews: Locomotives of the Moreton Central Sugar Mill; The Phoenix Foundry - Locomotive Builders of Ballarat
- Letters: The 2ft gauge Krauss locomotives of the Mt Lyell Mining and Railway Co (LR 233), Unidentified Orenstein & Koppel locomotives (LR 91), The Narani–Forster–Ulverstone locomotive conundrum (LR 57, 142, 144, 147, 153, 155, 156, 234), Pleasure Island (LR 234), SEC Victoria (LR 82, 84)
- Field Reports: Trawalla & Waterloo Tramway (VIC), Two Western Victorian ballast tramways - Mount Elephant and Mount Rouse (VIC), Peak Hill Gold Mine (WA), Murrell's Beach shell-grit extraction (VIC), LRRSA Vic. Ada Valley tour (VIC), Moreton Mill Anniversary (QLD)
- Research: Wheel Markings, Australian Electric Steel (NSW), Library move (VIC), High Resolution Scanning Online, Local History Prize (NSW), Birth of the SMR 10 Class (NSW)
- Heritage & Tourist Railway News (14 news items)
No. 234 December 2013:
- The Rhodes Timber Company – Part 2: Logging tramway motive power and the bush sawmills (NSW)
- J.L.N. Southern Award
- The Ooldea firewood tramway (SA)
- Dreamworld dieselises (QLD)
- Industrial Railway News (17 items from around Australia and Fiji)
- Book Review: CLIMAX – a locomotive resurrected
- Letters: Powelltown Tramway centenary publication, Aveling & Porter Locomotives (LR 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 204), Mt Bischoff (LR 126, 130 & 204), The Narani–Forster–Ulverstone locomotive conundrum (LR 57, 142, 144, 147, 153, 155, 156)
- Field Reports: Glenrock Colliery Railway (NSW); Mount Ainslie Quarry, Canberra (ACT); Sun Ray Salt, Lake Gerahmin/Lake Daytrap, Swan Hill (VIC)
- Research: Future Digital Developments, Tulloch History, South East Queensland Tramways, Pleasure Island Amusement Park (QLD), Cooloola Tramway (QLD), Langley Vale Tramway (NSW)
- Heritage & Tourist Railway News (17 news items)
No. 233 October 2013:
- One hundred years ago - the centenary of the Powelltown Tramway (VIC)
- The Wonthaggi State Brickworks and its tramway (VIC)
- The Rhodes Timber Company, Mount George, NSW Part 1: Mount George sawmill and the Woolshed Creek logging tramway (NSW)
- A fitting Climax - Puffing Billy relaunches 1694 (VIC)
- Industrial Railway News (12 items from around Australia and Fiji)
- Letters: Locomotives at Don River Railway LR 231), Caribbean Gardens Railway (LR 232), ‘Tom Thumb’ at Botany (LR 158, 223 and 232), Magnet Tram (LR 231), The Shannon Mill railway (LR 231), Dining table tramway, Pearcedale Vic, Forster breakwater works (LR 153 & 156), Assistance with photos, State sawmill Erica (LR223)
- Field Reports: Waratah Park Bush Railway, Duffys Forest (NSW), Magnet tramway and mine, Waratah (TAS), Powelltown tramway (VIC)
- Research: Assisting new researchers, Research subject – Lauriston Reservoir VIC), Eresources, The ketch Cicada and Sorrento Tramway rail disposal VIC)
- Heritage & Tourist Railway News (13 news items)
No. 232 August 2013:
- The 2ft gauge Krauss locomotives of the Mt Lyell Mining and Railway Company (TAS)
- Industrial Railway News (20 items from around Australia, Indonesia and Fiji)
- Research: More Online Mapping Resources, Using satellie and aerial imagery and GPS, The Langley Vale Tramway (NSW LR226,227), Wright Stephensons Pty Ltd, Pulbeena (TAS), Gemco Locomotives, Hattah - Spectacle Lake Tramway (VIC), Lauriston Reservoir (VIC)
- Book Reviews: Wombat Woodsmen; The Anatomy of The Darjeeling Garratt and the locomotives it was built to replace; 110 degrees in the waterbag
- Field Reports: Flinders Street Station milk dock tramway (VIC), Crossover and Jindivick (VIC), Illawarra Harbour & Land Corporation railway (NSW)
- Letters: Ida Bay Railway (LR35, 40, 157, 160), 'Tom Thumb' at Botany (LR158, 223), Langley's Tramway Locomotives (LR227,228), National Trust, Queenstown (LR231), Langley Brothers (LR226, 228, 229), Chaplin Locomotives at Moonta Mines (LR 231), Catamaran Colliery tramway (TAS)
- Heritage & Tourist Railway News (20 news items)
No. 231 June 2013:
- The Shannon Mill railway (WA)
- Lithgow Valley underground diesels (NSW)
- Industrial Railway News (23 items from around Australia and Fiji)
- Letters: Two Number Fives (LR230), Oliver/Markham VB Locomotive (LR175), Xstrata Zinc, Mount Isa (LR220), Forster's Butter Factory Railways (LR146)
- Research: Chaplin Locomotive at Moonta Mines (SA), Online Mapping Resources, Gold Coast/Neranwood (QLD), Purcell Locomotives at an undentified location - can you help?, Here she comes - Zoo Miniature railways, Magnet Tram and other interesting light railway footage on Youtube
- Field Reports: British Australian Timber Company Tramway, Coffs Harbour (NSW, LR86), North East Dundas Tram/Emu Bay Railway, Melba Flats (Tas, LR 91, 128, 146, 148, 150, 158), North East Dundas Tram/Emu Bay Railway, Zeehan (Tas, LR 27, 35, 90, 93, 189), Institute of Foresters of Australia Field Day - Batemans Bay (NSW)
- Heritage & Tourist Railway News (29 news items and Coming Events)
No. 230 April 2013:
- Two Number Fives: The story of ex-Mersey Railway locomotives CECIL RAIKES and THE MAJOR
- Portable railway track for light railways
- Industrial Railway News (19 items from around Australia, Fiji and Papua New Guinea)
- Book Review: Comeng: A History of Commonwealth Engineering Volume 4: 1977–1985
- Letters: Gemco battery locomotives of the Sydney MWSD&B (LR184)
- Research: Bundaberg Foundry (QLD), BHP Newcastle (NSW), Cooloola tramway – Possible heritage listing (QLD), More on tramways of the Mornington Peninsula (Vic), Loxton Monorail (SA), Fairlie locomotives in Australia, Nerang Central Sugar Mill (QLD)
- Field Reports: Vivonne Bay Jetty, Kangaroo Island, (SA, LR 142, 155, 200), Coal, Karmai and Cableways Tour – 24 & 25 November 2012 (Vic), Starvation Creek Tramway, East Warburton (Vic, LR 85), Murrundindi Tramway (Vic)
- Heritage & Tourist Railway News (22 news items)
No. 229 February 2013:
- Restoring MOURILYAN (Qld)
- Fracture and Failures: The trials and tribulations of private-owner coal waggons, Newcastle district (NSW)
- Little Tableland and the South Johnstone multi-twins (Qld)
- Industrial Railway News (21 items from around Australia, Fiji and Papua New Guinea)
- Letters: Nyrstar Hobart Pty Ltd, Lutana (LR227), The Mount Lyell Baldwin locomotives (LR228), Langley Brothers (LR226,228)
- Research: Langley Vale Tramway (NSW), Tramways of the Mornington Peninsula (Vic), Perry Locomotives of the SR&WSC (Vic), Domestic Incline Tramways, Eastern View (Vic), Tweed Shire Council (NSW/Qld)
- Field Reports: Old Fogeys Torrumbarry Gallivant 2012, SR&WSC Torrumbarry Weir construction tramway (Vic), Grant's Ironstone Tramway revisited, Koolka (SA - LR225), Richmond Vale Railway, Hexham (NSW)
- Heritage & Tourist Railway News (18 news items)
No. 228 December 2012:
- The Mount Lyell Railway’s Baldwin locomotives (Tas)
- North Mount Lyell mine disaster commemoration (Tas)
- Diesels in the canefields — Java
- Industrial Railway News (16 items from around Australia and Fiji)
- DVD Review: Kalahari Sunrise
- Letters: Langley Brothers (LR226)
- Research: Early i/c locos in Australia; Barlow & Bridge rails; Jarosite mine, Torquay, Vic; Little Yarra Sawmilling Co., Reid’s tramway, Powelltown Vic; Bauple Central Mill, Bauple, Qld.
- Field Reports: Point Nepean Quarantine Station Tramway, Vic; Hells Gates breakwater, Strahan, Tas; Macquarie Harbour Works, Tas; Spray Tunnel, Zeehan, Tas; Coffs Harbour breakwater, NSW; Q STATION (formerly Manly Quarantine Station) and its light railway, NSW
- Heritage & Tourist Railway News (22 news items)
No. 227 October 2012:
- The Langley Vale tramway – Part 2 1912-1933 (New South Wales)
- The last trains to Beech Forest (Victoria)
- Industrial Railway News (19 items from around Australia, Fiji and Indonesia)
- Book Reviews:
- Riches beneath the Flat;
- The Narrow Gauge: Whitfield-Gembrook-Crowes-Walhalla
- Letters: Ballaarat (LR224); Steam locomotives on Victorian timber tramways (LR210); 3rd Australian Light Railway Operating Company (LR226); Stannary Hills tramway: Langley Vale tramway (LR226); Wooden rails and pipe dreams (LR223); Wright's Folly (LR225); Light railway at the Acropolis, Athens, Greece; The New Improved Meyer (LR225); The Lake George Mine at Captains Flat.
- Research: Brickworks tramways; Ultra-narrow gauge in Australia; Bolla Bollana Copper mines, SA
- Field Reports (6 items from NSW, SA and Vic.)
- Heritage & Tourist Railway News (13 news items)
No. 226 August 2012:
- The Langley Vale tramway – Part 1 1897-1912 (New South Wales)
- Steel rails and lead chromate (Dundas, near Zeehan, Tasmania)
- Industrial Railway News (13 items from around Australia, Fiji and Nauru)
- Book Reviews:
- Built by Bundaberg Foundry;
- Global industry, local innovation: the history of cane sugar production in Australia 1820-1995
- Letters: The new improved Meyer (LR226); Strahan jetty tramway (LR223 & 225); World War I light railways; Petrie and Eudlo Flats (LR225), SMR Stanford Merthyr line (LR225); Great Cobar locomotives (LR225)
- Research: Scope of Light Railways research; Kirchubel's Tramway (LR116); Ada River Historic Area - field report
- Heritage & Tourist Railway News (18 news items and Coming Events)