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No. 299 October 2024:
This 48 page edition has the following contents:
- The Carmila tramway – Part 2 (Qld)
- Reconstructing Robb’s Reward – The archaeology of a small Victorian gold mine and its tramway system (Vic)
- Looking Back - Mossman Mill - Part 2 (Qld)
- Site visits in Sydney – Sydney Harbour Bridge Walk and Potts Hill Pumping Station & Reservoir (NSW)
- Industrial Railway News - 15 items from Australia and Fiji
- Letters: Leconfield and Denton Park revisited (LR296,LR297); More information about Richard FitzArthur Waller (LR298); Bob Morley – Emu Bay engineman (LR298); Nambour Museum photos (LR298); Victorian Railways, 2 ft-gauge construction tramways (LR298); Victorian Railways’ trolley test tracks (LR298); Fort Lytton (LR298); Light railway at Mount Kembla; Footplate experience trains (Letter in LR 298); Mallet locomotives on industrial railways (LR298)
- 2023 J.L.N. Southern Award winner
- Heritage & Tourist News - 18 items from across Australia
- Emu and Prospect Gravel Company, Emu Plains, NSW
No. 298 August 2024:
This 48 page edition has the following contents:
- Bob Morley – Emu Bay Railway Engineman (Tas)
- Quarry Tramways of Shellharbour Part 2 – Dunmore (or Locking Hill) quarry (NSW)
- More Information about Richard FitzArthur Waller
- The Timber Trade in South Gippsland – A Visit to the Sawmills (Vic)
- Looking Back - Mossman Mill (Qld)
- Industrial Railway News - items from Australia and Fiji
- Anthony (Tony) Coen, OAM
- Letters: Lever Brothers’ Soapery works, Balmain. (LR296); Mystery photo (LR 296); Shoemaker Mine, Benwood, West Virginia; Mallet Locomotives on Industrial Railways; Quarry tramways at Bass Point (LR 297); Tasmanian rail trails; Victorian Railways’ trolley test tracks; LR296 Front Cover
- Research: Victorian Railways’ 2ft-gauge construction tramways (Vic)
- Heritage & Tourist News - items from across Australia
- Wee Georgie Wood (Tas)
No. 297 June 2024:
This 48 page edition has the following contents:
- The Carmila tramway - part 1 (Qld)
- Quarry tramways of Shellharbour part 1 - Bass Point Quarry (NSW)
- Looking Back - Sydney Harbour Bridge from 1923 to 1932 (NSW)
- Industrial Railway News - 15 items from Australia and Fiji
- Letters: Leconfield and Denton Park revisited (LR 296); Articulated steam locomotives (LR 295); Lake Hart salt tramway (LR 296); Goolwa Barrage (LR 296); Mystery photo (LR 296)
- Field Reports: Flowerdale No.2 mill, Kinglake (Vic)
- Heritage & Tourist News - 13 items from across Australia
- Victor Harbor horse tram (SA)
No. 296 April 2024:
This 48 page edition has the following contents:
- Fatal Accident at Yarra Junction – 25 February 1913 (Vic)
- Leconfield and Denton Park revisited (NSW)
- Crossing the Burdekin by cane train (Qld)
- Lever Brothers’ Soapery works, Balmain (NSW)
- Timber tramways of the NSW far south coast - Part 3 (NSW)
- Looking Back - Goolwa Barrage (SA)
- Industrial Railway News - 10 items from Australia and Fiji
- Letters: Malden Island (LR 146, 201, 205, 272 & 275); Articulated steam locomotives (LR 295); Mystery photo
- Field Reports: Lake Hart salt tramways, South Australia
- Victorian Community History Awards 2023 - Peter Evans
- Heritage & Tourist News - 15 items from across Australia
- South Maitland Railways and Richmond Vale Railway (NSW)
No. 295 February 2024:
This 48 page edition has the following contents:
- Quarry railways on Bombo Point (NSW)
- Eucla and its tramway (WA)
- Articulated Locomotives
- Looking Back - Western Australian Jetty Tramways (Part 2)
- Industrial Railway News - 16 items from Australia and Fiji
- Book Review - Whistles through the Tall Timber
- Letters: Morts Dock (LR 292); Light railway books for sale; Burra - 100 years old (LR293); Excelsior Colliery, Thirroul (LR 293); Locomotive Tarry; Bundanoon railway station; Bruce Macdonald obituary (LR294)
- Walhalla and Tyers Junction Tour, 25 and 26 November 2023
- Site visits in Sydney - Trades Hall and Banner Room (NSW)
- Field Reports: Greens Creek mining sites, battery and tramways, Glen Dart, Victoria
- Heritage & Tourist News - 9 items from across Australia
- Early Puffing Billy (Vic)
No. 294 December 2023:
This 48 page edition has the following contents:
- Tweed River Entrance Works' Tramways (NSW)
- Salt from Esperance’s Pink Lake (WA)
- Looking Back - Torrumbarry revisited (Vic)
- Burra – 100 years old! (NSW)
- Looking Back - WA jetty tramways - Part 1
- Industrial Railway News - 16 items from Australia, Fiji and Christmas Island
- Goodwood tramway (LR 292); Denton Park Colliery (LR 120, 122, 123 and 125); Mort’s Dock Reminders (LR 292); Excelsior Colliery, Thirroul (LR 293); 125th anniversary of the VR’s NA-class locomotives (LR 293)
- Field Reports: Wyett’s Tramway, Beauty Point, Tasmania
- Heritage & Tourist News - 14 items from across Australia
- Tullah reminisces
No. 293 October 2023:
This 48 page edition has the following contents:
- The Sugar Research Institute and its role in cane railway development (Qld)
- One man’s journey in steam - building the locomotive Douglas - Kerrisdale Mountain Railway (Vic)
- Excelsior Colliery, Thirroul (NSW)
- Burra – 100 years old! (NSW)
- Looking Back - WA jetty tramways - Part 1
- Industrial Railway News - 25 items from Australia and Fiji
- Site visits in Sydney (NSW)
- Letters: Ebb and flow – Beech Forest rail traffic patterns (LR291); Maylands Brickworks (LR 291); Looking Back – Ocean Island or Nauru (LR292)
- Obituary - Bruce Macdonald
- Field Reports: Treasury tunnel tramways, Adelaide, SA
- Heritage & Tourist News - 12 items from across Australia and New Zealand
- 125th anniversary of VR NA locomotives
No. 292 August 2023:
This 48 page edition has the following contents:
- Locomotives of the NSW Public Works Department – Part 2
- The Goodwood Timber Tramway (Vic)
- The Yallourn Basalt Quarry Tramway (Vic)
- Mount Frome Lime Ltd, Mudgee (NSW)
- Mort’s Dock Reminders (NSW)
- Looking Back – Ocean Island or Nauru?
- Industrial Railway News - 19 items from Australia and Fiji
- Field Reports: Porcupine Hill ballast tramway (Vic)
- Letters: Revisiting Wyett’s Tramway, Beaconsfield (LR 269); Smithfield explosive tramways (LR148, LR291); Light Railways – Design changes (LR 291); Light railway aspects of Cockatoo Island (LR284) and Light railways at sea: coal hulks in Western Australia (LR289)
- Obituary - Bruce Macdonald
- Heritage & Tourist News - 16 items from across Australia and UK
- Back cover: Locomotive No. 31 (NSW PWD)
No. 291 June 2023:
This 48 page edition has the following contents:
- Ebb and Flow – Beech Forest Rail Traffic Patterns 1928 to 1954 (Vic)
- Excursion trains on the Aramac Tramway (Qld)
- The Restoration of Simplex Diesel Locomotive 21575
- Steamfest 2023
- Looking Back – South Maitland Railway (NSW)
- Industrial Railway News - 13 items from Australia and Fiji
- Research – Beaconsfield mine, Tasmania
- Field Reports: South Geelong Tramway (Vic)
- Book Review - Horse Trams of Australia
- Obituary - Chris Andrews
- Letters: Yarra Bank Tramway – Research (LR289); Walhalla Goldfields Railway (LR289); EBR rail motors (LR 286); Smithfield explosives light railway (LRN98 and 100; LR141, 142 and 148); The Luggage Point Tramway, Brisbane (LR276 & 280)
- Heritage & Tourist News - 13 items from across Australia and UK
- Back cover: Maylands Brickworks (WA)
No. 290 April 2023:
This 48 page edition has the following contents:
- Locomotives of the NSW Public Works Department – Part 1
- Ken Fall – Memories of Powelltown (Vic)
- Schöma tunnel locomotives in Australia, NZ and PNG
- Looking back – Iron Knob (SA)
- Industrial Railway News - 17 items from Australia and Fiji
- Field Reports: North Keeling Island salvage tramway
- Letters: Rail Motors of the Emu Bay Railway (LR286); Katoomba Incline - Points Arrangements; Mt McIntyre Mill Track (LR221); Henchel Locomotives H&T Report (LR289); Good Hope Mine, Crooked River (LR289); Bellarine Report on the Q train (LR289); Looking Back: Longworths' (Laurieton) Limited (LR288)
- Heritage & Tourist News - 13 items from across Australia
- Back cover: 1950s PG Dow photos from Victoria and Bingera Mills (Qld)
No. 289 February 2023:
This 48 page edition has the following contents:
- Good Hope Mine, Crooked River (Vic)
- Light railways at sea: coal hulks in Western Australia
- Research: Yarra Bank Tramway (Vic)
- Looking back – Stannary Hills & Irvinebank tramways (Qld)
- Industrial Railway News - 19 items from Australia and Fiji
- Field Reports: Thompson Portal Tramway, Thomson River (Vic)
- Clive Plater OAM
- Letters: Rail Motors of the Emu Bay Railway (LR 286); Stories from the Otways (LR287); Farina had a 2ft gauge line (LR287 & LR188); The Tasmania Gold Mine OHW Electric Tramway (LR281); Industrial wagons at Collie, WA; Watch out for snipers (or the lack of)!; Preserved locomotive in Queenstown; Tramways on Raine Island and at Burrinjuck (LR287)
- LRRSA Timboon tour (Vic)
- Obituary: Kenneth John Milbourne OAM KStJ
- Heritage & Tourist News - 17 items from across Australia and the UK
- Back cover: ASG power at the Pieman River (Tas)
No. 288 December 2022:
This 48 page edition has the following contents:
- Fire & Flood. The Lithgow State Coal Mine (NSW)
- CSR’s Proposed Tweed River to Nerang Heads Tramway (NSW/Qld)
- Bundanoon Sawmills and Inclines (NSW)
- Looking back – Longworths at Kendall (NSW)
- Industrial Railway News - 18 items from Australia and Fiji
- Field Reports: Great Northern Timber Company Bridge site, Woolgoolga (NSW)
- Book Review
- Wooden Rails & Green Gold (Peter Evans)
- Letters: Aerial photography resources; Rail Motors of the Emu Bay Railway (LR 286); Stories from the Otways (LR287); Waroona – Lake Clifton Ghost Train; Industrial wagons at Collie, WA; Black Sands from Yamba (LR287); Letters to the Editor (Cataract Dam, LR287)
- Obiturary - Dr John McCutchan
- LRRSA Burraga tour (NSW)
- Heritage & Tourist News - 17 items from across Australia
- Back cover: Fiji sugar cane trams
No. 287 October 2022:
This 48 page edition has the following contents:
- Black Sands from Yamba (NSW)
- Diesels at the Clarence River Breakwater Works (NSW)
- MStories from the Otways (Vic)
- Levee Bank Tramways near Tailem Bank (SA)
- Looking Back: Puffing Billy reopening in 1962 (Vic)
- Industrial Railway News - 16 items from Australia and Fiji
- Book Reviews
- The Light Railways of South Australia
- The Last Engineer on the North Australia Railway
- Letters: Book review – 150 years of Railways in Tasmania (LR 285); Tramways on Raine Island; Light railway aspects of Cockatoo Island (LR 284); Rail Motors of the Emu Bay Railway (LR 286); The Rottnest Express (LR284); Climax locomotive builder’s plate; Rail Motors of the Emu Bay Railway (LR 286) Warburton/Powelltown area Post Office history
- JLN Southern Award report
- Heritage & Tourist News - 19 items from across Australia, Wales, New Zealand
- Back cover:Commonwealth Portland Cement Company at Portland (NSW)
No. 286 August 2022:
This 48 page edition has the following contents:
- Rail Motors of the Emu Bay Railway (Tas)
- Soldiers, Swamps and Sand (Hobsons Bay, Vic)
- Moreton Mill lift span bridge (Qld)
- Looking back – Rubicon (Vic)
- Aramac Tramway’s locomotive problems 1911-15 (Qld)
- Industrial Railway News - 17 items from Australia and Fiji
- Field Reports - Lal Lal industrial sidings (Vic)
- Book Review
- Tramways Coconuts & Phosphate
- Letters: The sad saga of the Tomago coalfield (LR 285); David Munro catalogue illustration (LR 285);
- Heritage & Tourist News - 20 items from across Australia, Wales, New Zealand
- Back cover: Remembering ‘The Beechie’ – closed sixty years ago, 30 June 1962 (Vic)
No. 285 June 2022:
This 48 page edition has the following contents:
- Tramways of the minor coal mines in the Hunter Valley (NSW)
- Failed dreams and broken promises (Tomago Coalfield NSW)
- Lithgow’s Narrow-Gauge Railway (NSW)
- Pansy and the ‘Blue Fish Limited’ (North Head, Manly, NSW)
- David Munro catalogue illustration
- Looking Back: Port Adelaide’s Outer Harbor works (SA)
- Industrial Railway News - 18 items from Australia
- Field Reports - Wye River log tramway (Vic)
- Book Reviews
- A history of Clyde Engineering: The steam era 1898 to 1948
- 150 Years of Railways in Tasmania
- Heritage & Tourist News - 13 items from across Australia
- Back cover: Out to grass - Queensland sugar mills
No. 284 April 2022:
This 48 page edition has the following contents:
- The Red Cliffs Pumping Station light railway Part 2 (Vic)
- Light railway aspects of Cockatoo Island (NSW)
- The Rottnest Express – horse tram for holiday makers (WA)
- Industrial Railway News - 16 items from Australia and Fiji
- Letters - Confidence Saddle tramway (LR 281/282/283); An Angourie Surprise (LR 283)
- Heritage & Tourist News - 11 items from across Australia
- Back cover: Thirsty engine - ASG 20A on the Emu Bay Railway (Tas)
No. 283 February 2022:
This 48 page edition has the following contents:
- The Red Cliffs Pumping Station light railway (Vic)
- Hunt & Opie: pioneer locomotive builders of Ballarat (Vic)
- Buderim tramway Krauss locomotive (Qld)
- Looking back - Moreton Mill, Nambour (Qld)
- Industrial Railway News - 14 items from Australia and Fiji
- Field Reports - Hudson Brothers Narani Sawmill Tramway log landing ramp, Smiths Lake (NSW)
- Letters - An Angourie Surprise (LR 281); Tramline, Cascade Pier, Norfolk Island photo (LR 256); Tasmanian Main Line Railway Reviewed history and locomotive updates Part 1 – Early history and the Fox Walker locomotives (LR 272); Caldwell-Vale and Purcell Engineering locomotives (LR 278); HMAS Cresswell breakwater tramway (LR 253); Lacrosse Island and remote tramways (LR 281); Illuka Quarry (various issues of LR, mainly 248); Confidence Saddle tramway (LR 281 and 282)
- Heritage & Tourist News - 20 items from across Australia and UK
- Back cover: End of the Line – Silverton Tramway
No. 282 December 2021:
This 48 page edition has the following contents:
- The Magnet Mine and its trams. The Waller connection Part 2 (Tas)
- A traveller’s perspective of Magnet in 1903 (Tas)
- That bridge at Redlynch – a 1950s solution (Qld)
- Perry Engineering Memorial (SA)
- Balmain maintenance yard tramway, Sydney Ferries Ltd (NSW)
- Looking back - Victoria Mill Photos ~1960 (Qld)
- Memories of a railway childhood (Vic)
- Industrial Railway News - 12 items from Australia and Fiji
- Field Reports - Penshurst ballast pit tramway (Vic)
- Book Review - Australia's Colourful American Locomotives
- Letters - Milang Railway Museum (SA) LR 280; Victorian jetty tramways (Looking Back) LR 280; Pole Cups - which way is up? (LR 278 and 280); Researching Manning Wardle locomotives for a potential article in LR; Gemco Locomotives; Coraki Wharf – Treasures from Trove (NSW) (LR 280); Some further notes on Wallace’s tram at Confidence Saddle (LR 281); “The Null” tramway, Watagan Mountains, NSW central coast; Photo of Wolseley 18/85 (LR 281); Ringwood Colliery (LR 130, 155, 279, 280 and 281); Blue Mountains tramways (NSW); Lacrosse Island lighthouse tramway (LR 281)
- Obituary - Graeme Inglis
- 2020 JLN Southern Award
- Heritage & Tourist News - 13 items from across Australia and UK
- Back cover photos: Stockrington No 2 Colliery
No. 281 October 2021:
- An Angourie surprise (NSW)
- A quarry tramway tragedy at the Camden Haven River (NSW)
- Isis Sugar Mill rail update (Qld)
- The Tasmania Gold Mine OHW electric tramway
- Lacrosse Island lighthouse tramway (WA)
- Field Reports - Dunkley’s/Wallace’s tramway near Zeehan (Tas)
- Industrial Railway News - 17 items from Australia and Fiji
- Letters - Blue Mountains tramways (NSW); Ringwood Colliery (LRs 130,155,279,280); Lakes Creek Meatworks tramway, Rockhampton, (LR 214); Pole Cups - which way is up? (LR 278);D+ locomotive boiler at Southport (Tas)
- Heritage & Tourist News - 15 items from across Australia
- Back cover photos: South Johnstone Mill scenes
No. 280 August 2021:
- Caldwell-Vale and Purcell Engineering industrial locomotives - Part 2 (NSW)
- The Luggage Point Tramway, Brisbane – Part 2 (Qld)
- Tulloch Limited Memorial (NSW)
- Looking Back - Victorian Jetty Tramways
- Industrial Railway News - 12 items from Australia and Fiji
- Letters - More on Davenport locomotives in NSW (LR 278); Caldwell-Vale and Purcell Engineering locomotives (LR 278); The Australian Portland Cement Company’s Purcell Locomotive; The Crookhaven Breakwater tramway (LR 278); Lacrosse Island Lighthouse; Ringwood Colliery mystery locomotive (LR130, 155 and 279); Pole Cups – which way is up? (LR 278); Locomotive Torpedo (LR 279 cover)
- Field Reports - Percydale tramways (Vic); Southport Sawmill tramways (tas)
- Heritage & Tourist News - 24 items from across Australia
- Back cover photos: Just a normal day at Yarloop (WA)
No. 279 June 2021:
- LEFT BEHIND 2ft 6in trucks and the 1953 ‘Puffing Billy’ landslide (Vic)
- The Magnet Tramway (Tas)
- The private sugar tramways of Stotts Creek (NSW)
- Looking Back - Construction tramways at Upper Nepean dams (NSW)
- Industrial Railway News - 18 items from Australia and Fiji
- Letters - Garratt locomotive at Colac, Victoria – 1935 (LR272); Ringwood Colliery (NSW) (LR 130 & 155); The Eskbank Iron Company’s first passenger train!; LRRSA turns 60 (LR 277); Caldwell-Vale and Purcell Engineering industrial locomotives – an overview (LR 278); Michaelis, Hallenstein & Coy, Footscray (Vic) (LR278); Early locomotives at North Eton and Plane Creek sugar mills (LR 278); Export and/or restoration of locomotives – letter (LR 278)
- Field Reports - Weerite Ballast Siding, Weerite (Vic); Wentworth Falls, Katoomba (NSW)
- Heritage & Tourist News - 16 items from across Australia
- Back cover photos: State Electricity Commission of Victoria, Yallourn
No. 278 April 2021:
- Caldwell-Vale and Purcell Engineering industrial locomotives
- The Crookhaven Breakwater Tramway (NSW)
- Early locomotives at North Eton and Plane Creek sugar mills (Qld)
- Looking Back - Another Queensland miscellany
- Pole Cups – which way is up?
- Industrial Railway News - 14 items from Australia and Fiji
- Field Reports - Eastern Echuca Tramways (Vic); Macquarie Harbour breakwater (Tas); Michaelis, Hallenstein & Coy, Footscray (Vic)
- Letters - Henry’s Locomotive Operation at Forrest (Vic) – 1921; Whitcomb locomotives (LR277); Pete’s Hobby Railway, Junee (LR276); Dreamworld rail line (Qld); Exports of locomotives from Australia; Queensland Pioneer Steam Railway locomotive Kilrie (LR 277 H&T); Davenport locomotives in NSW (LR277)
- Norman Houghton OAM
- Obituary Keith McDonald
- Book Review - On Splintered Rails, The Era of the Tasmanian Bush-Loco, Volume 2 Northwest Coast and Central Coast, by Mark and Angela Fry
- Heritage & Tourist News - 18 items from across Australia
- Back cover photos: Richmond Vale Railway (NSW)
No. 277 February 2021:
- The Bellinger River breakwater story (NSW)
- LRRSA turns 60
- Yallourn, the early years – part 3 (Vic)
- Lewis’ ballast siding, Pomborneit, (Vic)
- Looking Back - Queensland Mills miscellany
- Industrial Railway News - 22 items from around Australia and Fiji
- Field Reports - Ingram’s skyline and tramway, Growlers Creek, Western Tyers (Vic)
- Letters - Yallourn Part 2 (LR 275) (Vic); Looking Back LR264; Davenport locomotives in NSW, Looking back and Rails to Woomera (LR276); South Maitland Railways (IRN, LR 276); Nebo Colliery locomotive photographs (LR 276); Memories of Garratts on Tasmania’s West Coast (LR 276)
- Obituary - John Prideaux
- 2019 JLN Southern Award
- Heritage & Tourist News - 12 items from Australia
- Back cover photos: APM Maryvale (Vic)
No. 276 December
2020:
- The Luggage Point Tramway, Brisbane – Part 1
- Memories of Garratts on Tasmania’s West Coast
- Looking Back - South Australian miscellany
- Light Railways 276 – a milestone...
- Industrial Railway News - 19 items from around Australia
- Wilmar 40 tonne locomotive upgrades
- Letters - Kerang and Koondrook Tramway (Vic); The Tasmanian Main Line Railway Reviewed history and locomotive updates, Part 2. (LR 275); Rails to Woomera (LR271, 272, 274); Briseis Tin Mining Company locomotive (LR 275
- Book Review - In the Shadow of the Prom
- Heritage & Tourist News - 17 items from Australia
- Back cover photos: AIS Nebo Colliery