Light Railway News
From December 1977 to December 1997 Light Railway News was published separately to Light Railways magazine. It was the Society's news magazine. Since the February 1998 issue of Light Railways all the information previously published in Light Railway News is now published in Light Railways. This enables a much higher quality of presentation.
Information published in Light Railway News included:
- Field reports - these are reports of visits to sites of abandoned specialised railways
- Research column - a 'help-wanted' section for those involved in historical research
- Locomotive, rolling stock & equipment manufacturers - news of items currently under construction or recently delivered
- Industrial Railway News - a state by state listing of reports from operating specialised railways, in which Queensland sugar tramways are a major feature
- Heritage and Tourist Railway News
- Meetings notices
Sample copies of Light Railway News:
No. 121, December 1997 - twentieth anniversary edition
Light Railways News on CD-ROM
Produced by the Light Railway Research Society of Australia Inc. exclusively for LRRSA members only.
- Contains twenty years of issues of Light Railway News;
Nos 1 to 121, December 1977 to December 1997 - Over 5000 individual articles or news items
- Over 2400 automatic cross-references
- Extensive search capabilities providing rapid access to a large store of data
- Provision to add your own notes
- Provision to print out individual articles and news items
Light Railway News on CD-ROM provides the full text of every issue of Light Railway News in an electronically-searchable format. This enables a wide range of searches to be made quickly, for example:
- Find every reference to a particular locomotive by entering its builder's number or its name
- Find every reference to locomotives built by a particular builder, by entering the builder's name
- Find every reference to the tunnel on Lahey's Canungra Tramway, by entering "Lahey and tunnel"
- Find every reference to diesel locomotives working in sewers by entering "diesel and sewer"
Over 2,700 automatic cross references - facilitates easy access to related items. For example, find the most recent item about the Mackay Sugar Co-operative, and with the click of a mouse-button, track through the 51 previous references to Mackay Sugar Co-op.
Future updates: The next LRRSA CD-ROM will contain all issues of Light Railways and all issues of Light Railway News. Purchasers of Light Railway News on CD-ROM will be eligible for a substantial discount on the next CD-ROM.
Photographs and Maps: The main purpose of LRN on CD-ROM is to provide rapid access to all the text. Nevertheless, all of the 423 illustrations in the original printed editions have been included. The quality of their reproduction on screen is partly dependent on your computer.
System requirements:
Operating system - Windows 3.1, or Windows 95, or Windows NT 3.5 or higher.
CPU - minimum 386
Hard disk space 2 MB
Double speed CD-ROM drive or faster.
