Light Railways pdf downloads

Many early issues of Light Railways back-numbers are now out of print.

The LRRSA is gradually making them available as pdf downloads from the LRRSA Online Shop.

These files are quite large (1.5 MB to 5 MB) and they take up a lot of room on our website. They also require a lot of work to prepare. So we need to charge for them so that they can earn their keep.

This page explains:

How the pdf downloads work

After you have entered the pdf downloads into your shopping cart, and after you have entered your credit card details via DirectOne you will get an invoice from DirectOne indicating that payment has been made.  

You then need to click the blue text on this invoice to return to our Online Shop.

You will see an order confirmation screen and at the bottom of it will be the names of your download files.

You just click these to download them.  

After you log out of our Online Shop you can still come back to it to download again, so if anything goes wrong in the dowload process you have not lost anything.

You are allowed at least a week to download the files, and may download each one five times.

Having a second try at downloading

The way to get back to your download files if you need to have a second try is to do the following:  

  1. Go to our Online Shop and "log yourself in".  
  2. Click "My Account" (up towards the top right of the screen)  
  3. You will now see a screen listing your "Previous Orders" close to the top of the screen.  
  4. Click "VIEW" against your order.  
  5. At the bottom of the next screen you will see "Download links".

Each of the pdf products you purchased will be listed there, and you can click on them to download again. You are allowed to download each item up to five times, for a period of seven days.  

Finally if anything goes really wrong just send us an email (lrrsa@lrrsa.org.au) and we can fix it one way or another!  

Doing global searches

If you have purchased a number of the LR back-number pdf's it is possible to globally search through all of them using Adobe Reader (formerly known as Adobe Acrobat).

For example, if you have issues Nos 5 to 25 and store them in one directory called say "My documents\LR backnumbers" and you want to find all references to "Zeehan" here is what you do:  

  1. In Adobe Reader go to the "Edit" menu and click on "Search".  
  2. A window will appear in the right hand side of the screen, with the following questions:  

Adobe Reader will start the search and come back with entries for LR16, 18, 22, 24, and 25. You can then click on the individual entry and it will display the relevant page of the document on the left of the screen.