Light Railways
Nos 26 to 50
Summer 1968 to Summer 1974-75
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No. 42 Summer 1972-73:
- Upper Acheron Tramways (Victoria)
- The Harman Geared Locomotive (Tyers Valley Tramway, Victoria)
- Letters
- Catherine Hill Bay Railway, NSW
- Reminiscences of a Fireman, Queensland
- To Rocky Bluff, Queensland
- Locomotives of the Marrawah Tramway, Tasmania
- Early locomotives of Jarrahdale, Western Australia
- Locomotive valve gears
- News, Notes & Comments
- New 610mm gauge railway in the ACT
- Goondah - Burrinjuck Tramway, New South Wales
- Metropolitan Water, Sewerage & Drainage Board, New South Wales
- Van Diemen Light Railway Society, Tasmania
- Welcome Swamp Revisited, Tasmania
- Tramway remains at Platina, Victoria
- Yarra Junction station opened as a museum, Victoria
- Rubicon Forest timber tramways, Victoria
- M&MBW Thomson River - Yarra Tunnel, Victoria
- Lake View & Star Tramway, Western Australia
- Sixty years ago - tramway disaster
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No. 37 Spring 1971:
- Reminiscences of a fireman: Isis Central Mill (Queensland)
- News, Notes & Comments
- Australian Narrow Gauge Museum Society (Queensland)
- Qunaba Sugar Mill, Bundaberg (Queensland)
- Bingera Sugar Mill, near Bundaberg (Queensland)
- Timber tramways in the Maydena/Kallista (Tasmania)
- Traction engine locomotives in north-west Tasmania
- Tullah tramway (Tasmania)
- Waratah: Emu Bay Railway Company; Mount Bischoff Tin Mining Company (Tasmania)
- Geelong Steam Preservation Society (Victoria)
- Moondara tramway (Victoria)
- State Electricity Commission, Royston tramway (Victoria)
- Letters
- North Mount Lyell Railway
- Railways in the far south - the Leprena sawmill tramway
- Trewhella Bros timber tramway, Trentham
- Rottnest Island tramway
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No. 36 Winter 1971:
- Timber Tramways of the Rubicon Forest 1916-1935 (Victoria)
- Cornwall Coal Mine (Tasmania)
- News, Notes & Comments
- Macknade and Victoria Mills (Queensland)
- Ida Bay Railway (Tasmania)
- Geelong Steam Preservation Society (Victoria)
- Long Tunnel Gold Mining Company, Walhalla, Victoria
- Letters
- Baguley Steam Locomotives in South Australia
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No. 35 Autumn 1971:
- The Lune River Railway (Ida Bay Railway) (Tasmania)
- Gems from the Archives - Marshall traction engine locomotive (Tasmania)
- Letters
- Locomotive preservation in Queensland
- Railways and tramways at Wensleydale, Victoria
- Tramways of the SR&WSC, Victoria
- Baguley Steam Locomotives in South Australia
- News, Notes & Comments
- Zeehan railway station, Tasmania
- Zeehan School of Mines Museum, Tasmania
- Mount Lyell Mining & Railway Company, Tasmania
- North Mount Lyell Railway, Tasmania
- The Williamsford Haulage, Tasmania
- Cardinia Creek Tunnel Construction, Victoria
- Moondarra tramway, Victoria
- McIvor Mini-tour, December 1970, Victoria
- Walhalla & Thomson River Steam Tramway Company, Victoria
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No. 34 Summer 1970:
- The Lal Lal Iron Tramway (Victoria)
- Letters: Locomotive preservation in Queensland; References in Light Railways
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News, Notes & Comments
- Commonwealth Steel Co., Waratah, NSW
- Victoria Mill, Queensland
- ICIANZ Ltd, South Australia
- Kauri Timber Co. Leesville, Tasmania
- Catastrophe at Welcome Swamp, Tasmania
- Nabowla tramway remains, Tasmania
- Cornwall Coal Co., Tasmania
- Geelong Steam Preservation Society, Victoria
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No. 33 Spring 1970:
- Millar's Denmark Railway (Western Australia)
- News, Notes and Comments
- Tarrawingee tramway, NSW
- Tullah tramway, Tasmania
- LRRSA Lal Lal Ironworks Tour, Victoria
- A1 Mine Settlement, Victoria
- Walhalla & Thomson River Steam Tramway, Victoria
- Powelltown tramway, Victoria
- Thomson Valley tramway, Victoria
- Poverty Point Bridge, Victoria
- Letters: Capn Ancocks Pig, South Australia
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No. 32 Winter 1970:
- To Rocky Bluff ... (Queensland)
- The Oceana Tramway (Tasmania)
- Letters
- Baguley steam locomotives in South Australia
- Railways of the Pacific Phosphate Islands
- Ada Valley Report
- News Notes & Comments
- South Maitland Railways
- Tarrawingee Tramway
- Marsden Museum
- Fairymead Sugar
- Qunaba Sugar
- Millaquin Sugar
- Bingera Mill
- A & D Munros Perseverance Logging Tramway
- Mount Lyell
- Australian Newsprint Mills, Maydena
- Geelong Steam Preservation Society
- State Rivers & Water Supply Commission - Redcliffs
- Bunning Bros - Donnelly River Mill line
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No. 31 Autumn 1970:
- Aerial Photography as an Aid to Tramway Research
- The Glenelg Breakwater Construction Tramway (South Australia)
- Letters
- Railways of Christmas Island
- Baguley steam locomotives in Australia
- The Forester Tramway
- Stannary Hills & Irvinebank Tin Mining Tramways
- News, Notes & Comments
- South Maitland Railway
- State Public Offices, Melbourne
- AETA/LRRSA Yallourn-Morwell Tour
- Ada Valley Report (Victoria)
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No. 30 Summer 1969:
- Stannary Hills and Irvinebank Tin Mining Tramways (Queensland)
- News, Notes and Comments
- Racecourse Mill, Mackay
- Farleigh Mill
- Mount Isa Mines
- Chesterman & Company - locomotive found in Derwent Valley
- Geelong Steam Preservation Society
- Decauville locomotive at Echuca
- LRRSA visit to Waranga reservoir tramway
- Gems from the archives
- Recent Research Discoveries
- Letters
- Steel-framed tramway bogies at Neerim South
- Silverton Tramway
- Gin Gin mill
- The Forester Tramway
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No. 29 Spring 1969:
- Railways of the Territory of Christmas Island
- Poverty Point Bridge (Victoria)
- MMBW South-eastern Sewer Project (Victoria)
- Recent Research Discoveries
- The Forester Tramway (Tasmania)
- Interesting Proposals
- Letters
- Hume Reservoir Construction
- The Silverton Tramway
- Yarra Junction Station
- Victoria Dock Construction
- News, Notes and Comments
- Moreton mill
- Fairymead mill
- Plane Creek mill
- North Eton mill
- Racecourse mill
- Pleystowe mill
- Marian mill
- Proserpine mill
- Inkerman mill
- Pioneer mill
- Farleigh mill
- Haughton mill
- Victoria mill
- MacKnade mill
- Burrinjuck tramway locomotive restored
- Ex-BHP Porter locomotive restored
- Commonwealth Portland Cement Ltd
- Hosakin's Steelworks engine returns home
- Coal & Allied Industries
- Zeehan School of Mines Museum
- Lake Margaret tramway
- Poweeltown tramway
- Steel-framed tramway bogies at Neerim South
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No. 28 Winter 1969:
- Tramways of the Rubicon Forest, 1906-1915 (Victoria)
- Tramways of the State Rivers & Water Supply Commission (Victoria)
- News, Notes & Comments
- In Memoriam
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No. 27 Autumn 1969:
- Elphinstone Timber Tramway (Victoria)
- Victoria Dock Construction (Victoria)
- Tasma Hardwood Company (Hobbs) (Tasmania)
- The Dean-Koweingoboora Timber Tramway (Victoria)
- A Visit to Welcome Swamp (Tasmania)
- The Williamsford Haulage (Tasmania)
- News, Notes & Comments
- Letters
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No. 26 Summer 1968:
- The Silverton Tramway (New South Wales)
- News, Notes & Comments
- Letters
- Preserved Locomotives in Australia
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