Light Railways

Nos 201 to 225

June 2008 to latest issue

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No. 214 August 2010:

At the time of updating this page Light Railways 214 was running to schedule but full details of the contents were not known to the webmaster, who has since gone walkabout. Details will be updated about 14 August.

No. 213 June 2010:

A fascinating lead article with an excellent range of photographs and maps, along with two good supporting articles. Includes pictures of an A class Climax locomotive in distress, and a most unusual little Hunslet locomotive.

No. 212 April 2010:

No. 211 February 2010:

A very interesting issue, especially if you are interested in timber tramways - of northern New South Wales and southern Tasmania!

No. 210 December 2009:

No. 209 October 2009:

Includes a very interesting report on a visit to the site of the 2ft gauge tramways at Tarrawingee, north of Broken Hill which served about twelve limestone quarries in the late nineteenth century.


No. 208 August 2009:


No. 207 June 2009:

No. 206 April 2009:

A very interesting mix of articles in this issue. The second article includes much background information on the Condong sugar mill's tramways in northern New South Wales.

The Heritage & Tourist section includes a review of the effects of recent bushfires on Victorian preserved light railways.

No. 205 February 2009:

The lead article describes a 2 ft gauge tramway which used two internal combustion locomotives and a Krauss 0-4-0WT. In places the tramway almost resembled a timber tramway in terms of construction and scenery.

The second article describes an extraordinary tramway built by an Australian company in an extraordinary location to the north-north-east of the Cook Islands, and south of the equator. And it used an extraordinary source of motive-power!

No. 204 December 2008:

The well-illustrated lead article describes an historically significant Fowler six-coupled locomotive of unusual appearance which worked on sugar tramways at Childers, Queensland, and later in northern New South Wales. Apart from technical details of the locomotive, it also includes much background material on Childers sugar mill, which was one of the earliest big sugar mills to close - in 1932.

No. 203 October 2008:

Includes a very impressive three-page photo feature on steam locomotives serving sugar mills in Java.

No. 202 August 2008:

No. 201 June 2008:

A very varied issue which should have something to interest all tastes - with a magnificent front cover illustration, a descriptive article on a series of sugar railway branch lines north of Bundaberg, a highly sophisticated steam locomotive used in a swamp, an 0-4-2T locomotive which was the centre of a custody dispute; and small German diesel locomotives in Australia.