Light Railways
Nos 301 to 309
February 2025 to latest issue
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No. 309 June 2026:
This 48 page edition has the following contents:
- The locomotives of Kelly & Lewis (Vic)
- Rail haulage at Kandos Collieries – Part 1 (NSW)
- Industrial Railway News (14 reports from Australia and Fiji
- Research - Long Journey for the Long Piles – Gray Bros (Tas)
- Field Reports – Mount Bischoff tin mine tramways (Tas)
- Obituary - Scott Clennett
- Letters: Further aspects of the Cossack-Roebourne Tramway (LR307); Archiving light railway materials (LR 300, 302 and 306); Tank Locomotives; Vivonne Bay jetty, Kangaroo Island (LR 307); Timbertown, Wauchope, NSW (LR 308); Great Northern Timber Company bridge site, Woolgoolga, NSW (LR242 and LR288)
- Heritage & Tourist News (10 reports from across Australia)
- Feature Page: Memories of Island Tramways
- Advertising of light railway equipment
No. 310 August 2026:
This 48 page edition has the following contents:
- The tramways of Maria Island, Tasmania
- The Batar Creek Logging Tramway, near Kendall, NSW
- Invincible: white flour, black diamonds – Part 3
- A Hellyer curiosity, Tasmania
- The North British Locomotive Company – What Remains Today
- Industrial Railway News (18 reports from Australia and Fiji
- Field Reports – Hercules Mine incline, Williamsford, Tasmania
- Book Review – Peninsular Tramways
- Letters: Crossing the Burdekin by Cane Train (LR 296); Tank locomotives (LR 309)
- Heritage & Tourist News (11 reports from across Australia)
No. 308 April 2026:
This 48 page edition has the following contents:
- The Lübecker land dredge and its locomotive (Vic)
- A century of timber tramways around Lilydale and Underwood Part 1 – Grubb and Tyson’s tramway (Tas)
- Largs Bay jetty railway (SA)
- Looking Back - Locomotives on the BHP Iron Knob Tramway (SA)
- New locos from Slovakia for BHP’s Olympic Dam mine
- Industrial Railway News (12 reports from Australia
- Field Reports – Goodrich mine and tramway, Yeoval (NSW)
- SA Group Field Trip - Dry Creek Explosives Magazine Reserve
- Letters: Further aspects of the Cossack-Roebourne Tramway (LR307); Hudson Brother’s timber tramways between Tarbuck Brush and Narani (LR 115, 283); Byron Bay passenger tramway (LR 304)
- Obituary – Denys Steinhauser
- Heritage & Tourist News (10 reports from across Australia)
- Richmond Vale Railway (NSW)
No. 307 February 2026:
This 48 page edition has the following contents:
- Further aspects of the Cossack–Roebourne Tramway (WA)
- Mt Macedon Plantation Tramway (Vic)
- Invincible: white flour, black diamonds – Part 2 (NSW)
- Looking Back - Baldwin locomotives on the BHP Iron Knob Tramway (SA)
- Industrial Railway News (15 reports from Australia and Fiji)
- Field Reports – Vivonne Bay Jetty, Kangaroo Island (SA)
- Letters: Byron Bay passenger tramway (LR305); Kim’s Beachfront Retreat, Toowoon Bay, NSW; Revisiting Pier Donkey – No.5 (RS 1177/1857) (LR306)
- Heritage & Tourist News (12 reports from across Australia)
- In the Workshops - Heritage 3 ft 6 in gauge workshop scenes from three states
- Iron Monarch Incline Tramways (SA)
No. 306 December 2025:
This 48 page edition has the following contents:
- The Burraga Copper Mine Tramways
- An overview of industrial overhead wire electric railways Part 2 – Western Australia and South Australia
- Looking Back – Horse haulage in coal mines in the northern coalfields of NSW
- Current operations for Mossman area sugar cane
- Industrial Railway News (16 reports from Australia and Fiji)
- Research – Revisiting Pier Donkey – No.5
- Field Reports – Krauss remains, Evoralls Point, Tasmania
- Letters: The Burraga Copper Mine Firewood Tramway (LR304); Archiving Light Railway Materials (LR300,302,304)
- Book Review – The Art of the Engineman (by Nick Anchen)
- Heritage & Tourist News (19 reports from across Australia)
- Rainbows at Belgrave – Puffing Billy Railway
No. 305 October 2025:
This 48 page edition has the following contents:
- Invincible: white flour, black diamonds (NSW)
- An overview of industrial overhead wire electric light railways Part 1 – Queensland
- Traffic Control at the Port Kembla Steelworks in 1946 (NSW)
- Industrial Railway News: 16 reports from Australia and Fiji
- Field Reports - Stone & Siddeley Ltd concrete pipe factory and sewer tramway (Vic)
- Book Review: On Splintered Rails – the era of the Tasmanian bush-loco – Volume 3
- Letters: Steam locomotive performance in 1976 (LR 304)
- Obituary - Ian Neill
- JLN Southern Aaward 2024
- Heritage & Tourist News: 14 reports from across Australia
- Kandos limestone quarry (NSW)
No. 304 August 2025:
This 48 page edition has the following contents:
- The Burraga Copper Mine Firewood Tramway (NSW)
- Tully Mill Steam Locomotives (Qld)
- Byron Bay's passenger tramway (NSW)
- Looking back - The art of the canefields photographer
- Industrial Railway News: 15 reports from Australia and Fiji
- Letters: O&K locomotives at Mussel Pool; What are we writing, and for whom are we writing? (LR302); Inclines or Declines; Port Pirie Steam (LR302, p48)
- Book Review: Iron Road The Story of the Roebourne – Cossack – Point Samson Tramway
- Heritage & Tourist News: 15 reports from across Australia
- Marysville (Vic)
No. 303 June 2025:
This 48 page edition has the following contents:
- Revisiting the Roebourne, Cossack and Point Samson Tramways – part 2 (WA)
- More on the locomotives of the NSW PWD
- The locomotives of the Soho Iron Works, Ballarat (Vic)
- Looking Back – Tullah's relics (Tas)
- Industrial Railway News: 18 reports from Australia and Fiji
- Research – Max Dupain pictorial – Bass Point quarry, Shellharbour c.1943-46 (NSW)
- Letters: Sewell Engineers and Waranga Basin (LR300 and 301); Re: Memories of G42 in the Otways LR 301, page 48; LRRSA Archives (LR 302 Editorial); Welsh Highland Railway (LR 302)
- Heritage & Tourist News: 10 reports from across Australia and the UK
- Pier Donkey at Outer Harbor, Port Adelaide (SA)
No. 302 April 2025:
This 48 page edition has the following contents:
- W Day & Sons’ rail tractors (Vic)
- Port MacDonnell – its merchants, jetty and tramways – part 2 (SA)
- Looking Back – Newbold Silica Fire-Brick Co. Ltd.
- Industrial Railway News: 13 reports from Australia and Fiji
- Research – An Aramac Addenda (Qld)
- Field Reports: Unknown tramway, McCallums Flat, Shoalhaven River, NSW
- Letters: Scottish Light Railway; LC Leslie - Locomotive Designer (LR301); Restoration of Mallet locomotive (LR301 H&T); Sewell Engineers and the Waranga Basin (LR300); Bennett Brook Railway, Whiteman Park (LR301, p47); British ‘Early Railways’ conferences; Leslie Cecil Leslie – locomotive designer (LR301); Catherine Hill Bay – Looking Back (LR 301)
- Obituary: Philip Graham
- Book Review – Clyde Engineering: The Diesel Years 1948-2000
- Heritage & Tourist News: 11 reports from across Australia and the UK
- Port Pirie steam (SA)
No. 301 February 2025:
This 48 page edition has the following contents:
- Port MacDonnell – its merchants, jetty and tramways – Part 1 (SA)
- An Englishman in Victoria, 1957
- Leslie Cecil Leslie (1889-1966) – locomotive designer
- A few Notes on Tramways
- Meadowbank Manufacturing Memories (NSW)
- Looking Back - Catherine Hill Bay collieries railways (NSW)
- Industrial Railway News - 15 items from Australia and Fiji
- Research – Plateways around Melbourne – addenda (Vic)
- Field Reports - Sugarloaf Point Lighthouse tramway, Myall Lakes National Park, NSW
- Letters: Hudswell Clarke locomotives in the UK (LR300); Sewell Engineers and the Waranga Basin (LR300); North Mount Farrell Combination Carriages (Tullah)
- Book Review: Tullah & Its Tramways
- Heritage & Tourist News - 13 items from across Australia
- Memories of G42 in the Otways