David, Thanks for your reply. The closest I can find is the Woodford Baugley. I was there in March and quite impressed with it. So much so that I managed to find an Accucraft model going spare. I had

The Baguley loco at Woodford is ex Mulgrave Mill 1, Baguley 3377 of 1953,Type BG6. Drewry Car Company Ltd (who were an agency) had nothing to do with this locomotive, which was supplied to the

-------------------------------------------------- Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 1:57 AM To: <LRRSA@...> Subject: [LRRSA] Baugley Drewery Loco. Henrik I've got a book about

Hi Guys, I am looking for some drawings for the above mentioned loco for a project. Does anyone know where I can source a set? I have the Accucraft model and seen one in the flesh at Woodford on a

Hi there, A little while ago I requested any drawings anyone might have for a Perry 0-6-2 steam loco of the Queensland 2ft gauge cane fields. I was emailed a General arraingment from a member who I

As part of this morning's update of the LRRSA website, a roster of the diesel locomotives of the Port Kembla steelworks has been added as a pdf download. It has been prepared by Brad Peadon, and has

Light Railways No.216 was posted yesterday (Friday) and a minor update has been made to the website to add details of the magazine. Regards, Frank

Hi All, I am writing my regular Narrow Gauge Downunder column on this amazing event at Walhalla. I was there on the Sunday, in the wet, and my photographs do not do justice to the day. Although I

Thanks everyone who responded, both on and off line, I think that Steve has information (and potential further contacts) to make his 7/8" loco erection drawings... even if, like many of us, the model

I was fascinated to read the items about the Kiama blue metal tramway and thank the several contributors for some very interesting information As a very young enthusiast in the 1940s I walked the

It appears that the new operators of Timbertown have been active in ensuring that 2ft gauge operations resume soon. The resumption date is fixed for 15 December. Apparently they are looking for

From information that I have, all three steam tram motors were scrapped in 1938, but I have no idea in which month(s). Tram motor 11A was sent to Railways Bombo Quarry, ex-Newcastle, in

Further to the comments on Bombo Railway Quarry I can confirm that the three steam trams were in service at Bombo by a document containing fusible plug change records being boiler numbers 11A,

G'day I have a US modelling colleague who is thinking of building a Baldwin DH such as Coolum in 7/8" scale and is looking for the equivalent of erection drawings... particularly drawings of the

Hi Mike Looking on the NLA website one of the articles was about the shays for the Wolgan Valley been erected at Everley workshops for Gibson Battle. Neville

Hi Neville, Gibson Battle were the agents for the Shay locomotive in Australia. There was series of articles about the Kiama Tramway by Ken McCarthy in Trolley Wire, issues 166,167 & 168 in 1976. It

Hi all Thanks for the information on the Kiama tramway. At the museum it gave a timeline of all the locomotives that worked on the tramway to Pikes Hill down Terralong Street to the harbour and to the

Hi Richard, all, The standard gauge higher up in the quarry wouldn't have been for a rail mounted steam navvy, would it? In the Terralong Tracks book there is a photo of a tracked steam navvy simply

Further to my previous comments on the Kiama quarry's internal combustion locos, I've now spoken to Bruce Macdonald.  He confirms that on a visit to the quarry c1947, there were traces of standard

Hi, Just further to the original query, in case this detail was missed, there was more than one tramway in the Kiama area. Aside from the well known ~2' gauge tram, one was standard gauge between