From the web site of Friends of the Cerberus: www.cerberus.com.au we extract an unusual tramway item regarding the Victorian Navy's monitor HMVS Cerberus that entered service in

During a visit to the HMS Warrior (the first iron warship) at Portsmouth, England, a look in the boiler room revealed a pair of tramways running from the coal bunkers to the firing plates in front

Bill Hanks wrote: Which is why the Royal Navy began to switch to oil firing around 1900! As well as making bunkering _much_ easier, you also needed less crew (goodbye to all those stokers), and it

The rail division of Sydney infrastructure and industrial services company United Group has won more than $127m in new wagon and locomotive rolling stock contracts in the Pilbara region of

Actually Brian is about a decade too early. The first class of major warships to be oil fired was the Queen Elizabeth class of battleships ordered in 1912. After trials c1902-1095 the RN wanted to

The committee of the Eighth Australian Narrow Gauge Convention are please to announce that the 2007 event will be held in Melbourne, Victoria, over Easter at the Carwatha Secondary College, Noble

If Tasmanian / Van Dieman's Land tramways are an interest of yours, maybe this will also interest - http://ehlt.flinders.edu.au/archaeology/research/publications/MAMARS/index.php Item No. 7

I think that $85 for the lot (i.e. 10 reports) is a good deal. Isn’t it great that these are getting out of the University to the real world where Phil can review them for LR, because the only way to

Thanks Iain, Yes, I had to look up "phenomenology" in the dictionary! (and I'm none the wiser after I'd waded through the meaning of "dialectical phenomenology", "transcendental phenomenology" and

Howdee, Been searching the net for info related to our upcoming Fiji trip. Found a number of sugar industry shots I have not seen before. They show the trains, the mill, wharf and

Does anyone know anything about a plate steel girder bridge over a concrete channel containing Throsby’s Creek at Tighes Hill? Unlike most of the bridges in the area it is steel or iron -the rest are

--- Iain Stuart <iain_stuart@...> wrote: Hi Iain, I believe it was used by the tramway system that once ran around Newcastle. Have long planned to get a photo of it but

Hi guys, From tomorrow both John Browning and myself will be away chasing 2fts around Fiji. During this time new applications for membership and approval of initial postings to the group will

hello, I would like to know if the photos of Kembla Steelworks are of narrow gauge or standard gauge ?

wrote: narrow Good morning, Actually very early morning at 03.30. Got very little sleep with the excitment of todays start to 'Operation 2fts and Kava' over in Fiji. Annnnnnyway in

Hello all, LR 191 has been printed and according to our normal schedule it would have gone into the mail yesterday or tomorrow. Unfortunately it will be delayed about a week due to a peeling

Details of the October meetings are given below. The locations are as in the past, and details can be found in any issue of "Light Railways". ADELAIDE: This meeting was rescheduled and has already

From "Depot Diary" No. 78, December 2004, newsletter of the the Valley Heights Locomotive Heritage Museum, Blue Mountains Division, New South Wales Rail Transport Museum. (

Re narrow gaueg ash tramways on the NSWGR, Jim Longworth has published an article on these (in the ARHS Bulletin from memory) and trawled through official photos of these interesting 'little

Further to reports in LR190 and LR191, travellers (both actual and armchair) will find some interesting documents