If this horrible link works http://www.lrrsa.org.au/Light%20railway%20locations%20in%20South%20Australia%20NT%20and%20Broken%20Hill%2031Dec2015.pdf you will find some reference to the tramway on page

Sam, Could ‘Deanville’ be a miss-spelling of ‘Decauville’? Decauville was a French company that developed a lightweight portable railsystem and the name became a generic name for such

There is an interpretive sign at East Point in Darwin which references a 'Deanville' tramway used to transport ammunition between the magazine and the WW2 gun emplacements. I have attached a photo of

Using the link John provided suggests horse whim loading arrangement were reasonably common for rail operations. Seems they could be used for any load such as cane or wood or bags of coal etc.

Thanks John!! I have now googled horse whim so I have just learnt what that is. The horse one was 1922 yet the 1924 advertisement stated hand and motor derricks provided so maybe it could depend on

The photo here http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article163129940 shows that horse derricks were powered by a whim arrangement. John

Location is Crabbes Ck transhipment yards between CSR tramway and NSWGR to Condong mill Tweed Rive for the 1920s. General question on the NSWGR on what was a horse derrick? Another type quoted when I

Since many seem to be using Endnotes for manage research references, I might share an online help guide from the University of QLD's library website. This URL only goes to the main link so it is up to

Extra Irvinebank online maps, scale one inch mile, thanks to Monty on QRIG for alerting me to them. From QLD Government DNRM

Hi John, They should be still available later this year as I have no intention of closing down my Google Drive site as it is too useful. Everyone else on this LRRSA group, please note, same for

Hi Peter, I am most interested in the Irvinebank maps, but have just left on a two month road trip. Will these files still be available in September? John sent from my Sony Xperia

Irvinebark Tramway QSA Series ID 17622 IID 114495 Irvinebank Tramway M.L. No 2575 No 1 1909 4MB (Track survey data) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mAmJD2t8OkNb5upfbiIq3V3NhpoCAeNc/view QSA Series

Maps from QLD State Archives Runcorn Cooktown railway wharf 1958? https://drive.google.com/file/d/1inE3GYjM3DZWV9bVxsKA96kR7LmvF5dc/view Cooktown railway town area

Hi John, Still a regularly used resource for me mate. Brad

Hello all, As part of my upcoming move to the NBN and the change of Internet provider to Telstra (since I can no longer have separate phone and Net providers), I will lose my Chariot/TPG web

Found this news item in the latest Pakenham Gazette.

Hunslet, Delete all of the 'address' after; .au Then go to the site and copy " 10381/137270" into the search box. This will bring up the image. Geoff.

Melbourne, Victoria, Yarra Bank, post-1890, site of today's Hamer Hall, some sort of small engineering operation. I have been working on this one for a while but don't have all the details yet

Aaaah yes, that works. Thanks. Peter Neve Junee

http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/137270 This is the correct link. Rod Hutchinson Mooroolbark Australia