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

Regretfully, the link doesn’t want to work! Hunslet.

Rod, it's a detail from this image http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/137270 of the south bank of the Yarra next to Princes Bridge - now the site of Hamer Hall. Colin

The facebook group Victorian Railway History (Australia) has had several photos of light-railway interest recently. Frank has responded to some of them there. I am reposting, in the hopes of gaining

Many,many thanks for the pictures and all your work. Ian (Germany)

Thanks for those interesting comments John. In the early 1980s I had the privilege of interviewing Alf Milner at Yarra Junction, he was 79 at the time, and had worked with timber tramway horses in the

Dear all, Apologies for filling your inboxes again... I've been taking photos again, this time of the two foot gauge Welsh Highland Heritage Railway in Porthmadog. Take a look if you're

Thanks Frank The conditions appear to be hot and dusty. It was interesting to see the driving technique – mostly braking I guess as the horses would be well motivated by the prospect of knock-off

The link below is to the YouTube video "From the Bush to the Bungalow" which shows horse tramway operations on Horner & Monett's 3 ft gauge timber tramway about 3 km east of Powelltown, Victoria. The

Any thoughts on selling LRRSA books as a PDF? Maybe they already exist as PDFs somewhere in LRRSA HQ as they may have been prepared in that or similar format to send to the printer. My local museum

Light Railways 261, the June issue, and the last of the current membership year, was packed by a willing team of volunteers last night, and handed over to Australia Post today. Perhaps a week later

It says 12,000 in the newspaper. Fake News! John

I haven't checked the reference, but surely that £12,000 should be £1,200. Richard Horne

Dick, n_andrews@..., of course. Regards, Richard Horne

Bruce, That is an interesting find, it would be very nice to know the answer - or perhaps to be a fly-on-the-wall when they made the discovery. John

This afternoon, I was looking through some old newspapers on Trove and came across the following interesting snippet. One wonders whether the South Burwood Coal Company realised the loco they were

Correct address is n_andrews@... replaced the (dot) with a . Jeff

Dick, You will have to replace the (dot) with a real dot. John

My Outlook doesn’t like the address you gave for the author. Is it correct? Dick Holland Broken Hill

Volume 1 of "Coal, Railways & Mines - The Railways and Collieries of the Greta & South Maitland Coalfields" by Brian Robert Andrews is now available. This book has a red cover & is the companion to