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

QLD State Archives Instagram of cane stalks on a horse drawn wagon. Cane vertical not horizontal. Actually this post is really an excuse to try out the new group and thanks everyone who helped the

Good morning all - this message is coming from the new LRRSA Group at groups.io The old group at Yahoo will remain in existence but I will be closing it to placement of new messages in a few days.

Hello all, This is a follow up to my message of 7 May in which I prematurely advised of the transfer of this Group from Yahoo to groups.io. The transfer of this Group is now about to start. It may

There is still sugar cane growing in the Royal Botanic Gardens, although clearly it doesn't grow fast or prolific enough to be commercially viable in Sydney. My understanding is TA Scott owned a big

Bit of rail trivia I found in that CSR book regarding a link between sugar and the suburb and station Tascott, near Gosford NSW. It was named after Thomas Alison Scott as in TA Scott, which gives

Hello all, It seems my message below was premature. You can continue sending messages to this Group, at least for the time being. The transfer process has come to a

Hello all, Could you please refrain from sending any messages on this group until I let you know it is OK to do so. As a result of the suggestions from several members I am about to start the