Hear, hear. Distrustful for a myriad of very good reasons.

I hope that similar information will continue to be published on this Group website for as long as is possible, because I am one of the "old fogies" who is distrustful of F....bk. Mind you, I guess

Hello all. A new Facebook Group has been set up called 'Light Railways of Australia'. It has been designed to serve the similar purpose to this Yahoo Group. Contributions by members of this Group

Dear all, Apologies in advance if you are offended, but this email is totallyoff-topic... Last month I plugged links to three albums of images of narrow gaugerailways in Germany (see below). My

Michael, A BIG DAY on the Welshpool & Lianfair Railway. I had the opportunity to travel on that line back in 2001 and enjoyed the experience. I am still active as editor of Australian Railway

Dear all, Another weekend - another gala in Wales. Last weekend the 2'6" gauge Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway (http://www.wllr.org.uk/) in mid Walesheld their annual steam gala. It was great

Dear all, Greetings from the United Kingdom. Last weekend I visited the two foot gauge Bala Lake Railway for theirgala. It was really good with five quarry Hunslets in steam. I've uploaded a

Thanks for the great responses!!! Some of the cane lines to the wharves were **proposed** as non standard cane tramway gauges eg the PWD annual report 1894 Jan to 1895 June has a couple of three

Trove’s Facebook has announced over 8,000 images from Brisbane Libraries are now in Trove. The following gives the main link and just add something railway related after the search term that appears

Irrelevant anecdote: At Fen Ditton in England, all water traffic is required to cross over twice in quick succession. Given that the river is sharply S shaped, this probably counts as "Logical if not

Yes, the 'Left Bank' in Paris, for example.

Recently, when trying to determine the same quandary to a river system in India where it was described that "...a tunnel project started from the Right Bank of the reservoir..." - this equated to the

Who knows what logic they used in 1892, but that regime is contrary to the current "rules of the road" for channel markers whereby a starboard marker is to be passed to the starboard side when

That is certainly standard usage and has presumably not changed over the years. Google left bank right definition downstream to get numerous references.

You are correct. Left and Right according to the direction the water flows, downstream. John

The 1892 NSW government wharves list uses the left and right side of river terminology. Cudgen wharf is shown as right bank and Tweed Heads left bank. That only matches if heading downstream. Any folk

Hi All, Two very popular books have returned to the LRRSA Online Shop. Puffing Billy Preservation Society have released an updated version of "CLIMAX - a locomotive resurrected", revised to include

I called in at Mt Werong, South East of Oberon, on the weekend. An information board there showed a map of the nearby Ruby Creek mine. The map shows a "railway". Does anyone know anything about

Dear all, Greetings from England. Thank you for the latest issue of Light Railways - a super issue asalways. A couple of weeks ago I uploaded some images to Flickr showing my recenttrip to

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