Thanks for the Central Norseman information from 1953, David I have the following battery locomotives listed for this company. They don’t fully add up to the figures quoted. Mancha 1988/1939

Light Railways was posted at Emerald, Victoria this morning. With the new Australia Post delivery schedule it could apparently take until 17 February to reach you if you live in a remote location, but

There are a couple of photos showing Greenbat locos in the UK here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/55958391@N07/albums/72157645077232786 Michael Chapman Follow my railway adventures on Flickr

Hello all Attached are two pages from a 1953 booklet produced on Central Norseman operations. You’ll see it lists two Goodman and eight Greenbat locos. A series of these booklets were

I can't answer this question (and there were another six G&B locos built from 1952 to 1957), but wonder if anyone knows what loco or locos predated the G&Bs, for The West Australian of 11 Feb 1947

I have had a quick look at A J Booth's Greenwood book and that is certainly what is printed, I cannot see any explanation but works number 1833 (order 82525) for Columbia dispatch date 16-2-50 is also

I was going through the table of Greenbat locos in LR 242 and noticed something odd. Contract 82326, works No 2196 of 1948 and contract 82559, works No 1832 of 1950 were both supplied to Central

This is absolutely gutting, even for those of us who can’t visit. It set me to re-reading Gunzberg & Austin: “Rails Through the Bush” which is the only book I have on Yarloop. On p55 there’s a

Tweed tramway remnant; Rolled Steel Joist (RSJ) bridge over Leddays Creek on Leddays CreekRd, NSW. It is 340 meters off Tweed Valley Way which is theformer Pacific Highway. The bridge, which is

In a message dated 19/01/2016 23:07:00 GMT Standard Time,Chapmanmchapman@... writes: Following the sad news regarding the closure of the SGTR, I have uploaded some photos to Flickr. Please

Newspaper picture of the construction of the track for theCurrumbin Bird Sanctuary 1963. Source data is on the newspaper article itself

Hello folks, Happy New Year! The attached link has a lot of interesting NSW, QR, Tas etc railway photos. Of particular interest are some of the narrow gauge/canefields images scattered throughout. For

What a terrible shame, a beautifully presented place by the look of it. Can anyone tell me about the spring points with the moveable frog that is toward the beginning of the video? I am researching

and the Pinjarra and Walhalla track fires of several years ago.

and trams etc at Loftus

Sadly, I never visited. I drove past in September this year, but having already decided that we would return to Perth in a year or two, decided to put off a visit until then. Very bad decision... The

G’Day, I visited Yarloop on two occasions. Each time I met interesting andfriendly volunteers and was fascinated with the history of the museum. Its loss is very sad. My sympathies also go to those

Hi all for those on the list who are unfamiliar or have never heard of Yarloop previously, check out the Photo Gallery, Slideshow and History Links links at Yarloop Workshops Inc Official Homepage -

In deed, very sad news. Yarloop Loco Depot and Sawmill complex was the best living museum site that I have seen in Australia. The collection of rolling stock; pattern shop, with all the masters; saw

Very sad news. I regret not stopping in Yarloop in 2014. Regards Geoffrey To: LRRSA@... From: LRRSA@... Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2016 22:07:17 -0800 Subject: [LRRSA] Yarloop workshops destroyed in bushfire