I have been away from all this for so long but I think there is some info in Jane Harrington�s book refereed to earlier and other info may be held by Heritage Vic and the National Trust. Apart from th

Last year when I was working on the Cockatoo Island CMP with Tony Brassil at Godden Mackay Logan we came across a photo that shows what seems to be an electric locomotive pushing some hoppers. It is o

Actually Brian is about a decade too early. The first class of major warships to be oil fired was the Queen Elizabeth class of battleships ordered in 1912. After trials c1902-1095 the RN wanted to ord

I think that $85 for the lot (i.e. 10 reports) is a good deal. Isn�t it great that these are getting out of the University to the real world where Phil can review them for LR, because the only way to

Does anyone know anything about a plate steel girder bridge over a concrete channel containing Throsby�s Creek at Tighes Hill? Unlike most of the bridges in the area it is steel or iron -the rest are

I have little interest in Fiji but I am very interested in problems you are having with the digital photography particularly the Scandisk card. I wasn�t sure what the problem was but I have changed ov

Is there a standard reference work on the steam and electric tramways of Newcastle and suburbs? I tried a search on Libraries Australia without any result. I would be grateful if anyone can point me i

Dick and others, I had a feeling that there was another aerial tramway at Broken Hill so I checked in the mountain of stuff I have on Broken Hill (I am writing a report on mining there). I have a 1932

I�m glad someone else had the same trouble I did � I have just installed IE 7 and was wondering whether it was the fault of the browser. Dr Iain Stuart JCIS Consultants P.O. Box 2397 Burwood North ph/

�Also of interest to industrial archaeologist is the lovely panorama of "Waterloo Brickyards, Thornton" Unfortunately all this had been removed when I surveyed the area in the mid 1990�s. Most of the

This new book may prove to be an interesting Christmas Present – I revived this press release last week “We are delighted to announce the publication of the second volume in our new British Archaeolog

Thanks Frank, I checked it out to with no result. I am now asking for further details. It does seem to me that if I was in the buisness of selling books for a living, I would at least have the books I

Stuart, As Frank said you need to be a bit more specific about what you are looking for in the PROV. There are two general points I could make based on years of experience. 1) Don�t expect archive sta

Apart from Brian Andrews�s book there is an on line resource � A history of the Greta Coal Measures at http://amol.org.au/newcastle/greta/frames.html There is also the on-line search facilities of NSW

A review of the plans in Edgeworth David's Geology of the Hunter River Coal Measures reveals the colliery to be the Denton Park colliery, which according to the Index to the Dept of Mines Annual Repor

Brad, Good basis for a layout with all those RTR wagons promised for this year. There is a 1984 SRA diagram of Neath on the ARHS Signal CD. I would suggest aerial photography especially using a stereo

Bill, Thanks for the tip. When I was working for the Victorian Government I somehow got a pass that let me into all the areas containing all the aerials and I could have got what I needed instead of h

It seems quite common for untouched wildernesses to have historical sites in them. I once cleared 7.5ha of untouched wilderness of wandering Jew and other crap to record the two phases of sawmilling a

This has been an interesting discussion which brought home to me the complexities of making a decision about gauge. In most railway histories the question has been glossed over as a political decision

If the photos are inaccurately captioned I am sure that the NSW State Library would welcome an email correcting their caption from an authoritative source such as the LRRSA. yours Dr Iain Stuart JCIS