Light Railways 240 - the "bumper" December 2014 issue - was packed last night and is now in the hand of Australia Post. Members should be receiving their copies early next week. For non-members, look

The LRRSA Shop is pleased to be able to stock the wonderful new publication from the Australian Narrow Gauge Railway Museum, Salute to the Hudswells. RRP is $35.00 (plus postage) or just $31.50 to mem

Hello Chris, Thanks for the warning. I assume this error was generated by Sophos? For some reason that software continually marks the lrrsa web site as being malware, although there is absolutely no i

It certainly sounds like a good project for a budding author. John

Hello Brian, There's been chapters in books and articles in LR. Off the top of my head the only books which are exclusively North East Dundas are Christian Cenac's book "K1 1st Garratt in Tasmania" wh

Hello All, Sent out with the most recent magazine was a brochure advertising Nick Anchen's new book "Railways of Tasmania's Wild West". The LRRSA Online Shop now has stocks of this book, which was wel

Hello All, RCL Publications have released a wonderful and very comprehensive book covering the British light railway operations during World War 1. The book is subtitled "A unique record of British 60

This information was just passed on to me. Very good to see. John Team, attached is a photo of the test run we did immediately following the boiler inspector’s sign off (6 July). The official relaunch

I've been looking into how the renewal (and subscription) payments work. It seems as though although the email address is shown as mandatory on the form you fill in with name, address, etc, that email

Ha! Whilst overseas recently I received an email from ARHS (Vic) advising me that I had not renewed. The email was sent from the secretary directly to me, not to a mailing list. As I wasn't really abl

Hi Stephen, I subscribe to magazines where this is done. But they tend to have renewals for twelve months from whenever you first subscribe, so can expire on any month. The LRRSA membership always exp

I have always thought that is more likely to be the use of AWB - Automatic White Balance - with the camera trying to work out what the colour temperature is. Were the interior photos taken with the co

The WAGR never had a steam locomotive classified as "Y". I assume that they are ex-SAR locomotives, sold to contractors. John

Brian, I think I picked up the file by clicking on the "visit your group" link, and then searching the files list for StKilda--2-6-2 (2).doc John

Hi Frank, Did you attach the message? It's not attached on the email I received. I assume from your comments that the trip starts from Whitehorse. That's easier to reach than Skagway, where I assume t

Fascinating 1958 images of Midland. Zoom in on the coal pool and check out the number of stored (condemned?) steam locos lined up alongside. http://maps.google.com/gallery/details?id=zkHU3l6hb1io.k7tv

Light Railways No. 236 April 2014 has just been mailed out to the members. It's another interesting issue, with the lead articles being tramways in New South Wales and Tasmania. The Field Reports sect

That's really wierd. Pleased that by downloading the file it looks fine. John

Hello Chris, Any errors on the first page are mine. But it says "13 to 235" on the copy on my PC, and also when I (since receiving your email) clicked on the lrrsa.org.au link and downloaded the file

Hello all, With many thanks to Ian McNeil, an updated index to Light Railways, covering all articles, letters, reports, reviews, news - the whole box and dice - is now available. It is a free download