I think this was the Parkes Observatory radio telescope. If so it's part in the moon landing was covered in a movie called "The Dish", starring Sam Neill. For more on this see: https://en.wikipedia.or

Do you know if Air Mail still getting out of Australia to the wider would - like to the UK?

The LRRSA has a new book out - "Choppers and Chippers" by Norm Houghton. Can anyone tell me how much information in this book covers logging tramways? There's no real information on this point in the

I am also on other groups that have made the switch and as far as I can remember all the ordinary members saw was a single message saying that they were now a member of the "new" group, with an option

There is also the question on many turntables - especially the man-worked ones - of getting the loco properly balanced, so that it could be turned. The loco's centre of gravity may well not be at the

I can't see how it would be practical to "swap bogie gear for 4-wheel', as they are so different. But maybe some old 4-wheel passenger cars were still knocking around? I don't know about Australia, bu

My copy of 257 arrived in the UK this morning.

I saw quite a few of steam locos in Indonesia (Java) with ordinary oil drums fitted across the top of the boiler, to carry oil for the firebox. Some others had rectangular tanks in this position for t

Funny thing is that, while everyone seems to be emailing that "its just reached here", it still hasn't appeared on the LRRSA website!!

It arrived this morning in the UK.

Arrived today in the UK

I think these were known in England as "Bridge Rails".

david.halfpenny@... [LRRSA] wrote: Not really true - the Southern Railway used the Whyte system like everyone else in England when talking about wheel arrangements. Using "21C" as the class nu

Doesn't the wheel camber do the same job in a rail vehicle that a differential does in a road vehicle? I seem to recall that many 4-wheel drive cars have a differential on each axle and another one in

My copy has arrived here (the UK) this morning.

Sentinel produced their own first steam locos by putting their road steam power units into the chassis of conventional steam locos. Only when they had proved the concept that way did they produce thei

Arrived in the UK this morning - that's fast!!

Looks great! I've already put my money down for a copy; just waiting for it to arrive in July.

I don't think these points are capable of taking normal flanged wheels - look at the way the funicular haulage rope passes through the "blade rails". Any conventional flanged wheel would foul the one

This was known as "bunkering".