Hi Folks Since some are not on Facebook, I am advising that John Paff has just released his latest (2021) Aus Tracks Google Earth kmz overlay file. This is sometimes termed the Hairyleg file as that w

Hi John, Worked ok just now. Cheers Peter Cokley

Hi John, What is the situation with online renewals as per your remarks below, system ok now or wait to a public email here that all is ok? Thanks Peter Cokley

Enjoying all the responses to my original question! Seems to a term whose meaning has evolved to suit the need. Cheers Peter Cokley

Thanks Eddie! Over the years I have also noticed some references to what you note as (usually somewhat negatively, to imply some inferior infrastructure quality), so glad you brought up that aspect! T

Thanks Luke! Your context suggests ‘Horse Line’ is just another term for minor branch line? Does the loco work on the ‘horse line’ in your second example? If so, then the term horse line is not determ

Folks, horse lines seem to get an occasional mention over the years in various publications, including marked as such on parish maps and similar, as well in railway / tramway publications, suggesting

Chasing the eventual fate of the two Melbourne suburban carriages ex Melaleuca Station, Chinderah, Tweed River NSW. My interest is more on the 610mm gauge Melaleuca Station tourist tramway but I want

Warning; following is around 254MB file size so huge, so download when you have cheaper internet rates. John Kerr’s database of QLD rail transport, including industrial tramways, up to his 2003 death,

Thanks Peter! I’ll pass that on to the museum! Cheers Peter Cokley

Just checking on behalf on Tweed Shire’s Tweed Regional Museum at Murwillumbah NSW https://ehive.com/collections/5051/tweed-regional-museum Would it be correct to say the following portable steam engi

LRRSA@groups.io Digest #69 Thanks John! I find it interesting that Knox, sitting in his Sydney office, had this sort of detail in his head, certainly a General Manager who earned his pay! Cheers Peter

Wondering if the wire tramway that was used at Gairloch around 1890 for taking the cane across the Herbert River near the Victoria Mill near Ingham QLD, was of the ‘Self-Acting Tramway’ style of wagon

Rail historian Robert Loren DESKINS, Aged 74 Years. Family and friends are invited to his Funeral Service at Hemmant Crematorium, 500 Hemmant Tingalpa Rd, Hemmant, Wednesday 13th, February 2019, comme

John Kerr's full database up to 1990s etc is now on the internet through Fryer Library at The University of Queensland. This is a far more extensive and up to date database compared to the c1970 versi

All ok now as I have John Paff’s details. Cheers Peter Cokley

I have lost John Paff’s email, so John, can you please email me at petanoz@... Usual topic of interest to both of us. Cheers Peter Cokley

Hi John and everyone, Thanks John for all this lovely help!!! Glad you offered some advice on the Terranora ‘funicular’/ ‘balanced incline’ terminology topic as I have seen a few versions of that in T

Image of 1890s cane truck from Fowler Catalogue now on my Google Drive as the earlier link to the group’s files is dodgy. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DDe-L2Z0RPF4-BVfwM-TaD4gcnRH5pbb/view Cheers

Forgot to mention the bogie trucks originally ordered for Duranbah also had brakes, so the proposed swap was for Duranbah’s bogie trucks with brakes for Caleb Marks’ single trucks, with brakes. Cheers