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@hotmail.com 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

Need a bit of background advice please regarding 2 foot gauge 1890s cane trucks and how common was the fitting of brakes and the difference between bogie trucks and what were termed in 1890s as single

Sydney Tramway Museum’s Facebook is reporting our LRRSA yahoogroup member Noel Reed has passed on. "DEPOT ONLY” - vale Noel Reed (b1931 - 19 Dec 2018) https://www.facebook.com/pg/SydneyTramwayMuseum/p

As I assume, like me, you may also occasionally make use of maps printed off the following NSW government website, the following may be of interest. Anyone know of a work around for this, please? http

More about long closed government lines, this 1936 extract from the Commissioners Report includes the Cooktown, Ravenshoe and the Gulf individual totals. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kLWD06d0HIYZD

Some here research long closed government lines so I offer 1955 Tweed, Canungra (last year), Beaudesert, Cleveland (closed 1960 steam era line) and Ipswich lines (still open as rebuilt electric) plus

Hi Folks, Did someone say munitions tramways for a fort???? Well, Fort Lytton at the mouth of the Brisbane River has appeared in the LRRSA yahoogroups at various times and Samboo The Bear, our house c

Thanks Folks! LR s 196 & 197 that John listed now downloaded as PDFs from the LRRSA online bookshop! LR197 even had a loco picture. Cheers Peter Cokley

I am wondering if there is any more tramway data on the Tugun Gold Coast desalination project. Back in LRRSA group message 3197 on Oct. 23, 2009 John Browning wrote the following message, shown below,