Apologies to all those who see this email twice, but I accidentally sent it via yahoo groups rather than to groups.io - thanks to Philip Graham for letting me know. Light Railways 264 - December 2018

Dear all, Members of the Welsh Highland Heritage Railway in Porthmadog, working with colleagues from the Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railway are pleased to announce the only surviving Welsh Highland R

Light Railways 264 is in the hands of the printer. So people can make their plans the meeting details for December are here: http://lrrsa.org.au/LRR_Meetings.html NOTE: The Melbourne meeting is at the

Dear all, Further to the below email thread I am now back in the UK. If you are interested I have uploaded several collections of images from my trips whilst in Australia. The Pichi Richi Coffee Pot i

Hello all, Some updates and useful websites for mapping and similar information: The Vicmap Interactive Map (http://services.land.vic.gov.au/maps/interactive.jsp) and Forest Explorer (nremap-sc.nre.vi

The following event may be of interest to those in the vicinity of Wandong (Victoria) tomorrow. The display will include some items of light-railway interest. This Saturday October 13th at the Wandong

Dear all, If you were interested in my photos from Pichi Richi, I have also uploaded a collection showing the Afghan Express service from Port Augusta to Quorn and some lineside photography too. Take

Hello all, A little OT but this may be of interest to some of you; from the Urban Developer email list during the week: https://theurbandeveloper.com/articles/secret-tunnels-provide-sydney-development

Dear all, At this point I would normally apologise for filling your inboxes with emails plugging photo albums on Flickr about a visit to a narrow gauge railway somewhere in the UK... Today is no excep

All, Light Railways 263 (October 2018) was packed last night, and is now in the hands of Oz Post. With luck and a trailing wind members should begin to receive the magazine, and the four inserts so ca

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

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

Dear all, I called in at Waunfawr on the Ffestiniog Railway's Welsh Highland Railway today. The new-build 'Lyn' from the Lynton & Barnstaple Railway was visiting. It looks similar to a Puffing Billy N

I¹m not aware if any fort sites ever had light railways within them for the transport of munitions, but if readers are aware of anything published in this area, it may be of interest to the researcher

Dear all, Greetings from the United Kingdom. On Sunday I visited the 15" gauge Kirklees Light Railway. Visit: https://www.kirkleeslightrailway.com/ They were holding there annual gala and this culmina

Its good to see somebody reads the RAHS News… The study is firmly in the pre-nineteenth century period so many light railways are excluded. However I was thinking of Cockatoo Island as being such a si

For those interested in current light railway operations, there has been a possible sighting of narrow gauge tunnelling locomotives at the Marrickville site for the Sydney Metro. If anyone can go to t

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,

Project overview Sydney Metro, City & Southwest line, Chatswood~Marrickville - JHCPBG jv (C) - TBM DoubleShield 7.0 m od x 4 x X XXX m (_/19~_/2x); TBM Hybrid MixedShield/Slurry 7.0 m od x 1 x 700 m {

Does anyone have access to photographs of the engines and other equipment used on the salt railway from Muston to Salt Lake. I’m anxious to obtain quality photos for display to recognise these engines