A puzzle for NSW railway mileage enthusiasts if interested; The NSW Government Gazette 18 June 1895 noted sugar cane and timber to be loaded or unloaded at the sidings to be constructed at 103 miles 6

Some up-dates on possible construction railways (tunnel locomotives) Forrestfield-Airport Link - SI/NRW jv (C) https://thewest.com.au/news/transport/perth-rail-tunnel-to-forrestfield-first-pictures-re

It's interesting to hear of Cletracs up in Queensland. In the 1920s and 30s they were the only oversnow vehicles to operate in substantial numbers, mostly to Victorian Railways owned ski hotels such a

Very interesting Peter. Great to hear your research is getting results. I'm looking forward to your article (as I'm sure is the Hon Editor). . . and what a tongue-twister first thing in the morning -

Hi Folks, The topic is the Tweed district’s CSR Condong Mill / Crabbes Creek sugar tramway’s Cletrac / Cleveland Tractor Company loco whose introduction at Crabbes Creek I traced via Trove to 1921 htt

The mail-out team did a sterling job last night, packing the magazine and no less than five inserts. The mag is now in the hands of Australia Post and (with luck) in members' letter boxes from early n

Stuart In my readings to date, the WestConnex project contractors are going for NATM tunnelling with roadheaders - nasty looking beasts with arms topped by whirling balls of very sharp teeth! The reas

Dear all, Apologies for filling your inbox with what could be considered spam. I've just returned from Germany (again). I've uploaded a collection of images from the two foot gauge Mecklenburg Pommers

Posted, as received: STATEMENT FROM THE BOARD OF RICHMOND VALE RAILWAY MUSEUM The Board wishes to thank emergency services for their efforts in fighting the Richmond Vale fire, which has caused signif

Thanks Peter, Must be a "work in progress", so keep watching! I checked "jetty". Only about 5/8ths of the BCC's jetty images are on Trove so far. i.e Of the ones I mentioned in LR256, the tramway on t

David Can you post somewhere a screenshot of your FB LRRSA basic page, please? I still have not yet "...bitten the bullet..." -PGG-

New trams arriving http://ridetheg.com.au/glink-greets-newest-vehicles-g/ Cheers Peter Cokley

All, The LRRSA Online Shop will be unavailable during a "minor outage" on September 25, between 9am and 1pm. It is not clear whether this outage will be for the entire four hour period, or for a just

Oops, a difficult topic that one of the previous discussion! Hopefully this entry can be an example of keeping this site flowing with interesting information and discussion. Just expanding a little on

G'day, Yahoo groups provides easily accessible storage for community files and photos of interest - I'm given to understand that FB doesn't provide this facility ? David, does your method insulate you

G'day, I found that Adblock/Plus was becoming less and less useful. "uBlock Origin" seems to be more effective and with greater control - it has a facility to block large media elements that many web

I hope that similar information will continue to be published on this Group website for as long as is possible, because I am one of the "old fogies" who is distrustful of F....bk. Mind you, I guess e-

Greetings all, The LRRSA Shop has some new or updated, or "missing in action" publications available. A new book is another of Nick Anchen's wonderful series. Titled "Iron Roads in the Outback" the bo

Hello all. A new Facebook Group has been set up called 'Light Railways of Australia'. It has been designed to serve the similar purpose to this Yahoo Group. Contributions by members of this Group are

Dear all, Apologies in advance if you are offended, but this email is totally off-topic... Last month I plugged links to three albums of images of narrow gauge railways in Germany (see below). My trip