Hello all, The LRRSA is proposing to publish a book titled "Australia's Colourful American Locomotives" by David Fletcher. The book is sub-titled "Their art and architecture 1870-1920". The book descr

Light Railways 270 was delivered to the Post Office on Friday morning, so should be dropping into letterboxes early this week. It looks like another cracking issue, highlighted by a lengthy article di

Thanks Richard, that's a great photo. I finally found Tony Smith's post. From looking at the SIX maps and sliding back and forth between the current and 1943 maps, even allowing for a slight misalignm

It seems that you and others are still posting to the Yahoo groups email address, and I can't see "Tony's observations" at the Groups.io web site. Anyway, does anyone have a track map for the Redbank

Attached is another small photo of SFL 2 with an open platform trailer at the Parramatta Park Gatehouse circa 1890. The photo has come via a NSW State archive, but I am uncertain exactly what the exac

The NSW group are running another great looking tour, this time to Woolwich Dock (Morts Dock & Engineering Co) at Woolwich, Saturday 23 November. Meet at Circular Quay Wharf No. 5 at 10:30am for the 1

A field outing to visit the Cabarlah and Hampton tramways has been planned for November 16 2019. The Munro Tramway Historical Group has been doing a lot of field work locating Munro’s tramway formatio

Pre-publication orders for the second edition of the book "Rails to Rubicon" by Peter Evans, are now being taken. The pre-publication price is $39.60 ($29.70 to LRRSA members). This special price will

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Hello all, This message is from LRRSA@groups.io the group which was set up about 18 months ago to replace LRRSA@... Some members of the old yahoogroup are claiming this group does not exist! Well it d

Please see attached flier for what will no doubt be another interesting day tour for anyone in the Sydney area, conducted by this year's John Monash Medal winner, Dave Jeehan. Phil Rickard

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,

This message is in response to queries about the differences between the first (1994) and second (2019) edition of this book. If you have a first edition then the decision to invest in the second edit

The mailout team did their usual sterling job on Thursday, but the public holiday on Friday meant the magazine couldn't be posted. It was handed over to Australia Post today, and should be hitting you

G'day all ABC Country Hour recently interviewed an ex-driver of HOMEBUSH (Hudswell Clarke) at Ingham. https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/qld-country-hour/homebush-steam-engine/11387910 -- Lynn Zelm

Please see attached flier for what will no doubt be an interesting day tour for anyone in the Sydney area. Phil Rickard

Over the weekend the Guardian website ran 2 articles relating to the tram network in Sydney, the first describing the decision to close the network, the second with a series of images of the trams in

The peelers, plonkers and stuffers did a fabulous job last night, and Light Railways 268 (August 2019) has now been handed over to Australia Post. This is another very interesting issue, featuring par

Dear all, Between the 21st and 23rd June the Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railway and the Welsh Highland Heritage Railway in Porthmadog held a gala event called Past, Present and Future. Star of the sh

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