Light Railways No.206 April 2009 PDF

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• The Australian light railways of the Gallipoli campaign (Turkey)
• Childers number 4: A brief history of Fowler 16830, Part 2 (New South Wales)
• Western Australian pioneer logging locomotives
• Industrial Railway News (16 items from around Australia, and Fiji)
• Book Reviews: A guide to Australian locomotion 2009 edition; Bagnalls of Stafford: Builders of Locomotives for the Worlds’s Railwaysd; The Early Years of the Motor Rail & Tram Car Company 1911-1931
• Letters – Little Yarra (LR200); Deutz locomotives at Queenstown (LR201, 202 & 205); Dravo Australia (LRN 26)
• Obituary – Dorothy Macdonald
• Research: Kinglake and Flowerdale, Vic.; Wyett’s Beaconsfield Tramway, Tas.
• Heritage & Tourist Railway News (15 news items and Coming Events)

A very interesting mix of articles in this issue. The second article includes much background information on the Condong sugar mill’s tramways in northern New South Wales.

The Heritage & Tourist section includes a review of the effects of recent bushfires on Victorian preserved light railways.