Light Railways No.223 February 2012 PDF

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• The Silent Grove tramway (Racecourse Mill, Queensland)
• Saving the horses: Adventures with battery locomotives (New South Wales)
• A peculiar incident at Bulli Colliery (New South Wales)
• The past becomes the present: wooden rails and pipe dreams (Lake Margaret, Tasmania)
• Industrial Railway News (9 items from around Australia, Fiji and Indonesia)
• DVD Review: The 2011 Sandstone Steam Gala
• Letters: Questions of Identity – The Southport-Burleigh road construction tramway (LF213) – Tully Mill Fowlers; Locomotive INNISFAIL (LR222): The locomotive ‘Tom Thumb’ (LR 158)
• Research: Export of Heritage Locomotives from Australia; Red Head (Glenrock) Railway (Newcastle, NSW); Maroochy Shire Council Tramways: Mapleton and Buderim (Qld); Pioneer Australian Light Railways; Railway Cranes in Australia; Assistance with Photos (Strahan, Tas; Erica Vic)
• Heritage & Tourist Railway News (20 News items and Coming Events)