Light Railways No.225 June 2012 PDF

Now available as a FREE download – click

• The new improved Meyer – a sorry saga (Tasmania)
• Wright’s Folly – The Falls Creek granite quarry and its tramway (Victoria)
• Sandstone Galah, March-April (South Africa)
• Petrie and Eudlo Flats (Queensland)
• Industrial Railway News (9 items from around Australia, and Fiji)
• Book Review: Sawdust and Steam – a history of sawmilling in the east Otway Ranges 1850-2010
• Letters: Strahan jetty tramway (LR223); Cane railway bridge, Maroochy River; The past becomes the present: wooden rails and pipeline dreams (LR213); Great Cobar locomotives (LR224); Ballaarat (LR224)
• Research: Fifth International Early Railway Conference, Caernafon, Wales; SMR line to Stanford Merthyr, NSW; Railway Cranes in Australia; Thomas Parker locomotives; Crotty expedition, Tasmania.
• Heritage & Tourist Railway News (15 news items and Coming Events)