Light Railways No.227 October 2012 PDF

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Light Railways No.227 October 2012

• The Langley Vale tramway – Part 2 1912-1933 (New South Wales)
• The last trains to Beech Forest (Victoria)
• Industrial Railway News (20 items from around Australia, Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Irian Jaya)
• Book Reviews:
  • Riches beneath the Flat;
  • The Narrow Gauge
• Letters: Ballaarat (LR224); Steam locomotives on Victorian Timber Tramways (LR210); 3rd Australian Light Railway Operating Company (LR226), Stannary Hills & Tramways Co; Langley Vale Tramway (LR226); Wooden rails and pipe dreams (LR223); Wrights Folly (LR225); Light Railway at the Acropolis, Athens, Greece; The New Improved Meyer (LR225); The Lake George Mine at Captains Flat
• Research: Brickworks tramways; Ultra-narrow gauge in Australia; Bolla Bollana Copper Mines, SA;
• Field Reports: Gunn’s Shady Creek Tramway, Red Hill and Big Cuttings, Crossover, VIC; Longworths Timber Tramway, Kendall, NSW (LR112, 131133,203,218); The Simsville Timber Tramway, Stroud, NSW; Victoria Coal Company, Cape Paterson (LR197); Ocean Salt Co Ltd, Port Augusta, SA (LR115); Erith Colliery, Bundanoon, NSW (LR130)
• Heritage & Tourist Railway News (13 news items and Coming Events)