Light Railways No.240 December 2014 PDF

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Light Railways No. 240 December 2014:

This is a special 48 page issue, with much of interest:

• The British Australian Timber Company Limited (Part 2 – Woolgoolga – NSW)
• Looking Back – Don Tramway, Northern Tasmania; Log Hauler, Southport mill (Tas)
• Homebush centenary (QLD)
• In the shadow of the Prom (Vic)
• The Lethbridge Quarry (Vic)
• The 2014 Crush (QLD – Photo feature)
• Lake Butler slipway and portage railway at Robe (SA)
• Industrial Railway News (21 items from around Australia, Fiji and Nauru)
• Field Reports: Gold Mines, Bendigo (Vic)
• Letters: Hudson Brothers timber tramway (LR155); New light on the construction of the Narani sawmill (LR155); Transport & Industrial Index locomotives (LR239); Beachport Jetty tramway, Beachport SA (LR236,238); Tulloch 4wDM (003 of 1959)
• Book Reviews: The McIvor Timber & Firewood Company, Tooborac, Victoria;┬ The Chert Bubble – 1920s chert ventures at Mount Victoria. Volume 1, The company; ┬ Railways of Tasmania’s Wild West; Salute to the Hudswells
• Research: Manning River breakwater visited; Sch├Áma tunnel locomotives; Customs records; Shipyard Stories – Cockatoo Island (NSW); Amusement Railways of NSW; Vaughan Springs miniature railway (Vic)
• Heritage & Tourist Railway News (16 news items)