Light Railways No.226 August 2012

Light Railways No.226 August 2012

• The Langley Vale tramway – Part 1 1897-1912 (New South Wales)
• Steel rails and lead chromate (Dundas, near Zeehan, Tasmania)
• Industrial Railway News (13 items from around Australia, Fiji and Nauru)
• Book Reviews:
  • Built by Bundaberg Foundry;
  • Global industry, local innovation: the history of cane sugar production in Australia 1820-1995
• Letters: The new improved Meyer (LR226); Strahan jetty tramway (LR223 & 225); World War I light railways; Petrie and Eudlo Flats (LR225), SMR Stanford Merthyr line (LR225); Great Cobar locomotives (LR225)
• Research: Scope of Light Railways research; Kirchubel’s Tramway (LR116); Ada River Historic Area – field report
• Heritage & Tourist Railway News (18 news items and Coming Events)