Light Railways No.243 June 2015

Light Railways No. 243 June 2015:

• Thin lines of transport – the short life of the monorailway in early twentieth-century South Australia
• Resuscitating the Count – Coal Creek (Vic)
• Looking back – Tramming Piles to Norfolk Bay (Tas) for Admiralty Harbour Works, Dover, England
• Bruce Macdonald OAM
• Industrial Railway News (10 items from around Australia)
• Letters: Ilarwill Quarry (NSW: LRN35; LR236 & 242); Financing Local Authority tramways in Queensland (LR 241)
• Field Reports: ‘Derril’ sawmill, Mt Disappointment State Forest (Vic); Harwood Sugar Mill (NSW); Torrumbarry Gallivant 2014, including Waranga Basin and Mangalore Gravel Pits (Gravelside) (Vic)
• Tour Report: South Australian Group visit to Milang and Clayton, Saturday 14 March 2015
• Book Reviews: Anatomy of a NARROW-GAUGE BALDWIN The many lives of the “Tramway da Cantareira” #2 steam locomotive (Peter Manning and Nicholas Burman); WDLR ALBUM (compiled by Roy C Link)
• Research: First diesel locomotives built in Australia; A guide to downloading maps (QLD); Copyright – What is Copyright in Australia?; Fairfax Media archive nightmare; Australian Forest History Society Inc.; Google Earth Pro; The Bush Mill, Cuba Park Railway, Penny Royal World (Tas)
• Heritage & Tourist Railway News (11 news items from Australia and New Zealand)