Light Railways No.279 June 2021

Light Railways No. 279 June 2021:

This 48 page edition has the following contents:

• LEFT BEHIND 2ft 6in trucks and the 1953 ‘Puffing Billy’ landslide (Vic)
• The Magnet Tramway (Tas)
• The private sugar tramways of Stotts Creek (NSW)
• Looking Back – Construction tramways at Upper Nepean dams (NSW)
• Industrial Railway News – 18 items from Australia and Fiji
• Letters – Garratt locomotive at Colac, Victoria – 1935 (LR272); Ringwood Colliery (NSW) (LR 130 & 155); The Eskbank Iron Company’s first passenger train!; LRRSA turns 60 (LR 277); Caldwell-Vale and Purcell Engineering industrial locomotives – an overview (LR 278); Michaelis, Hallenstein & Coy, Footscray (Vic) (LR278); Early locomotives at North Eton and Plane Creek sugar mills (LR 278); Export and/or restoration of locomotives – letter (LR 278)
• Field Reports – Weerite Ballast Siding, Weerite (Vic); Wentworth Falls, Katoomba (NSW)
• Heritage & Tourist News – 16 items from across Australia
• Back cover photos: State Electricity Commission of Victoria, Yallourn

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