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Author: Leon Oberg
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Published: 2007
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781877058547
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides a potted examination of the multiplicity of steam, diesel and electric locomotives that have graced Australia from 1854. This book examines the massive technological changes that have swept onto the Australian locomotive scene. It contains references and or direct entries to numerous locomotive types, research and much more.
Author: Ronald Stewien
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Published: 2010
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9781876568627
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWilliam Alfred Webb landed in South Australia in 1922. His assignment: to rehabilitate the ailing State-owned railway system. In next to no time he found one very obvious weakness; an inadequate, run down and completely inefficient locomotive fleet. Taking the bull by the horns he right away appointed Fred Shea from Victoria as his Chief Mechanical Engineer, setting Fred on the road to becoming one of Australia's great engineers. The outcome: forty-five steam locomotives and three steam wrecking cranes that set standards of excellence that lasted until the South Australian Railways as a corporate body was finally dissolved on 8 December 1975. Not only did Shea excel as a steam locomotive engineer but during the Second World War (and after) he stood out as a giant in the construction of warplanes, munitions and in due course, diesel-electric locomotives.
Author: David Mather
Publisher: Pen and Sword Transport
Published: 2020-09-30
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 1526770202
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first steam locomotives used on any British railway, worked in industry. The use of new and second hand former main line locomotives, was once a widespread aspect of the railways of Britain. This volume covers many of the once numerous manufacturers who constructed steam locomotives for industry and contractors from the 19th to the mid 20th centuries. David Mather has spent many years researching and collecting photographs across Britain, of most of the different locomotive types that once worked in industry. This book is designed to be both a record of these various manufacturers and a useful guide to those researching and modelling industrial steam.
Author: Ronald E. Fluck
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Published: 1986
Total Pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9780959507331
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Peter Ormsby
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Published: 2023
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book follows the development and history of all the steam locomotives ever operated and owned by the South Australian Railways from 1856 to 1953. Each locomotive is presented numerically by date if acquisition and is accompanied by the relevant technical and historical information. --Back cover.
Author: Malcolm Holdsworth
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Published: 2011
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9780957732476
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Published: 1964
Total Pages: 60
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: South Australia Railway Department
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Published: 1908
Total Pages: 102
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Tim Fischer
Publisher: National Library of Australia
Published: 2018-11-01
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 0642279292
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 'Steam Australia', Tim Fischer takes readers into the fascinating story of steam transportation over ten vital decades of transformation in Australia's history. The book also covers the great named express trains hauled by steam locomotives over the decades, such as 'Puffing Billy', Robert Gordon Menzies or 'The Ghan'. Special topics feature things such as Albury's 'break of gauge' platform (where two state track systems met), the Amiens branch line (running through Pozieres and Passchendaele stations in Queensland), some important characters such as C.Y. O'Connor and many more. The book is illustrated with over 300 exciting images from the superb National Library John Buckland collection of photography, many never seen before. Steam locomotives continue to operate as a key part of rail heritage tourism in Australia, demonstrating the ongoing legacy of these engines. The great age of steam in Australia and Fischer's salute to steam locomotion and all that it has achieved for this country is fascinating and captivating to both train novices and enthusiasts alike.
Author: David Hunt
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2010-12
Total Pages: 145
ISBN-13: 1446732630
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSteam supreme. There are lots of railwaymen, who have departed from this world, and many are still alive, however very few have written about their experiences as employees while working for the Western Australian Government Railways. These incidents laughable or sad would be lost forever, which is the reason I am writing this book, (The Era of Steam Engines). The age of steam running supreme has vanished but the memories live on in the minds of men and women who worked in this steam-era. I will try to give a full account in this book of what it was like to be one of those people; working diligently in this era, making many permanent friends for life and how I enjoyed working steam and diesel locomotives.
