The Last Days of Steam on Australia's Railways
Author: Robert Wheatley
Publisher: Angus & Robertson
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 90
ISBN-13: 9780207121340
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Author: Robert Wheatley
Publisher: Angus & Robertson
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 90
ISBN-13: 9780207121340
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: Mark Musgrave Hardacre
Publisher:
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9780727003553
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Woodhams
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2024-08-15
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 1398110221
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRare and previously unpublished images illustrate the story of the last commercial steam working in Australia, which was active until 1987.
Author: Malcolm Holdsworth
Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780957732483
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mark Hardacre
Publisher:
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 104
ISBN-13: 9789130008766
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert Wheatley
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9780980687835
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe second volume of the popular Railway Portraits includes evocative photographs of the people and locomotives in NSW in the 1960's, and captures the moods, beauty and essence of the steam locomotive.
Author: David Burke
Publisher: Rosenberg Publishing
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781925078398
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn entertaining look at railway events in Australia in the month of September - from 1848, when a meeting was called to start a railway company in New South Wales, to 2013, when the great Bayer-Garrett AD6029 steam engine was restored to working order. For some strange reason, September has been a month when particularly memorable railway events tend to occur. Author David Burke has crafted a 'diary' which documents, day by day, major happenings to do with railways in Australia - from the days of steam, to diesel, to diesel-electric and electrification, covering the first trains that ran between New South Wales and Queensland, and to Melbourne. It was in also September that the first sod was dug for the Trans-Australian Railway across the Nullarbor to Perth. The book is heavily illustrated with historic photographs, both black and white and colour, newspaper cuttings, sketches and maps, and features 13 paintings by renowned railway artist Phil Belbin. Names that leap to the fore among those who made railway history happen include Ben Chifley, the locomotive driver who became Prime Minister of Australia, engineer Dr John Bradfield, designer of the Sydney Harbour Bridge and responsible for putting Sydney's city trains underground, James Fraser, first Australian-born Chief Commissioner for Railways, and Harold Young, the Scotsman who designed the C38 engine and the Silver City Comet. Cover picture shows: Climbing the steep Fassifern Grade with a heavy coal train maakes for plenty of Bayer-Garrett action in Phil Belbin's painting of the AD60 class at work on the Shorty North line to Newcastle New South Wales Australia.
Author: Douglas A. Colquhoun
Publisher:
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 53
ISBN-13: 9780909970000
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Burke
Publisher:
Published: 2004-10-01
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9780253345271
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Edward Loughry was only twenty-four when the Baldwin Locomotive Works sent their young engineer across half the world to bring a cargo of four little steam engines and six double deck carriages to Sydney. He sailed aboard SS Dryad from New York harbour on 15 May 1879 and reached Sydney on September 3.... The 'Americanisation' of Sydney, according to some observers, dated from Loughry's arrival with the Baldwin trains." —from American Steam on Australian Rails Railways, according to the history books, were a British invention, and as a result, English companies were quick to capture a huge part of the world market. So how did American steam locomotives come to play a major role in rail transportation in 19th-century Australia, then a British colony? In American Steam on Australian Rails, David Burke tells the fascinating story of Yankee ingenuity and the companies that challenged an English monopoly. While purchasers of equipment for Australian lines argued about the virtues and failings of the American machine, most had to admit that the engines made for the Wild West worked equally well riding the curves, grades, and light rails of outback Queensland, Victoria, and New South Wales. Burke provides copious descriptions of the locomotives themselves, from early models with ornate domes, long cowcatchers, and wooden cabs, right through to the trim 59 class 2-8-2 imported from Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton by New South Wales in the twilight of steam. Lavishly illustrated with color and black-and-white photos and illustrations, American Steam on Australian Rails documents the progress of hundreds of Yankee engines across the vastness of a new continent as they became part of a grand Australian railroad adventure. Published in association with Australian Railway Historical Society.