A History of the South Australian Railways
A History of the South Australian Railways

Author: Ronald Stewien

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9781876568627

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William 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.

Locomotives of Australia
Locomotives of Australia

Author: Leon Oberg

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781877058547

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Provides 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.

Bob the Railway Dog
Bob the Railway Dog

Author: Corinne Fenton

Publisher: Candlewick Press

Published: 2016-11-08

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 0763680974

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Bob the Railway Dog was everyone's friend in the early days of the Australian railroad. Based on a real dog who rode the rails in the late nineteenth century.

600
600

Author: Douglas A. Colquhoun

Publisher:

Published: 1971

Total Pages: 53

ISBN-13: 9780909970062

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Heading South
Heading South

Author: Tim Richards

Publisher: Fremantle Press

Published: 2021-07-20

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1760990027

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Freelance travel writer and Lonely Planet guidebook contributor Tim Richards decides to shake up his life by taking an epic rail journey across Australia. Jumping aboard iconic trains like the Indian Pacific, Overland, and Spirit of Queensland, he covers over 7,000 kilometres, from the tropics to the desert and from big cities to ghost towns. Tim's journey is one of classic travel highs and lows: floods, cancellations, extraordinary landscapes, and forays into personal and public histories—as well as the steady joy of random strangers encountered along the way.