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Author : John Woodhams
Release : 2024-08-15
Genre : Transportation
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Book Rating : 221/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Australia's Last Steam Railways by : John Woodhams
Download or read book Australia's Last Steam Railways written by John Woodhams. This book was released on 2024-08-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rare and previously unpublished images illustrate the story of the last commercial steam working in Australia, which was active until 1987.
Author : Tim Fischer
Release : 2018-11-01
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 292/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Steam Australia by : Tim Fischer
Download or read book Steam Australia written by Tim Fischer. This book was released on 2018-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In '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
Release : 1977
Genre : Locomotives
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Book Rating : 553/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Chasing Australia's Last Steam Trains by : Mark Musgrave Hardacre
Download or read book Chasing Australia's Last Steam Trains written by Mark Musgrave Hardacre. This book was released on 1977. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Hardacre
Release : 1977
Genre : Locomotives
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Book Rating : 766/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Chasing Australia's Last Steam Trains by : Mark Hardacre
Download or read book Chasing Australia's Last Steam Trains written by Mark Hardacre. This book was released on 1977. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Burke
Release : 2004-10-01
Genre : Technology & Engineering
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Book Rating : 271/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis American Steam On Australian Rails by : David Burke
Download or read book American Steam On Australian Rails written by David Burke. This book was released on 2004-10-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.
