Australian Railway History Magazine August 2024 Back Issue

🚂THE AUGUST ARH ISSUE OUT NOW🚂
Ararat was the busiest railway yard and junction outside of Melbourne and late December 1969, Lindsay Morrison was a Victorian Railways Trainee Engineman. With the wheat season underway, this was a busy time each year on the VR as many special additional trains were run to transfer grain. Additional train crews were required and consequently Lindsay was to be temporarily transferred to Ararat to help run these extra trains. It was an interesting time with the demise of steam in sight and the coming of more and more diesels to the region. We extend our coverage of 20 years since the closure of the Murwillumbah Line with Part 2 of A Lament for the Murwillumbah Railway, 20 years on by Peter Cokley. But we also offer a complementing article by Col Gilbertson with his Rail Travel to the Gold Coast. Col discusses and places context to the changes in rolling stock and the passenger trains that ran in the late 20th century along the North Coast Line leading up to the closure. The Murwillumbah Railway was not immune to the effects of the national economy but it held in there as a result of state electoral math but in the end with changes in government it sadly couldn’t last forever.
All this and more in our AUGUST issue!