Australian Railway History Magazine March 2016 Zurück Ausgabe

The March issue of Australian Railway History offers a diverse range of articles, commencing with Mike Quirk’s account of an unusual accident in Queensland, the collision between a QR tram-train and a city council steam tram in Rockhampton on 8 January 1919. Part 1 of Phil Buckley’s presentation of John King’s railway career follows. This covers John’s early postings in the Sydney metropolitan area and then his transfer to the rural centre of Gundagai on the branch line from Cootamundra to Tumut and Batlow.
A short account of the Jim Stokes Flowerdale Ballast Siding in northern Tasmania is followed by an Explorer item by Ken Kershaw and Bill Phippen analysing the styles of the pedestrian bridges at stations on the Main West Line in the Blue Mountains.