Australian Railway History Magazine May 2023 Retour à l'édition précédente

100 years ago a terrible railway crash at Springwood sent shockwaves through the Blue Mountains. Fortunately, the crew only received minor injuries, but the train was reported to have covered the ten miles (16 km) between Lawson and Springwood in less than eight minutes, which would have been an average speed of about 120 km/h. Not the kind of speeds that a steam operated goods train should have been operating on that section of track.
We are just too excited to get started on the coverage of the 140th anniversary of the completion of the Great Southern Railway from Goulburn to the River Murray in the June 2023 issue. SO we have decided to start with one of the forgotten stations along the way at Jindalee, it was typical of the railway stations that once served lightly populated districts prior to widespread motor car ownership and the establishment of an all-weather road network.
We head north then to the Yeerongpilly standard gauge locomotive depot, the only depot constructed by QR for the use of 1435 mm standard gauge locomotives.
All this and more in our May issue!