Transport

Published to commemorate the centenary of the inauguration of electric tramway services in Hobart on 21 September 1893 — making Hobart's the first successful electric tramway network in the Southern Hemisphere.

Memories of Tasmania's West Coast is a pictorial journey through the construction of the West Coast road, the Great Lake road to Bronte, the Tarraleah road, and the Queenstown to Zeehan road, now all highways.

Les Morley's pictorial history of trams and trolley buses in Tasmania — covering the systems that operated in Hobart, Launceston and other Tasmanian centres from the late 19th century through to the end of electric tram and trolleybus operation. Tasmania had a more extensive tram network than many Australians realise — Hobart's tramway system operated from 1893 to 1960, Launceston had its own network, and trolleybuses continued in Hobart into the 1960s.

William A. Bayley's history of the Port Arthur railway — Australia's first railway, built across the Tasman Peninsula using convict labour in the 1830s. What made it remarkable — and what visitors to the Tasman Peninsula still find hard to believe — is that it was not steam powered. Convicts pushed the carriages along the track by hand, running behind and pushing, or sitting in seats at the rear and using their feet against the ground.