A three-books-in-one omnibus edition of Patsy Adam-Smith's memoirs — Hear the Train Blow, Goodbye Girlie, and There Was a Ship — complete and unabridged in a single volume.
A three-books-in-one omnibus edition of Patsy Adam-Smith's memoirs — Hear the Train Blow, Goodbye Girlie, and There Was a Ship — complete and unabridged in a single volume.
A comprehensive and well illustrated history of Tasmanian railways.
Nick Anchen's photographic history of the railways of Tasmania's west coast — the extraordinary network of lines that served the mining towns of Queenstown, Rosebery, Zeehan and Strahan, and the remarkable engineering required to build and operate them through some of the most rugged and remote country in Australia.
A Tasmanian motorsport book on Targa Tasmania, the famous tarmac rally event run on closed roads across the state covering the history of the first 10 years of the Tasmanian Targa tarmac rally, 1992-2001.
The second volume in Les Morley's series documenting Tasmanian road transport through rare historical photographs — covering the 1930s. Morley draws on a personal collection of photographs documenting trucks, buses, cars and road infrastructure from the period, presenting a pictorial record of how Tasmania moved through one of its most economically challenging decades.
Tasmania's Bygone Years of Road Transport 1940 - 1950 is the third in a series of books on the history of motoring in Tasmania.
This the fourth volume of Les Morley's history of Tasmania's road transport traces the enormous changes that occurred post war between 1950 and 1965.
Nick Anchen's photographic and oral history of Tasmanian railways across the second half of the 20th century — combining the memories of the men and women who worked the TGR (Tasmanian Government Railways) and its successors with the work of some of Australia's leading railway photographers.
Lou Rae's history of the Abt Railway — the rack-and-pinion railway that ran between Queenstown and Strahan on Tasmania's west coast, one of the most spectacular and technically remarkable railways ever built in Australia. The Abt system uses a toothed rack rail in the centre of the track, engaged by a pinion gear on the locomotive, allowing trains to climb and descend grades that would be impossible for conventional adhesion railways.
The history of the train line on Hobart's eastern shore in Tasmania.
The Launceston and Western Railway Company was formed in 1867 to build Tasmania's first railway line, connecting Launceston to Deloraine to carry agricultural produce from the rich farmland around Perth and Longford to port for export. The 45-mile broad-gauge line opened in 1871 — but the company was almost immediately in financial trouble, and the government stepped in to take over its operations in 1873, though the formal purchase of its assets wasn't completed until 1904.