Steam Australia
Tim Fischer
In ‘Steam Australia’, Tim Fischer takes readers into the fascinating story of steam transportation over ten vital decades of transformation in Australia’s history.
The book also covers the great named express trains hauled by steam locomotives over the decades, such as ‘Puffing Billy’, Robert Gordon Menzies or ‘The Ghan’. Special topics feature things such as Albury’s ‘break of gauge’ platform (where two state track systems met), the Amiens branch line (running through Pozieres and Passchendaele stations in Queensland), some important characters such as C.Y. O’Connor and many more.
The book is illustrated with over 300 exciting images from the superb National Library John Buckland collection of photography, many never seen before.
Steam locomotives continue to operate as a key part of rail heritage tourism in Australia, demonstrating the ongoing legacy of these engines. The great age of steam in Australia and Fischer’s salute to steam locomotion and all that it has achieved for this country is fascinating and captivating to both train novices and enthusiasts alike.
In this comprehensive volume on the ‘Locomotives that Galvanised a Nation’, Tim Fischer has lovingly shared his knowledge in a body of work that pays tribute to a bygone age
Illustrated with historic photographs, mostly in black and white, and written in a captivating style, this book will have coffee table pride of place in my home.
- Release
- Nov-2018
- ISBN
- 9780642279293
- RRP (AUD)
- $39.99
- Format
- Paperback & ebook
- Category
- Locomotives
Tim Fischer
Although Tim Fischer was never a trainspotter in the classic British sense, for over seven decades he has been totally committed to understanding and promoting rail transport and examining the essential role both passenger trains and rail freight have played in our economy.
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