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Hi Merle, that was what I had picked up. I guess the legislation in Australia was different to the UK?

Ex-Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway (L&YR) 0-8-0 Locomotive in LMS Days at Liverpool, Bank Hall Locomotive Shed – 1937 The featured image for this short article is a relatively poor/grainy photograph taken on Sunday 25th July 1937 at Liverpool Bank Hall Engine Shed. Prominent in the photograph...

I think that the Southern Heights Light Railway (SHLR) was authorised in 1928 (unless I have the date wrong) under the Light Railways Act 1896, but ultimately not constructed. If so, the Act had been in place for 32 years by the time that the SHLR was authorised. No doubt its existence was a...

It does. Which seems surprising given the significant use of road vehicles later in WW1 and the number of vehicle available second hand after that war.

The Thinking About Light Railways before 1896 (and the 1896 Act of Parliament in the UK). The featured image for this article shows a brand new standard-gauge locomotive – 0-6-4T Mersey Railway No. 1 ‘The Major’. It had not yet received its nameplates when it posed in ‘works grey’ at the Beyer...

The featured image for this article shows ‘Argyll’ (a Barclay built 0-6-2T) taking its train Southeast out of Campbeltown before turning Southwest to run round the South side of the town. This image was shared on the Machrihanish Online Facebook Page on 26th July 2023. (c) Public Domain. [22]...

Part 6 - Over Land & Sea: Magical Views and Sea-Hugging Routes on Europe’s Best Coastal Train Lines – Part B – Spain and Italy The featured image for this article comes from the FEVE lines of Northern Spain. It shows a typical DMU in use on the FEVE network, together with a number of single-car...

Friends of The West Highland Lines Journal – ‘West Highland News Plus’ The featured image for this article shows the Jacobite arriving at Mallaig Railway Station, © Mary & Angus Hogg and licensed for reuse under a Creative Commons licence (CC BY-SA 2.0). [18] In the bookshop at Wemyss Bay...

Corrour Railway Station The featured image for this article is from a video of steam at work on Rannoch Moor not far from Corrour. http://rogerfarnworth.com/2026/06/26/corrour-railway-station/

The Edaville Railroad, South Carver, Massachusetts, again. … The featured image for this article is Monson Railroad No. 4 on an Edaville Railroad works train in 1950, © Public Domain. [2: p93] In January 2026, I was reading an early copy of The Railway Magazine and wrote an article about the...

Perhaps even more so given that the first locospotter book was for the Southern.

It must have been.

Yes, quite a distance North - close enough to the island of Gigha.

Ronachan Point, Kintyre – Limestone Tramway http://rogerfarnworth.com/2026/05/17/ronachan-point-kintyre-limestone-tramway/

Lilleshall Abbey and Woodland Railway I saw the featured image in a photo book compiled by Alton Douglas for Beacon Radio in 1987, ‘Memories of the Wrekin and Beyond’. It shows Lilleshall Estate’s 2ft-gauge railway in action in 1933. [1: p47]...

Thank you for the response Bevan. The booklet was a delight!

Locomotives of the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway (LB&SCR) – 1920. I have just been given a small pamphlet style paperback book compiled and published in June 1920 by W.G. Tilling. The featured image for this article comes from the frontispiece of Tilling’s book. It is a picture of the...

Railways of Tanzania – Part 7 – The Central Line – An Introductory History and the Length of Line from Dar-es-Salaam to Mikese The featured image for this article is a photograph of East African Railways (EAR) Class 30 steam locomotive No. 3019 ‘Nyamwezi’ at Tabora depot on the Central Line...

The Railways of West Cumberland – Part 2 The featured image for this article is a photograph taken by Walter Dendy of a football excursion returning from Egremont to Carlisle passing through Distington Railway Station behind ex-LMS Class ‘4F’ Locomotive No. 44461 in 1951. The line to the left...

Part 2 – Nice to Tende The travel section of the Saturday Guardian Magazine on 23rd May 2023 included a few pages about train journeys in Europe (pages 72 to 77). This is the second part of a look at those pages. … The featured image for this article is the Train des Merveilles (Train of...