Title: RAILWAYS OF AUSTRALIA
Publisher i Angus and Robertson, 1964.
Author Name: C.C. Singleton, and D. Burke.
Binding: Hard Cover
Pages 160 pages
Number of photos: well illustrated
Book Condition: USED Dust jacket has tears otherwise good condition
Dimensions 24 x 17 cm
ISBN NO ISBN
Dewey Number 385.0994
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Railways oi Australia
THE AUSTRALIAN RAILWAY SCENE is changing fast. We are seeing the transition
from steam locomotives to diesels and electrics, the arrival of modern
air-conditioned expresses, the gauge standardization of key routes. New
lines are being built and old lines rebuilt to carry fabulous mineral wealth.
Latest techniques have been mastered to handle traffic and attract business,
freight trains move at 60 m.p.h., and the push-button era is promised
with Centralized Traffic Control.
Railways of Australia tells about these spectacular developments,
and takes us behind the scenes to show how a railway works.
The Australian railways are a vast enterprise. Twenty-four hours a
day, seven days a week, they handle a staggering volume of passengers and
freight.
Their story is told, in text and pictures, against a romantic back
ground-the battle of the broken gauges, the classic beauty of some of the
greatest steam power, the enormous capacity of the all-conquering diesel,
the glamour of the titled trains, and the nostalgic appeal of the lesser
known private lines.
Railways of Australia will delight everyone who likes trains-from
the keenest enthusiast to those who just like hearing a whistle call on
a frosty night. _
The Authors
C. C. SINGLETON, one of Australia’s best known railway enthusiasts,
spent his working life on the New South Wales Railways. He began as an
engineer draftsman in 1910, at
the age of 22.
President of the Australian Railway Historical Society for its first
twenty years, C. C. Singleton is now the Society’s Honorary Research Oflicer.
He supplied information on railways and tramways for the Australian Encyclopaedia
and edited the book A Century of Locomotives published by the N.S.W. Railways.
He is known to railwaymen as “Sing”.
DAVID BURKE, a Sydney journalist, is a member of theAustralian
Railway Historical Society. He once worked on the steam and electric locomotives
of the Victorian Rail
ways, and is the writer of many newspaper articles about trains.
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