TRIUMPH OF THE NARROW GAUGE - A HISTORY OF QUEENSLAND RAILWAYS

HARDBACK "RARELY AVAILABLE," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: Revised 2nd. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1998* Publisher: Boolarong Press.* Binding and cover condition: Grey cloth, white title to spine and face. No bumps, very slight rubs, no other visible faults. VG++* Jacket condition: Colour photo-illustrated dust wrapper showing a colour photograph of old locomotives at Townsville loco depot. NOT PRICE CLIPPED but showing no shelf price. Minimal shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, slight marks, otherwise no visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: Several colour & numerous b/w photos, prints and line drawings throughout.* Pages: 239 pp. text. ix pp. List of opening dates, select bibliography & index at rear.* Description: Steam trains have held an irresistible fascination for generations of both old and young. The sight, sounds and smell of steam have created a lifelong interest in rail technology that has not disappeared with the emergence of diesel and electric trains. The early European settlers of Queensland faced enormous problems in developing pastoral, mining and agricultural industries in a sparsely-settled country of huge distances. When conventional railways proved beyonf]d their mens , they adopted narrow gauge as as the means of building cheap, lightly-constructed railways in rugged terrain. Queensland?s narrow gauge was copied in many countries, including Japan and most of Africa. This book recognises both the successes and the shortcomings of the system. More than that, it provides many insights into what the early railways were like, and brings them to life with a series of historic photographs illustrating every chapter.* A NEAR FINE copy of the 2nd/1st. with only minor faults reducing it to VG++*