Description
Title: Steam Australia: Locomotives that Galvanised the Nation
Author: FISCHER TIM
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/11/2018
Imprint: NATIONAL LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIA
Price: $40.00
Publishing status: Active
Former Deputy Prime Minister turned
successful author, Tim Fischer, has a soft
spot for the steam locomotive. Drawing on
the National Library of Australias extensive
John Buckland collection of photographs
(many included here), he brings the halcyon
days of steam evocatively to life in this
erudite and affectionate celebration. The
book covers the history of steam trains
in Australia from the arrival of the first
locomotives in 1854. Fischer describes how
gold, coal and wheat contributed to the rapid
expansion of rail networks in each state,
transforming the country but resulting in
the unwieldy development of 22 different
gauges across the nation.
ISBN: 9780642279293
Dimension: 265mm X 216mm
Pages: 264
Edition: 01