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Welcome to a further newsletter covering some new arrivals and books, expected publications and featuring details of several shows, which are being presented in the next few weeks.
PUBLICATIONS
Train Hobby has released Commonwealth Railways in the usual landscape format, featuring all colour shots of steam and diesel locomotives from the 1950s and 1960s. While most of the steam locos are shown in a stored condition, there are plenty of detail images allowing the modeller and enthusiast to get a better idea of what these locos looked like. In addition, the diesel photos cover both narrow gauge locos as well as standard gauge locos that the Commonwealth operated in their somewhat hostile desert environment. At $38 this is a worthwhile publication for those interested in the operations and trains of this seldom photographed railway.
Narrow Gauge Downunder 38 has been published. This article features several “how to” articles on tree making, bridge building, and kit-bashing some of the ready to run locos now available. There is also an article on third generation cane diesels and numerous other articles of interest to most. Our price is $12.
ARHS NSW has released Australian Railway Heritage Guide 2010.This is the latest edition and comes in a handy A5 size of some 320 pages. It features heritage and tour operations, sites and museums and covers the whole of Australia. Locations are listed, with maps and web references. Our price is $34.
LRRSA has released several books in the last few months, which we have not previously listed. The first is Shays, Crabs and Phosphate, which covers the operations of both the standard and narrow gauge railways on Christmas Island. This island is an Australian territory some 2000 kms north west of Australia. It had a number of locos, both steam and internal combustion, and had passenger operations with rail cars. These are all included, together with a history of the island and its people. It is well illustrated and shows the difficulty of operation at an isolated location. Our price is $32.
The next book is entitled Elrington. This was a BHP operated colliery near Newcastle. It was designed to use modern methods and had its own underground narrow gauge operation as well as a standard gauge branch line operating from the South Maitland railways at Weston. It is very well illustrated and recommended for a different view of coal mining operations. Our price is $25.50.
The most recent book is Tall Timbers and Tramlines of Queensland, which was written by the late John Kerr, a very well respected historian with a vast knowledge and understanding of railways. The book features many previously unpublished photos, as well as maps, of all the known timber railways in Queensland. Of special interest are the hand coloured photos featuring Lahey’s Canungra tramway, which adds an extra dimension to the book. It is very well illustrated and our price is $29.00.
NEW ITEMS
Auscision Models have delivered stock of the new 60’ louvre van the KLY/NLKY and its variants. There are thirteen different sets of four wagons covering the initial PTC blue three letter coded wagons, through the PTC/SRA blue and red eras, then recoded for operations under National Rail, Sadleir’s in the green livery and Pacific National in the blue livery. In addition, there are two packs of weathered brown colour schemes wagons which is how many of the wagons looked in later years of service with the SRA of NSW. With some 200 wagons built, the wagons are still seen in large numbers in various trains today, and often cross the Nullarbor on travels between the eater states and Perth. Once again the detail level is very good for these wagons. As the wagons were fitted with high speed bogies, they were also used in passenger traffic for carriage of mail and parcels. We have all variants in stock at present and our price for each pack of four wagons is $239.95.
Auscision has also delivered a new range of trees designed to represent a number of Australian gum trees, as well as some varieties of palms, and general Australian outline trees. There are some forty different tree packs and we have approximately a third of the range at present. Please note some of the palm tree styles have now sold out, but we have a few left. Prices range from $14.95 for smaller trees to $36.95 for larger examples. Some packs contain one, while others contain up to three of the same style of tree.
EXPECTED PUBLICATIONS
The 2011 AMRM calendar is due in stock shortly. In the usual double-sided format it features a good range of steam loco hauled trains in service throughout Australia on one side, and a wide range of diesels haled trains on the reverse. Our price will be $17.00.
Eveleigh has also announced the expected release of Byways of Steam 27. It will be released in early August and has articles on the Port Waratah steam depot, the Mount Victoria steam depot, an article on the Richmond line, and an article covering the NSW four wheel hoppers written by Ian Dunn. At some 172 pages, it is larger than usual and our price will be $43.50.
GENERAL NEWS
The Miniature Train Club Gold Coast is holding their inaugural show this coming weekend (24 and 25 July) at the Ashmore PCYC, Dominions Road, Ashmore on the Gold Coast. Opening hours are 9.00 am till 5.00 pm on the Saturday and 9.00 am till 4.00 pm on the Sunday. Entry is $5 for adults, $3 concession and family passes are available. Over 20 layouts are expected to be in attendance.
The Railway Modellers Club will be holding their annual Pine Rivers Model Train and Hobby Expo at the Strathpine Community Centre, 199 Gympie Road Strathpine on 7 and 8 August. Entry is off Mecklem Street. Opening hours are 9.00 am till 5.00 pm on the Saturday and 9.00 am till 4.00 pm on the Sunday. Entry is $5 for adults, $4 concession, $2 children and family passes are available.
The Murwillumbah High School in Nullum Street, Murwillumbah will play host to the bi-annual Tweed Model Railway and Hobby Exhibition on 14 and 15 August. Opening hours are 9.00 am till 5.00 pm on the Saturday and 9.00 am till 4.00 pm on the Sunday. It will feature a wide variety of layouts, other hobbies and always offers an interesting day out for those travelling a bit further afield.
The Modelling the Railways of Queensland 2010 Convention will be held on 28 August at the Mt Gravatt showgrounds in Brisbane. This is a new, enlarged venue and there will be a range of presentations on the day covering both government and private operations in Queensland. A new feature this year will be a presentation on Getting Started in Model Railways, and is aimed at providing some advice to newcomers to the hobby. Pre-registration is required to attend the convention. Registration packs are available from the Secretary at PO box 4615, Eight Mile Plains, Qld 4113, or by email to: mrqc2010@optusnet.com.au
Horizon Hobbies will have a trade stand at each of the above venues, and we look forward to catching up with many of our mail-order customers as well as regular shop attendees if you can make it.
Happy modelling for now
John Guest
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