The Victorian Railway History Library is an incorporated association that assumed the library assets of the now defunct Australian Railway History Society (Victorian Division) in 2020.
A collection of railway books and journals ,specializing in Australian material but also with a large collection of material from the United Kingdom and other parts the world. The library contains over 3,000 volumes. It is the library of the former ARHS (Victorian Division)
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A commemorative booklet to mark the start of the building of the standard gauge railway from Stirling North to Maree on 27th July 1957.
railway construction - australia, north australia railway - australia - history
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A reprinted edition of the gradiant and curvature diagrams of all the Victorian Government Railways in 1927
railway infrastructure - victoria, railroad operations - victoria - history
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A reprinted edition of the gradiant and curvature diagrams of all the Victorian Government Railways in 1927
railway infrastructure - victoria, railroad operations - victoria - history
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Gradiant and curvature diagrams of all the New South Wales Government Railways, date unknown.
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A commemorative booklet to mark the start of the building of the standard gauge railway from Tarcoola to Alice Springs on 12th April 1975.
railway construction - australia, trans-australian railway - history
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A history of the narrow gauge 3'6" and broad gauge 5'3" railways in South-East South Australia centered on Naracoorte and Mt Gambier.
railway construction - australia, narrow gauge railroads - south australia - history
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A history of the building of the Transcontinental railway from Port Augusta to Kalgoorlie, the first great work of Australia's federation.
railway construction - australia, trans-australian railway - history
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A history of wooden bridges in Victoria, rail, road and pedestrian.
bridges - victoria - design and construction, bridges - victoria - history
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A history of railway underbridges (structures that support a railway line) in New South Wales
railway construction - new south wales - history, bridges -- new south wales -- design and construction
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A reference booik for historians, museums and discerning modellers about the different buffer stops and baulks used on the Victorian Railways.
railway infrastructure - victoria, railway infrastructure - australia
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A history of railway tunnels in Queensland both government and private railways and tramways.
railway construction - queensland - history, railway tunnels - australia - history
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A history of railway viaducts in Australia
railway construction - australia, railway viaducts - australia - history
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A history of railway tunnels in Australia
railway tunnels - australia - history, railway construction - australia
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A manual for bridge design in Australia and New Zealand from 1974.
bridge design - australia, bridge design - new zealand
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A history of the building of the New South Wales Government Railway from Kiama to Bomaderry on the South Coast.
railway construction - new south wales - history, shoalhaven region - history
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Volume 1 of a comprehensive history of the Commonwealth Engineering firm in Sydney and the rail and road vehicles they built from 1921 to 1955
commonwealth engineering co - history, engineering - australia - history
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A history of the Phoenix Foundry of Ballarat and the locomotives it built
steam locomotives - victoria- history, phoenix foundry - ballarat - history
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A detailed history of the power stations built by the New South Wales Government Railways to provide electricity for their trains.
railroad construction - new south wales - history, electric trains - new south wales - history
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A detailed comparison of the Melbourne and Sydney electric suburban railways.
suburban railways - sydney, suburban railways - melbourne
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A brief history of tramways in Australia and New Zealand
trams - australia - history, trams - new zealand - history
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A history of the private Emu Bay railways on the West Coast of Tasmania from the days of the Van Diemen's Land Company to Pasminco.
railway operations - tasmania - history, emu bay railway - tasmania - history
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A history of the private Emu Bay railways on the West Coast of Tasmania.
railway operations - tasmania - history, emu bay railway - tasmania - history
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A history of the railways and tramways of the West Coast of Tasmania both private and government, 3'6" and narrower gauge lines.
railway operations - tasmania - history, railway construction - tasmania - history
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A history of the railways, locomotives and rollingstock of the Tasmania Government Railways from 1830 to 1962.
railway operations - tasmania - history, railway construction - tasmania - history
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A pictorial history of the railways and tramways of western Tasmania including government and private, 3'6" gauge and smaller gauged tramways.
railway operations - tasmania - history, railway construction - tasmania - history
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A brief history of the Tasmanian Government Railway branch line from Railton to Roland in Tasmania in the Municipality of Kentish.
railway operations - tasmania - history, railway construction - tasmania - history
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A brief history of the Launceston Western Railway Company Ltd and their railway from Launceston to Deloraine from 1867 to 1904. This includes their 5'3" gauge railway and the re-gauged 3'6" railway.
railway operations - tasmania - history, railway construction - tasmania - history
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A history of the Port Arthur Railway across the Tasman Peninsula in Tasmania.
railway operations - tasmania - history, railway construction - tasmania - history
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A booklet for the Rail Fans Festival rail tour of the Tasmania Railway both government and private in 1973.
railway operations - tasmania - history, preserved locomotives - tasmania - history
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A history of the Tasmania railways both government and private to mark the centenary of the first railway in 1871.
railway operations - tasmania - history, railway construction - tasmania - history
