The first in a new series of Railway histories from ARHS Victoria combines serious railway research and relevant social and local history. The Bungaree Racecourse Railway tells of how an Irish Catholic community overcame staunch Government opposition to obtain a railway to their local racecourse. It was a major political achievement making the story of the railway a significant part of the history of horse racing at Bungaree, which spanned almost 100 years. At 40 pages and well illustrated, it makes for great reading.

$24.95 plus Postage

A photographic journey of Australian railway scenes taken between 1961 and the current day from the camera of well known railway enthusiast, Weston Langford. Times Past… Places Distant contains over 90 colour photographs - with descriptive captions - illustrating scenes of steam, diesel and railmotors taken throughout Australia. Unusual and now rare scenes include the west coast of Tasmania, in remote mining areas of WA, and in Brisbane and Adelaide. Various motive power from government and private railways as well as signalling, stations, infrastructure and other interesting railway related topics are also captured. 52 pages printed on high quality paper with hardback cover.

$49.95 plus Postage

The fruit of eighteen years careful research, Buffer Stops and Baulks documents, for the first time, the history and structural details of buffer stops and baulks used on the Victorian Railways. The book is a valuable reference and contains over 60 black and white photographs, 20 colour photographs and 51 line illustrations and plans, including 21 original Victorian Railways buffer stop construction plans. The Victorian Railways Reference Series, featuring meticulous research and much unpublished official VR material, will grow to be both a comprehensive record and reference for historians, museums and modellers, as well as an informative read for those interested in the detail or identification of trackside and other railway infrastructure.

$39.95 plus Postage

This volume is a distinguished reproduction of the original Victorian Railways book, first produced in 1914, and is a ‘must-have’ for every discerning railway historian and modeller. This commanding publication – 268mm x 370mm – has been faithfully reproduced to reflect the original. Printed on superior cream paper and quarter bound, this book contains 93 pages with over 100 scale diagrams.

With this limited print run of only 500 copies the ARHS (Victorian division) is proud to launch this fine publication as the first in its Limited Edition Series.

$198.00 plus P&H

THE VICTORIAN DIVISION CROSSES THE BORDER to publish this 320 page hard cover book, with many illustrations, providing an authoritative insight into the first years of the South Australian Railways. Ron Stewien is an authority on the railway history of South Australia and hardly needs introduction. Malcolm Thompson, another notable railway historian, has provided additional material to assist this excellent and distinguished production.

$69.95 plus P&H

This book provides an authoritative insight into the evolution of signalling systems on the Victorian Railways.

An outstanding aspect of this publication is the manner in which the author, Peter Fisher, has researched the development of signalling systems overseas (particularly in the UK and the USA) to establish the correlation between overseas best practice and its adoption and adaptation to the Victorian environment. He explores how and why Victoria chose to blend two vastly different philosophies to achieve cohesive outcome.

It was Peter Fisher’s concern that the mechanical signals on the Victorian Railways are fast disappearing without any published record which led him to his meticulous preparation of the material from this publication.

The book’s 120 pages are printed on high quality paper and include over 160 black & white and colour photographs and illustrations.

$55.00 plus P&H

Visions of the Victorian Railways is a fascinating pictorial history of the era of the Victorian railways from 1854 to 1985. It tells the story of the Victorian Railways through the eyes of well known railway enthusiast, the late Gerald Dee, who started his career in the Victorian Railways as a lad labourer and worked through the grades to become an engine driver and then progressed to various management positions within the Victorian Railways and later in the Public Transport Corporation of Victoria.

Visions of the Victorian Railways contains a fascinating insight to the human side of the railways; descriptions including drivers, signalmen, station masters and refreshment room staff. The contents also focus on the various types of motive power used over the years as well as signalling, stations, infrastructure and other railway related topics.

The author has carefully selected over 160 black & white and colour photographs, from various collections, and written a comprehensive caption for each. Visions of the Victorian Railways is stunningly presented in a large landscape format, of 240 pages printed on high quality paper and complete with hardback cover.

$59.95 plus P&H

This book is the story of one man‘s journey through the old VR system, starting off as a Lad Porter and making his way to being a Station Master at Flinders Street. This is very much a social history of an era that is now long past - Those who remember it will enjoy reading the book and those who don‘t will find a good insight into how things actually worked in those days.

$49.95 plus P&H

Streamlined Thoroughbreds is a lavishly illustrated book published to illustrate the working careers of the Commonwealth Railway‘s GM class, Victoria‘s S class and New South Wales‘ 42 and 421 class of locomotives. These locomotives were introduced in the early 1950‘s to replace ageing steam locomotives and so revolutionised those railway systems. The locomotive design was a modified version of the F7 model for the Electric Motive Division of the General Electric Corporation of America. The contract for the building of these locomotives in Australia was awarded to Clyde Engineering Company Limited of New South Wales.

$44.95 plus P&H

$89.95 plus P&H