Tullah and its Tramways
By Ross Mainwaring
To be published in November 2024 by the Light Railway Research Society of Australia Inc (lrrsa.org.au).
ISBN 978-0-909340-61-2
Hard cover, 160 pages, A4 size, 190 photographs, 14maps and diagrams, with references, and index
The book is a comprehensive history of the copper mines of the Mount Lyell area around Queenstown, Tasmania; and the associated 2 ft gauge tramways.
For over fifty years the small mining town of Tullah, in the rugged mountains of western Tasmania, had only one connection with the outside world - a lightly built 2 ft gauge tramway worked by small four-wheel steam locomotives. The most famous of these was Wee Georgie Wood, which oft...