28 Pages with Black & White Photos. The book "The Wagga Wagga to Tumbarumba Railway - Why was it built?" is a celebration of the centenary of the opening of the Ladysmith Railway Station. This occurred on the same day that the line was officially opened to Humula without ceremony on May 14 1917, The book is a joint production by Tumba Rail and the Wagga Wagga Rail Heritage Association, however Ron Madden and Mark Pottie collected the majority of the content. It seeks to demonstrate that when the line was constructed right through until the end of the Steam Era, there were good reasons why the line was built. Financially however, it failed to live up to its assessments of some of its most prominent proponents, who often had vested interests in seeing the line built. The railway didn't ever return a penny against the capital outlaid to construct it, although that was far from an unusual state of affairs in the Steam Era of NSW. Many of the railways were built when the horse was still the main form of transport and only the wealthy had steam or petrol driven cars or motor lorries. The line was built when State Governments were boldly going into the wilderness to open up the land, because that's what the people wanted, and with Australia a growing Nation, it needed the produce that branch lines could supply. In the long run, however, most branch lines couldn't compete against cars and trucks and in time became the irrelevant equivalents of snail mail in an email driven world.

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Title

The Wagga Wagga to Tumbarumba Railway: Why Was it Built?

Publisher

Tumba Rail & Wagga Wagga Rail Heritage, Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia

Publication Date

2017

Binding

Soft cover

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

New

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