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• Day 1 The Explosives and Heritage Tour Saturday & Sunday 13 & 14 September 2025

  • When
    13 Sep 2025
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    2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    Mulwala
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  The Explosives and Heritage Tour

  Saturday & Sunday 13 & 14 September 2025

  DAY 1 Registration

  
  

  The September 2025 tour will be to Mulwala, Wodonga and Seymour on the weekend of 13th and 14th of September 2025. Because there are restricted numbers who can attend the 13^th September visit to Mulwala, separate registration is required for each day.

  Registrants are welcome to invite guests but, because of restricted numbers, they must register separately

  For those attending on Saturday 13th we will meet at the Thales ADF facility at Bayly Street, Mulwala in NSW (just across the border from Yarrawonga) at 2PM for a restricted tour of the remnants of their extensive WW2 explosive’s tramway, including battery loco and rolling stock.  The tramway is standard gauge and has transverse loading trolleys that are 3ft gauge.

  Please register for this component of the weekend only if you definitely intend to attend. Numbers are restricted. Once limit of 25 is reached later registrants will be wait listed. 

  
  

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• Day 2 Explosives and Heritage Tour -Wodonga (Leneva) & Seymour - Sunday 14 September 2025

  • When
    14 Sep 2025
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    10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    Leneva and Seymour

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  The Explosives and Heritage Tour

  Saturday & Sunday 13 & 14 September 2025

  DAY 2 Registration

  
  

  The September 2025 tour will be to Mulwala, Wodonga and Seymour on the weekend of 13th and 14th of September 2025. Because there are restricted numbers who can attend the 13^th September visit to Mulwala, separate registration is required for each day.

  For those attending on Sunday 14 September for the visit to Wombat Gully and the Seymour Heritage Railway Centre, the day will commence at the Wombat Gully Tramway, a 12-inch gauge tourist tramway, at 10AM on the Beechworth-Wodonga Road in Leneva.  Leneva is approximately 10km south of Wodonga.

  Members will be required to make a $10 donation per person and this will entitle them to several rides on the Wombat Gully one-foot gauge tourist tramway. We will also be able to visit their engine shed, station and rolling stock. We will spend approximately two hours at the tramway.

  From Leneva, members will drive to Seymour for a tour of the Seymour Heritage Railway Centre starting at 2.30PM sharp. It will take roughly two hours to drive to Seymour via Beechworth and don’t forget to grab lunch on the way. Members will be required to make a $5 donation per person to the Centre for the tour, which will be run by volunteers who will come in especially for our visit.

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• October 2025, LRRSA Members Zoom meeting - Andy Becker - The Emu Bay in a Day

  • When
    9 Oct 2025
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    8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
  • Location
    This meeting will be conducted online using Zoom

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  Andy Becker will present on the following subject:

  The Emu Bay in a Day

  In the summer of 1991, an opportunistic meeting with an Emu Bay Railway driver at the Don River Railway resulted in an extraordinary trip down Tasmania’s West Coast.  This talk will describe the events leading up to that trip as well as the day trip from Burnie to Primrose and return.  Fantastic people, trains and scenery in a nutshell.

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• December 2025, LRRSA Members Zoom meeting - Peter Lucas - South Australian Light Railways

  • When
    11 Dec 2025
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    8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
  • Location
    This meeting will be conducted online using Zoom

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  Peter Lucas will present on the following subject:

  South Australian Light Railways

  There were seven hundred light railways in South Australia; now only nine remain. Peter Lucas will provide an overview of the State’s light railways, the types of propulsion and what they were used for. The slide show will include many historic photographs plus some videos of light railways in action. It will finish with a brief introduction to the South Australian Light Railway Centre at Milang.

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• August 2026, LRRSA Members Zoom meeting - Ross Sadler - Darjeeling Action 1996

  • When
    13 Aug 2026
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    8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
  • Location
    This meeting will be conducted online using Zoom

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  Ross Sadler will present on the following subject:

  Darjeeling Action 1996

  The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway (DHR) is a world heritage listed site, some 88 kilometres long which connects Siliguri (New Jalpaiguri) and Darjeeling.   In the process, this 2 ft gauge line climbs from about 328 ft above sea level at Siliguri to 7,407 ft at Ghum, before descending to Darjeeling (7,218 ft above sea level), using six zig-zags and five loops to gain altitude. Construction took place between 1879 and 1881, with subsequent modifications such as the Batasia Loop which was built in 1919 to ease the grade for trains climbing out of Darjeeling.  Over the years, the line has seen a variety of motive power, ranging from the 0-4-0ST B-Class, built by Sharp, Stewart and Company and later the North British Locomotive Company, through Beyer Garratts to diesels, which are the present-day motive power on the line.  Attempts to covert one of the 0-4-0ST B-Class into a modern steam locomotive were unsuccessful, Indian Railways turning their back on offers from DLM (formerly SLM Switzerland).

  Today, steam is restricted to running special trains on the upper sections of the line, but in 1996, the DHR was a 100% steam operation.  The presentation is the result of three days’ linesiding on the DHR in that year, at a time when the track was fortunately free of the avalanches that have bedevilled its operation throughout its history.

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