Title The desert railway / Patsy Adam Smith

Published [Adelaide] : Rigby, [1974] [Adelaide] : Rigby, [1974]

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W'PONDS	385.0994 Ada		AVAILABLE

Description 138 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm Contents 1. The Trans -- 2. The trail blazer -- 3. The nickel-plated banjo -- 4. The desert schooners -- 5. Port Augusta, back of beyond -- 6. The route -- 7. A waterless land -- 8. Building the line -- 9. The desert echo -- 10. A day's work for a day's pay -- 11. Closing the gap -- 12. The map shrinkers -- 13. The Nullarbor strike -- 14. Daisy and the railway -- 15. The Royal Train traveller Analysis Transport. Railways. Australia. Trans-Australian Railway, 1912-1917 Notes Transport. Railways. Australia. Trans-Australian Railway, 1912-1917 (ANB/PRECIS SIN 600233901) Subject Trans-Australian Railway Railroads -- Australia -- History. Railroads -- Australia. Trans-Australian Railway SUBJECT Nullarbor Plain (S.A. and W.A.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96006881 -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001278 Transcontinental Railway (S. Aust and N.T.) -- History LC no. anb85179675 ISBN 0851796753 9780851796758

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