Published Resources Details
Journal Article
- Title
- Keeping Alive the Footplate Tradition: Maintaining the Operating Steam Heritage of 140 years on the Queenland Railways
- In
- Australian Journal of Multi-disciplinary Engineering
- Imprint
- vol. 3, no. 1, 2005, pp. 57-61
- Url
- https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.194844387660163
- Abstract
QR's operational history officially began on 31 July 1865. Today QR is a world leader in operations on 1067mm gauge, operating the fastest trains in Australia, as well as some the longest and heaviest in Australia on a non-standard gauge railway. The legacy of nearly 140 years of railway operation and development is now being recognised in the identification of places of heritage significance, and their conservation and management by QR, through the work of QR's Heritage Committee. Alone in Australia, and as one of a small number of places in the world, an operating fleet of steam locomotives, and vintage carriages are also maintained as part of the work of QR. Steam last saw regular operation in Queensland in 1969. This paper will demonstrate how part of the operating heritage of QR is maintained through the work of the its heritage operations area. Future operations will require that skills and knowledge of the footplate tradition are passed on in a modern railway operation environment.
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- '12th National Engineering Heritage Conference - Selected Papers (2003 : Toowoomba)', Australian Journal of Multi-disciplinary Engineering, 3 (1) (2005), https://search.informit.org/toc/ajmde/3/1. Details