Lou Rae is a Tasmanian author and historian of the West Coast of Tasmania.
His publications have included articles about Rosebery, Tasmania,[1] the Emu Bay Railway[2] Queenstown, Tasmania[3] and the Mount Lyell Railway otherwise known as the Abt Railway,[4] as well as the Sandfly Colliery Tramway.[5]
His publications about railways on the west coast of Tasmania have gone into multiple editions, as well as modifying for the changes in the fate of the railways.[6]
He also has been a postgraduate student at the University of Tasmania, culminating in his 2005 PhD thesis about the Mount Lyell area.[7][8]
His session at The Unconformity event in Queenstown in October 2016 addresses the issues of sources and historiography of the Western Tasmanian region.[9]
Publications
- Rae, Lou (1984), A history of railways and tramways on Tasmania's West Coast (4th ed.), L. Rae (published 1986), ISBN 978-0-9592098-0-8
- Rae, Lou (1988), The ABT Railway : on Tasmania's West Coast, L. Rae, ISBN 978-0-9592098-1-5 [10]
- Rae, Lou. An introduction to the Sandfly colliery tramway; Whitham, Lindsay. The Sandfly Coal Mine and tramway; Chynoweth, R. Wayne. The locomotives of the Sandfly and Catamaran tramways; Light Railway Research Society of Australia (1988), Sandfly colliery tramway, Tasmania, Light Railway Research Society of Australia, retrieved 9 June 2018
- Rae, Lou (1991), The Emu Bay Railway : VDL Company to Pasminco, L. Rae, ISBN 978-0-9592098-2-2
- Rae, Lou (1993), The Mt Lyell Mining and Railway Co. Ltd : a pictorial history 1893-1993, L. Rae, ISBN 978-0-9592098-3-9
- Rae, Lou (1994), The Abt Railway, and railways of the Lyell region, L. Rae, ISBN 978-0-9592098-5-3 [11]
- Rae, Lou (1994), A window on Rosebery : a pictorial review of the 100 years in and around the environs of Rosebery on Tasmania's rugged West Coast, 1893-1993, L. Rae, ISBN 978-0-9592098-4-6
- Rae, Lou (1997), The Emu Bay Railway (2nd ed.), L. Rae, ISBN 978-0-9592098-6-0
- Rae, Lou (2003), The Abt Railway : Tasmania's West Coast Wilderness Railway, Lou Rae, ISBN 978-0-9592098-8-4
- Rae, Louis Gould (2005), The lost province : exploration, isolation, innovation and domination in the Mount Lyell Region, 1859-1935, retrieved 21 June 2015
Notes
- ^ Rae, Lou (1994), A window on Rosebery : a pictorial review of the 100 years in and around the environs of Rosebery on Tasmania's rugged West Coast, 1893-1993, L. Rae, ISBN 978-0-9592098-4-6
- ^ Rae, Lou (1991), The Emu Bay Railway : VDL Company to Pasminco, L. Rae, ISBN 978-0-9592098-2-2
- ^ "03 Apr 2001 - Writers Program - Lou Rae - Archived Website". Archived from the original on 3 April 2001.
- ^ Rae, Lou (1993), The Mt Lyell Mining and Railway Co. Ltd : a pictorial history 1893-1993, L. Rae, ISBN 978-0-9592098-3-9
- ^ Rae, Lou. An introduction to the Sandfly colliery tramway; Whitham, Lindsay. The Sandfly Coal Mine and tramway; Chynoweth, R. Wayne. The locomotives of the Sandfly and Catamaran tramways; Light Railway Research Society of Australia (1988), Sandfly colliery tramway, Tasmania, Light Railway Research Society of Australia, retrieved 11 January 2014
- ^ An example is the range of titles from 1988 to the 2010s about the Abt Railway
- ^ Rae, Louis Gould (2005), The lost province : exploration, isolation, innovation and domination in the Mount Lyell Region, 1859-1935, retrieved 21 June 2015
- ^ [Biographical cuttings on Lou Rae, author and historian, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals], 1900, retrieved 11 January 2014
- ^ "New Discoveries, Old Traps | The Unconformity". theunconformity.com.au. Archived from the original on 10 October 2016.
- ^ Rae, Lou (1988), The ABT Railway : on Tasmania's West Coast, L. Rae, ISBN 978-0-9592098-1-5
- ^ Rae, Lou (1994), The Abt Railway, and railways of the Lyell region, L. Rae, ISBN 978-0-9592098-5-3
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