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1 online resource (248 pages) |
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text file |
| Contents |
Author's Note; 1 A Lifetime of Memories; 2 A Railway Family; 3 Home Town Memories; 4 School Days; 5 Academe; 6 Western Australia, 1927-49; 7 Building Railways The Hard Way; 8 Commonwealth Railways,1949-54; 9 South Australian Railways, 1954-73; 10 My Standardisation Story; 11 Perambulations:Train, Trolley and Armstrong; 12 A Special Breed; 13 Mentors, Superiors and Colleagues; 14 Reflections; Index. |
| Summary |
Ron Fitch was born in 1910 into a railway family. He began his career as a 16-year-old engineering cadet and completed it, 46 years later, having worked at various times for two state railways and the Commonwealth, as Commissioner of South Australian Railways. In this book Fitch gives a vivid account not only of his career but of the camaraderie of the greater railway community. This is a book for all train enthusiasts, celebrating the men, the machinery, the toil and the technology, that opened up a vast and sparsely populated continent. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Fitch, R. J. (Ronald John), 1910-
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Railroad engineers -- Australia -- Biography.
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Railroad engineers. |
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Australia. |
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Biographies.
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Railroads -- Australia -- History.
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Railroads. |
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History. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Fitch, Ron J. Australian Railwayman : From Cadet Engineer to Railways Commissioner. Sydney : Rosenberg Publishing, ©2006 9781877058486 |
| ISBN |
9781922013095 electronic book |
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1922013099 electronic book |
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9781922013101 electronic book |
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1922013102 electronic book |
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1877058483 |
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9781877058486 |
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