Volume 26 features:

• Railways and Collieries of the West Wallsend District. Brian Andrews gives an account of the coal railways of the area.
• Another Trial Trip. Before engine crews are passed for a specific class of locomotive, it is necessary for the men to successfully handle the engine on a Trial Trip in the presence of a Locomotive Inspector. Long time Junee engineman Pat Turner relates a few problems which he and driver Dick Evans had with a 60 class Garratt on one such trip.
• Our Railway Heritage – Kogarah. Robert Booth looks at this Sydney suburban location.
• Thank God for the Far West. From 1931 until 1967, The Far West Children’s Health Scheme Carriages were a familiar sight in outback New South Wales. Converted from former passenger carriages, the cars conveyed a nursing sister to various locations where she tended and gave advice to expectant or new mothers and so helped to reverse a frightening incidence of child mortality and illness in the outback. This article covers the history of this most worthwhile scheme and the carriages which served it so well.
• Steam Depots in NSW: Mt Victoria. Ray Love presents the life and times of this small but important locomotive out-depot located at the top of the Blue Mountains.
• Coals to Newcastle in Days Past. Ray Loves photo essay reliving the haulage of coal in Newcastle.
• Timber Tramways of the 7th Section. Jim Longworth provides an insight into two timber tramways, the Bonville Timber Tramway and the Boambee Timber Tramway.
• What’s Your Number? Ian Dunn presents an overview of the locomotive numbering practices of the NSWGR, and a description of the numeral forms used on steam and diesel locomotives from 1855 to 1982.