Description

Contents

The Brown Family

Early Coal Mining Ventures

The Beginning

Early Minmi Coal Mining Operations

The Brown’s First Minmi Venture

Hartley Vale and New Lambton Collieries

The Return to Minmi

The Establishment of Richmond Vale Colliery

Later Coal Mining Activities

Formation of J & A Brown & Abermain Seaham Collieries Ltd

Modern Minmi

Stockrington Collieries

Hexham

The Richmond Vale Railway 

Working the Richmond Vale Railway to 1967

Description of the Richmond Vale Railway -1950 Era

Traffic Operations

Ticketing

Safe Working

Strikes and Lockouts

Floods and Diversions

Accidents

Locomotives

Rollingstock

Fettlers Trolleys and Railmotors

Wagons

Proposed Dieselisation of the Richmond Vale Railway

Passenger Traffic

The Last Twenty Years of Operation

Photo Gallery

Appendix Foldouts

Appendices

Glossary of Mining Terms

Bibliography and References

General Index

Index of Drawings

ARHS NSW Publications.

Brian Robert Andrews. Second (revised) edition. The story of the Railways and Collieries of J & A Brown. Hard cover. Expanded to 400 pages.