Light Railway Research Society of Australia

[1][2][3] The society originated in 1961 in Victoria; it subsequently established branches in Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney.

[4] It aims to promote interest in special-purpose railways associated with a wide range of industries, including sugar production, timber milling, tourism, construction, manufacturing, quarrying and mining.

Members' interests include industrial archaeology, social history, preservation, mapping, bush walking and photography.

[5] The society has been credited with some of the most thorough research and publication about light railways in Australia and worldwide.

Their early regional studies of the industrial archaeology of timber tramways, usually based on detailed field research, were significant since studies of the industrial history of Australian forests were otherwise largely non-existent.