Australian Railwayman : From Cadet Engineer to Railways Commissioner.

By:

Fitch, R. J. (Ronald John), 1910- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Sydney : Rosenberg Pub., 2006.Description: 1 online resource (248 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781922013095
1922013099
9781922013101
1922013102

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Australian Railwayman : From Cadet Engineer to Railways Commissioner.DDC classification:

385.092 385.0994

LOC classification:

TF140.F394

Online resources:

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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.

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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.