Lou Rae

Lou Rae is a Tasmanian author and historian of the West Coast of Tasmania.

His publications have included articles about Rosebery, Tasmania,[1] the Emu Bay Railway[2] Queenstown, Tasmania[3] and the Mount Lyell Railway otherwise known as the Abt Railway,[4] as well as the Sandfly Colliery Tramway.[5]

His publications about railways on the west coast of Tasmania have gone into multiple editions, as well as modifying for the changes in the fate of the railways.[6]

He also has been a postgraduate student at the University of Tasmania, culminating in his 2005 PhD thesis about the Mount Lyell area.[7][8]

His session at The Unconformity event in Queenstown in October 2016 addresses the issues of sources and historiography of the Western Tasmanian region.[9]

  1. ^ Rae, Lou (1994), A window on Rosebery : a pictorial review of the 100 years in and around the environs of Rosebery on Tasmania's rugged West Coast, 1893-1993, L. Rae, ISBN 978-0-9592098-4-6
  2. ^ Rae, Lou (1991), The Emu Bay Railway : VDL Company to Pasminco, L. Rae, ISBN 978-0-9592098-2-2
  3. ^ "03 Apr 2001 - Writers Program - Lou Rae - Archived Website". Archived from the original on 3 April 2001.
  4. ^ Rae, Lou (1993), The Mt Lyell Mining and Railway Co. Ltd : a pictorial history 1893-1993, L. Rae, ISBN 978-0-9592098-3-9
  5. ^ Rae, Lou. An introduction to the Sandfly colliery tramway; Whitham, Lindsay. The Sandfly Coal Mine and tramway; Chynoweth, R. Wayne. The locomotives of the Sandfly and Catamaran tramways; Light Railway Research Society of Australia (1988), Sandfly colliery tramway, Tasmania, Light Railway Research Society of Australia, retrieved 11 January 2014
  6. ^ An example is the range of titles from 1988 to the 2010s about the Abt Railway
  7. ^ Rae, Louis Gould (2005), The lost province : exploration, isolation, innovation and domination in the Mount Lyell Region, 1859-1935, retrieved 21 June 2015
  8. ^ [Biographical cuttings on Lou Rae, author and historian, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals], 1900, retrieved 11 January 2014
  9. ^ "New Discoveries, Old Traps | The Unconformity". theunconformity.com.au. Archived from the original on 10 October 2016.