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Colonial Engineer: John Whitton 1819-1898 and the Building of Australia's Railways

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Raised in the milieu of the great English pioneer railway engineers George and Robert Stephenson, John Whitton conquered the Great Dividing Range in the 1860s, building transmontane lines by hand, laying them with rails of iron and with bridges of stone. This is the story of his life and work.

360 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

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