Colonial engineer : John Whitton 1819-1898 and the building of Australia's railways /
Raised in the milieu of the great English pioneer railway engineers, John Whitton conquered the Great Dividing Range in the 1860s, building transmontane lines by hand, before the use of dynamite and in some of the most remote and inhospitable terrain. His origins were humble, and his story one of so...
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Sydney :
UNSW Press,
[2000]
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