Move your mouse over image or click to enlarge
Clydes Among the Cane: Fiji's Sugar Railway on Viti Levu (ASCR-CA)
Product No.: ASCR-CA
Title: Clydes Among the Cane: Fiji's Sugar Railway on Viti Levu
Author(s): Dunn, Ian
Illustrator(s): N/A
Publisher: Eveleigh Press
ISBN: 9781876568863
Condition: New
Binding: Softcover
Dust Jacket: No Jacket
Edition: First
Publication Year: April, 2010
Features: 60 Pages with Colour photographs and Map Drawings.
Australia's sugar giant, CSR, had a far-flung outpost in the blue Pacific, where it built over 400km of cane tramway and ran several large mills. CSR's cane railway on Fiji survives today on the islands of Viti Levu and Vanua Levu, under new ownership. It provides a fascinating window onto the Australian cane tramway of the 1960s, set in a tropical paradise.
Motive power is mainly diesel-hydraulic 0-6-0s from Clyde Engineering in Sydney and operating practices mirror those of Queensland four decades ago.
This all-colour album showcases the Clyde diesels amongst the cane fields and forests of Fiji between 2005 and 2009.