This certainly brought back memories: in my younger days, I travelled twice on this line, once on a goods train and once on an ARHS excursion. I may even have some photos from that time, but I've yet to locate them. Although these trips were good fun at the time, we took so much for granted then, and only in hindsight do we appreciate what we experienced.
As every Victorian railway enthusiast knows, Shelley was the highest station on the Victorian railway network (2562 ft).Back to the book: various chapters deal with the history of the line (including the relocation of the town of Tallangatta between 1952 and 1956), stories about the enginemen, the various trains that operated on the line, mishaps, the Snowy Mountains scheme traffic, the life of the bridge gangers and the eventual closure of the line. There are many photographs, which really do contribute greatly to the book.
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