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In 1873, James Chung Gon came to Australia as a young man in search of gold but found tin instead in Tasmania. Throughout 151 years, his family have become a household name on the "Apple Isle".
James Chung Gon arrived in Australia to try his luck on the goldfields of Bendigo. Legend has it that all he had to his name was a shilling in his pocket, but he turned it into a fortune.
Although not the first Tasmanian 12CSVT to be set aside for preservation - that honour goes to 2144 (ex ZC19 ex 1318) - the most significant of the extant Tasmanian 12CSVT's, 2118 (ex ZA6), has been delivered, by road, to it new home - the Tasmanian Transport Museum in Glenorchy. Coverage of its transport from Tasrail's East Tamar Jctn Workshops to the TTM at Glenorchy has been covered in detail, with photos, on the Facebook pages of the Tas. Transport Museum and Tasmanian Railway Group. Tasrail (ATN / PN) No. 2118, ex ANR (Tas) / TGR No. ZA6, is one of the most historically significant locom...
Print text only Cancel A Tasmanian coroner has described the death of two sisters in a shed fire in 2017 as an "indescribable, but avoidable tragedy". Key points: The sisters died after the shed they were sleeping in caught fire Coroner Simon Cooper said the most likely cause was an electrical fault Ruby Brewer and her sister Shanzel were just 13 and 11 years old when the shed they were sleeping in caught fire and burnt to the ground. At the time of their deaths, the girls were living on a 3.1-hectare rural block in Turners Marsh, north of Launceston. The block of land was owned by Kristy Se...