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SUMMARY:The Main Range Railway — ATS 50 Year Celebration Series
DESCRIPTION:Webinar\, 1-2 pm AEST \nOverview\nThis webinar will provide the history of the Southern and Western Railway of Queensland which runs from the town of Ipswich to Toowoomba\, a distance of 78 miles\, and divided into two branches\, one running to Dalby\, a distance of 52 miles\, and the other to Warwick\, a distance of 62 miles\, making a total of 192 miles. \nThe ascent of the Main Range from Murphy’s Creek to Toowoomba made this one of the most difficult sections to engineer. It involved steep gradients\, numerous rocking cuttings\, and 11 tunnels—also in rock—which had to be lined with brickwork\, and of which one is 27 chains in length. \nEngineers also faced challenges of twenty iron bridges\, with lattice girders\, 12 feet apart from centre to centre\, and in spans varying from 60 feet to 100 feet\, with an amount of waterway almost unparalleled on a similar length of line. \nSpeaker\nGreg Hallam\nHistorian Queensland rail \nGreg Hallam has been with Queensland Rail since 2000. He is a third-generation member of the Queensland railways\, with a grandfather commencing as a locomotive cleaner in Bundaberg in 1911. Greg is a postgraduate student of the University of Queensland and is a member of the Professional Historians Association of Queensland. Having been active professionally in the community history and cultural heritage field\, his working career has also included being the Queensland Heritage Registrar with the former Department of Environment and Heritage. He has also been published in several journals\, such as Queensland History.
URL:https://australiantunnellingsociety.com.au/ats-event/the-main-range-railway-ats-50-year-celebration-series/
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SUMMARY:Subterranean Geographies in Australia
DESCRIPTION:In recent years\, there has been what Squire and Dodds’ (2020) describe as a “subterranean ‘turn’” in geographical scholarship. A critical recognition that geography has tended to have a “surface bias” and that an understanding of how the subterranean worlds (e.g.\, underground infrastructure\, aquifers\, minerals\, cave system\, underground imaginaries\, subterranean cosmologies) are entangled with surface lives and processes. \nOver the past year\, leading geographical journals have launched special issues focused on the “underground” including: Geopolitics (see Squire and Dodds 2020); Emotion\, Space and Society (see Nieuwenhuis and Nassar 2020); Geoforum (see Woon and Dodds\, 2021); and Political Geography (see Marston and Himley\, 2021). In total\, there are 34 articles featured across these special issues – with articles focused on case studies in Africa\, Asia\, Europe\, North America and South America. However\, not a single paper focuses on Australian undergrounds. This is a critical omission. For one\, subterranean space\, its exploitation and use\, is a contemporaneous topic in Australia. For example\, there are mass large-scale underground tunneling occurring across all of Australia’s cities\, which are being funded by billions of dollars in public monies; underground space is important part of Country – materially and spiritually – for Indigenous groups across the continent\, the resource extraction sector has a disproportionate influence on Australian publics and is a key focus on national and economic ‘development’ agendas. Australia is also home to the largest underground aquifer in the world – the Great Artesian Basin – which plays a critical role in various lives and livelihoods (human and the more-than human). There are multiple\, and often conflictive\, undergrounds across Australia and is important to talk about them. \nThere are range of scholars from multiple disciplines doing critical work on underground and underwater in Australia\, The underground has been a significant site of research of physical geography\, for example in the fields of geomorphology\, structural geology\,  hydrology and speleology. It is also the focus of social sciences like Human Geography\, Archaeology\, Anthropology\, Urban Planning and Law. Thus\, as a topic\, it presents a unique opportunity for a multiplicity of disciplines to connect in truly meaningful ways. \nThe purpose of this Symposium is to bring together “underground” and “underwater” geography scholars in Australia together in order to discuss and identify key Australian-related themes for the “subterranean turn” – a “down under subterranean turn” if you will – and to map  future avenues so that this scholarship is more directly contributing to international debates on underground geographies. The Symposium will be structured over two days. \nFind out more.
URL:https://australiantunnellingsociety.com.au/ats-event/subterranean-geographies-in-australia/
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