Lou Rae
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Lou Rae is a Tasmanian author and historian of the West Coast of Tasmania.
His publications have included articles about Rosebery, Tasmania,[1] the Emu Bay Railway[2] Queenstown, Tasmania[3] and the Mount Lyell Railway otherwise known as the Abt Railway,[4] as well as the Sandfly Colliery Tramway.[5]
His publications about railways on the west coast of Tasmania have gone into multiple editions, as well as modifying for the changes in the fate of the railways.[6]
He also has been a postgraduate student at the University of Tasmania, culminating in his 2005 PhD thesis about the Mount Lyell area.[7][8]
His session at The Unconformity event in Queenstown in October 2016 addresses the issues of sources and historiography of the Western Tasmanian region.[9]
