Mt Lyell Mining & Railway Coy in 1896, TAS

摘要

Historical material on Australian industrial railways can often be found in unexpected locations. An excellent new tool is The National Library of New Zealand's newspaper site. Papers Past- now available to researchers online at http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz Part of this site uses Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software which enables the searching of large quantities of full-text data. Good copies of papers I tested were almost 100 percent accurate, diminishing to about 95 percent for poorer copies. So if you don't find what you are seeking, try other words or even different (incorrect) spellings. For example, OCR often confuses i for I so when searching for Maiden Island don't forget to try Maiden Island! Over 600,000 newspaper pages are searchable using OCR. Another half-a-million may be viewed but don't have OCR, so Papers Past contains more than one million pages of digitised New Zealand newspapers and periodicals.