Re: Lack of Railway Magazines in Newsagencies

[Graham Duffin <duffin@dyson.brisnet.org.au>]

Regarding Kim's comment below, I've also found the Transit Centre Newsagency
at Roma Street to have more railway magazines than other newsagencies
around Brisbane.  The 24 hour newsagency on Gympie Rd at Aspley usually
has a good selection as well.

I've been told by one newsagency that there are different levels for
the number and type of magazine a newsagency stocks.  A newsagency can
order outside their level but they usually only do so when there has
been a request from a customer.

The problem with Brisbane is that there is nothing equivalent to the
ARHS Redfern bookshop or Melbourne Railfan Shop.  The Railway Shop
at South Brisbane station has been asked many times to increase the range
of magazines they stock but they haven't.  It would be good if 
someone could set up a Railfan type shop in Brisbane to stock the more
specialised type of rail and other transport publications.

Graham Duffin,
Salisbury, Qld.

Kim Mihaly <kmihaly@launch.net.au> writes:
> The Transit Centre Newsagency at Roma St has a good selection of model
> railway magazines , but the exception of AMRM & MR usualy only 2 or 3
> copies. They get a lot morer prototype stuff, RD, Motive Power, Light
> Railways, Trains and 5 or 6 Pommie ones( a couple of weeklies, +
> Backtrack, and GWR mag)
> 
> Hog heaven compared with the local at Corinda.
> Kim
> 
> Jonathan Lau wrote:
> > 
> > I have noticed in the last several months that rail magazines have
> > disappeared from sale in many newsagencies of late.
> > 
> > I have not seen Railway Digest, AMRM, Motive Power, Model Railroad or
> > even UK's Rail magazines at any newsagencies for sometime. One obscure
> > magazine to be found was "Light Railways" (didn't know it existed!)
> > 
> > I surveyed several newsagencies in the area where I live & at work. 90%
> > don't carry any rail magazines, Local or International at all.
> > 
> > Only the Newslink newsagencies in the Sydney Underground stations had a
> > decent range of railway magazines. ARHS Redfern also has a large
> > selection but it's a bit out of the way.
> > 
> > Is it like this all over the place? I am just concerned that interest in
> > railways will diminish over time if railway publications don't make it
> > out to the general public.
> > 
> > Jon Lau