Lou Rae is a Tasmanian author and historian of the West Coast of Tasmania. His publications have included articles about

Rosebery, Tasmania Rosebery is a town on the West Coast, Tasmania, west coast of Tasmania, Australia. It is at the northern end of the West Coast Range, in the shadow of Mount Black (Tasmania), Mount Black and adjacent to the Pieman River, now Lake Pieman. It lie ...

, the

Emu Bay Railway The Emu Bay Railway was a Tasmania, Australian railway company. The railway was significant during full operation, in that it linked the Tasmanian Government Railways system at Burnie with that at Zeehan that further linked to the Mount Lye ...

Queenstown, Tasmania Queenstown is a historic mining town in the West Coast, Tasmania, West Coast region of the island of Tasmania, Australia. It is in a valley on the western slopes of Mount Owen (Tasmania), Mount Owen on the West Coast Range. At the , Queenstown h ...

and the

Mount Lyell Railway The Mount Lyell railway line was a railway operated by the Mount Lyell Mining & Railway Company between 1899 and 1963. Many name variations were used for identifying the line, the most common being the ''Abt railway''. After closing of the rai ...

otherwise known as the ''Abt Railway'', as well as the Sandfly Colliery Tramway. 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. He also has been a postgraduate student at the

University of Tasmania The University of Tasmania (UTAS) is a public research university, primarily located in Tasmania, Australia. Founded in 1890, it is Australia's fourth oldest university. Christ College (University of Tasmania), Christ College, one of the unive ...

, culminating in his 2005 PhD thesis about the Mount Lyell area. His session at

The Unconformity The Unconformity (formerly the Queenstown Heritage and Arts Festival) is an arts festival held in Queenstown, Tasmania in Australia. Held on the West Coast, the festival is a biennial event. Elements of the festival capture a change in the fate ...

event in Queenstown in October 2016 addresses the issues of sources and historiography of the Western Tasmanian region.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Rae, Lou Living people Australian historians Writers from Tasmania Railway historians Western Tasmania Year of birth missing (living people)