Images/Photos

[Bulldog Wrestler]

Robertsons Point Lighthouse (constructed 1910), Cremorne, Sydney

 

[Bulldog Wrestler]

Bondi Beach - 1926

 

[Bulldog Wrestler]

October 8, 1955

 

[Bulldog Wrestler]

circa 1914

 

[Trinfly]

Actual photo of Statue of Liberty getting struck by lightning a few days ago..

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Very cool

 

[Trinfly]

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Bondi Beach - 1926

Imagine going to beach in your best wool blend suit and its 35% ... great, i think id rather watch the 2nd half dogs again.

 

[Trinfly]

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circa 1914

How on earth did you get out the way when a train is rumbling towards you @Chris Harding

 

[Chris Harding]

How on earth did you get out the way when a train is rumbling towards you @Chris Harding

They are the "Gangers" (trackworkers) who looked after that section of line. In the old days. The "trikes" were for inspecting the line.

The gangers and signalmen lived at their worksites in homes or tents, with their families. These are their families on an outing.

They controlled the movement of trains, so knew when to occupy the line. The "trikes" were light enough for two people to lift them off the rails if they knew a train was coming.

Although it was not officially allowed- unofficially, the "trikes" were used to take the family into town for shopping, visit other families along the line, and go for picnics, when the men had time off. Later versions were powered by small petrol engines.

Picton Lakes was renamed Couridjah in 1929.

 

[Chris Harding]

Imagine going to beach in your best wool blend suit and its 35% ... great, i think id rather watch the 2nd half dogs again.

This looks like a group of spectators. There must have been a big event at Bondi on this day.

 

[Chris Harding]

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Woronora Cemetery

The only known photo of a train on the Woronora Cemetery line. The line ran from just south of Sutherland station.
Up until the 1970s you could still see where it branched off the Illawarra line.

Before the motor car was a common convenience, people travelled from Sydney to the bigger cemeteries by train. There were timetables services for funeral trains, some of which carried caskets for interment.

Woronora Cemetery line closed in 1947. The larger, 4 station, line into Rookwood closed in 1948.
The Sandgate Cemetery line in Newcastle closed in the 1980s.

There were plans for a line from St. Leonards to Northern Suburbs cemetery in the 1920s, (stage 2 would have seen the line continue to Eastwood), but they were dropped due to the Great Depression.

 

[Chris Harding]

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Outside of Fairfield Railway Station, Sydney - 1922

That building is the oldest railway station building still in existence in NSW.

It dates from 1856, and still stands, although now fenced off, on the eastern side of the station.

 

[Chris Harding]

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Check out the Picnic Train website. They sell USB sticks in the shape of 5917.
Shop | The Picnic Train

 

[Chris Harding]

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Broadmeadow, NSW - April 1969

5917 - Kiama Picnic Train - is in front of the middle water tank.

 

[Chris Harding]

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Liverpool, Sydney

Hume Highway.

 

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Royal Easter Show, Moore Park, Sydney - 1997

I used to work in the ticket gates back in the Moore Park days. It earned me just enough money to take the family on holidays later in the year, after I paid 50% tax for a second job.

 

[Chris Harding]

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South Steyne, Manly - 1973

The last steam ferry in operation.

 

[Chris Harding]

I suspect that this is Newcastle, not Sydney …

This is Newcastle, not Sydney; see …
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You are correct. It is near Civic.

 

[Chris Harding]

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Circular Quay, Sydney - 1932

The large buildings from the Milsons Point bridge construction site are visible under the bridge.

 

[Chris Harding]

This was an oversized shop with no seating just all this wasted space at front of shop well in 80s anyway.

A Railway Refreshment Room. These were common in major stations in the country. There was one at Campsie.
The best example was the RRR at Wynyard - now long gone

 

[Chris Harding]

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Kuttabul and Kareela, Circular Quay, Sydney - circa 1930

These were the K Class ferries, for the Milsons Point run, before the bridge was built. They could carry 2,000 passengers.
Kuttabul was used as a barracks for sailors at Garden island during the war. She was torpedoed by a Japanese mini submarine.