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Looks like he's on his mobile phone.View attachment 37565
Paddle steamer, General Gordon, Hawkesbury River
Looks like he's on his mobile phone.View attachment 37565
Paddle steamer, General Gordon, Hawkesbury River
30 Class tank. Originally for suburban trains in Sydney. Still used on the Camden and Richmond lines into the 60s and 70s.View attachment 37567
Hornsby Railway Goods Yard - circa 1958
A round top "Pig". 36 Class. They were reboilered with Belpaire, square top boilers, from the 1950s.View attachment 37566
Hornsby Railway Station
C and D Class "high steppers" for express passenger trains. They needed the second locomotive for the grade on the Cowan Bank.View attachment 37564
Opening of the first Hawkesbury River Railway Bridge - May 1, 1889
Lever operators had to use a cloth over the lever handles to keep them clean.View attachment 37561
Hornsby Signal Box - 1910
Six 38 Class - three on each track. All five streamlined locos, and one non streamlined. The first Aboriginal driver on the system was driving one of these.
The old tunnel is still next to the new one, on the Brooklyn side of the river. It's used for equipment storage.View attachment 37558
Tunneling for the second Hawkesbury River Railway Bridge - December 17, 1940
Definitely WWI - that's a troop train.View attachment 37554
Hornsby Railway Station - circa WWI
Have close look at the train on the right. You can see the standard end platform car, and the rest are the same cars already converted for electric train operation. Note how they are wider than the end platform car, to match the wider electric trains .View attachment 37552
Hornsby Railway Station - circa 1930
35 Class "Nanny". Electrification only extended to Hornsby at this stage,View attachment 37550
Hornsby Railway Station - 1956
The "Bulldogs" livery from the Shirley era.View attachment 37549
Asquith Railway Station - 1982