Images/Photos

[PhilipCohen]

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Elizabeth Street, Sydney - 1900

Elizabeth Street was not widened until 1909, so the date must be later than that; more like circa 1911; see …

Horse team transporting bales of wool along Elizabeth Street in Sydney, 1911 [picture].

nla.gov.au

 

[PhilipCohen]

So, you started a new fake profile today, for this purpose? Wow, welcome to the ignore list in record time.

Touchy are we? Sorry to hear you have an aversion to facts—regardless, it's still Wexford Street …

Print - Wexford Street resumptions, Surry Hills, circa 1908

Date: Between 1st January 1908 and 31st December 1908 | Series: Demolition Books - Albums and Prints | Unique ID: A-00039162 | Format: Photograph - Print | Read the full record details for Photograph: Print - Wexford Street resumptions, Surry Hills, circa 1908

archives.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au

 

[Ribo Flavin]

 

[Chris Harding]

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Bennelong Point, Sydney - 1950s

The old Fort Macquarie tram depot.

 

[Chris Harding]

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One of the "Big Engines". The 57 Class were brutes, and excelled on the Blue Mountains and Main South lines.
Mechanical stokers made life easy for firemen, relieving them from the shovel. They had three cylinders and a 1-2-3 beat.

5711 has been housed at Valley Heights. It will be restored to exhibition status, but not operating condition. Too heavy and too hungry and thirsty to be a viable working exhibit.

As massive and powerful as they were, they couldn't match the electric locos that replaced them, or modern diesels for that matter.

 

[PhilipCohen]

The date is pre 1916 (no underground portal at view); likely 1915 …

 

[Chris Harding]

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Royal Easter Show, Sydney - 1953

Around the time I started going as a child.
Decades later, I was working at the gates, selling entry tickets to earn a few more dollars every Easter. The money was used for our annual holidays to Forster.

 

[Chris Harding]

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That might be the car ferry Koondaloo in the foreground.

 

[Chris Harding]

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Chullora - 1969

The maintenance depot for Sydney's bus fleet.

 

[Chris Harding]

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Punchbowl - 1979

They used a remote controlled "tug" to pull trains through the wash plant in later years.

 

[Chris Harding]

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A wagon from the old Newnes shale mines, by the look of it.

 

[Chris Harding]

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1870s

Second Sydney station. That is Devonshire Street going from right to left in the picture. Out of frame, to the right, is the Mortuary Station, which is the only building from that era that still exists.

The current Sydney Terminal will be built on the parkland in front of the old station. This station will be demolished, and Devonshire street turned into an underground pedestrian walkway.

The old exhibition building is in the background.

 

[Chris Harding]

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Maroubra Junction, Sydney - 1950s

I actually rode these trams to Maroubra when visiting my grandparents.

 

[Chris Harding]

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Central Railway Station, Sydney - 1985

Not sure what the story is here. That is not a standard arrangement, with a trailer car on the lead, and the pantographs down.

 

[Chris Harding]

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USS Portland (CA-33) at Cockatoo Island (Sutherland dry dock) - late 1942

My late father in law worked at Cockatoo at this time.

 

[Chris Harding]

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Phillip & Bridge Street, Sydney - 1897

Love the steam tram.

 

[Chris Harding]

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Redfern, and a converted "Bradfield" suburban car. These were the first power cars built for Sydney's electric trains. They were hauled by steam locos until the overhead wiring was installed.

 

[Chris Harding]

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"Bulldogs"

 

[Chris Harding]

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5369 & 5917, Hanbury Junction, NSW - 1972

No airbrakes on the train hauled by 5369. These are private operator coal hoppers. You had to manually set the brakes on the wagons when going downhill.

 

[Chris Harding]

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Staff at Junee Railway Station, NSW - 101

These are the bosses. They have bowler hats.