Images/Photos

[Heckler]

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Miss those rattlers. That smell, the noise, the nostalgia.

 

[ThePedigree]

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Used to bomb red rattlers back in the 90s. 3.30 Central to Ashfield station. Fk now I’m an old man.

 

[Chris Harding]

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Campbell Parade, Bondi - 1959

A coupled set of P Class cars. All the older trams could be coupled into pairs. The newer corridor cars couldn't - because they didn't have the platforms along the outside for the conductors to jump from car to car.

 

[Chris Harding]

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A Mortdale set. The cream lining above and below the windows was a nice feature of the old steel, and timber cars.

These were the widest suburban trains in the world when they were built. All platforms had to be cut back to fit them. The newer Milleniums and Waratahs are narrower, which is why there are gaps between them and the platforms at some stations.

 

[Chris Harding]

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Tram terminus at Narrabeen - circa 1916

Not the overhead is the same as railway catenary, not tramway wiring. The intention was to upgrade the line to US Interurban style trains - but it never happened. Similar overhead was used experimentally between Hurlstone Park and Summer Hill.

 

[Bulldog Wrestler]

Pitt Street, Sydney - 1950

 

[Bulldog Wrestler]

GPO, Sydney - circa 1900

 

[SPEARTAKVIDREFS]

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I dont know what it was about those filthy things but I loved them. Stand next to an open door with a longneck summer day on the way home from work. Good times.

 

[The DoggFather]

Miss those rattlers. That smell, the noise, the nostalgia.

Love the smell of train brakes.

 

[Bulldog Wrestler]

Removing the tram tracks - George Street, Sydney - 1960

 

[Bulldog Wrestler]

Circular Quay, Sydney - circa 1901

 

[Caveman]

I don't know where this photo is from buy I used to have it framed and on my wall when I was a young fella, I would sit and stare at it for ages.

 

[Bulldog Wrestler]

I don't know where this photo is from buy I used to have it framed and on my wall when I was a young fella, I would sit and stare at it for ages.

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New York, 1932 I think

 

[Caveman]

New York, 1932 I think

That's awsome, it's still memorising even now when I look at it.

 

[Chris Harding]

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Circular Quay, Sydney - circa 1901

C and D Class trams. The first of Sydney's electric trams.

 

[Chris Harding]

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Removing the tram tracks - George Street, Sydney - 1960

Then they went and put them back.

There are tram tracks still hidden under roads around Sydney.

 

[Bulldog Wrestler]

 

[Bulldog Wrestler]

Kogarah Railway Station - 1905

 

[Grunthos]

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Manly ferry Burra Bra requisitioned by the Royal Australian Navy, during WWII, and commissioned as HMAS Burra Bra.

More info here : )

HMAS Burra Bra - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Grunthos]

I don't know where this photo is from buy I used to have it framed and on my wall when I was a young fella, I would sit and stare at it for ages.

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In the days befor OH&S
Its New York with central park in the background : )