Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Historic Sydney, and we'd love to have all of your old Sydney photos added to the group.

You've put the wrong date in; should be 04/10/1890 (from your photo investigator).

Thanks for pointing that out, opsbooks, I've amended the date above.

Arthur Streeton "The railway station, Redfern" 1893 - www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/work/7209/

And another photo of the same view from the Tyrrell collection -


The old Redfern Station seems to have been a popular subject.

4 October was a SATURDAY in 1890
www.easycalculation.com/date-day/day-of-year.php . And judging by the shadow directions and length, I would guess it was about 5 PM. Saturday evening rush hour!

These girls wouldn't look out of place at ' St Trinian's '

trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/14931657 - SMH, 24th June, 1908...'Hockey for Girls'...brief item which indicates that the Cambridge School first formed a hockey team in 1903...per this item the Cambridge School was the first of the Sydney girls' schools to do so...

'Treago', at Hunters Hill, which the Cambridge School evidently occupied in the years 1904-06

Such an abomination has replaced that time board, the pot plants and moulded chairs are classics aren't they?

By the time this photo was taken the departures board had already outlived it's usefulness and lacked the flexibility required by the timetable as testified by the numerous supplementary metal signs that had to be used. This was mainly due to the decrease in long distance country trains and the vast increase in shorter distance commuter intercity trains.

Albert Alcoceba From memory on the Southern Highlands line the only thing that changed was the clock at the top, the destinations remained unchanged. Might have been different on other lines I suppose.
In any case it was a lovely bit of old world. I'm glad they preserved in in the Powerhouse Museum.

Albert Alcoceba Those metal signs on the floor look like someone isn't coping very well as you say.

Highranger What used to happen is that columns for country and less frequent trains would be "borrowed" for thenumerous North, West and Illawarra Interurbans. Because the columns didn't have the correct destinations on the flip over slats, the supplementary metal signs were hung up on those less frequently used columns.