Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection

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The Photographic Collection We hold tens of thousands of archival photos from the late 19th Century to the present, capturing life in New South Wales in much of its richness and diversity. The original formats of these images vary widely, from glass plates and lantern slides to 35mm negatives, colour transparencies and prints. More images from our photographic collection can be searched for from the Homepage on our website.

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Eveleigh Workshops during the 1917 railway strike

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  • 2 older comments, and then…
  • Bankstown Babyboomer said:
    Is the oval matt attached to the photo or could you possibly scan the complete photo? Cheers!
  • Mich said:
    I think this is a composite photo. The scaling of the men and the trains is wrong.
  • Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection said:
    Bankstown Babyboomer Yes, these photos are in an album and they are attached to the matt.

    AB
  • Bankstown Babyboomer said:
    Thanks, yes, now mich mentions it, this does look like a composite.
  • littleteapot said:
    Looks like a young Russell Crowe third from left.......

Unidentified Street at The Rocks (NSW)

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    I always think of this photo as the Playschool House ! Did we try to find it before? Possibly Redfern?

    No. 433 (see note) - it's a long street.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    GOT IT! (I think) ... ...

    Tentatively, it is 433 Elizabeth Street, Surry Hills, near the Devonshire Street corner.
    Found by the small dome and pinnacle on top of the Railway Workers Institute (or whatever it is called) cnr Devonshire and Chalmers Sts. (see note).

    There is an odd little house at 433 Elizabeth Street still, see GoogleMapsStreetView - www.google.com.au/maps/@-33.8859619,151.2082351,3a,60y,27...

    That's the 'where' - 'why' and 'when' still to find ...
  • mezza52 said:
    There is a school of some type made from weatherboards next door and closer analysis of the clothing will help you identify date..... possibly 1880s
  • Ross Mac said:
    433 KENT ST. There was a Ragged School at 435 in the 1880s. Arthur's Place is on the right between 431.

Derailment on the Zig Zag railway

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  • pellethepoet said:
    Photo by Lithgow Studios

    "RAILWAY ACCIDENT ON THE ZIG-ZAG. [BY TELEGRAPH] SYDNEY, Wednesday.
    An accident, involving some £200 damage, occurred on Thursday evening at the Zig-Zag, near Lithgow, to a goods train from Penrith. The train was descending the top line incline, and when the Westinghouse brakes were applied they refused to act. As a result the engine was impelled forward at terrific speed until it struck the end of the length upon which trains back up to enable them to run on to a different track. Here five feet of solid cut-out rock was encountered, and, having demolished the strong buffer stops, the engine bounded up on to the rock ledge, on the other side of which was a deep chasm. A truck next the engine mounted the tender by the force of the impact, and became a total wreck; the next truck also left the rails, but the remainder of the train kept its position. Beyond shock, the driver and fireman received no injuries. A departmental inquiry completed yesterday afternoon shows that the derailment of the engine was due to the injudicious use of the brake, which resulted in the train getting beyond control." - Barrier Miner, Wednesday 10 April 1901, p. 2.

    A view from the other side shows the engine number to be 246

    Derailment on the Zig Zag at Lithgow (04/04/1901) [SRNSW: 17420_a014_a014000988]
  • Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection said:
    pellethepoet Thanks for adding this article. What a frightening experience for the driver and fireman!

    AB
  • photo and graphics Neale Bayliss said:
    I love this photo, so much I tracked down the exact location & made a composite photo of the old photo & a new photo taken in the same location

    Here it is
    flic.kr/p/DsU3xa
  • Gavin Stevenson said:
    John Bolt, the engine driver, is my GG Grandfather. He sadly died 7 months later.

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