coalfired

4 photos tagged coalfired, from 4 members of Flickr Commons.

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1900

2012

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Kevin Eadie said:
What a magnificent photo - full of history - the Rozelle railway yards, with 17 + 2 sidings! - the truss bridges for the Darling Harbour Goods Railway over Whites Creek, but the more familiar trusses over Johnston St. / The Crescent apparently not yet built - White Bay Hotel - White Bay Power Station, with tapered smokestacks, much shorter than the current ones - a toastrack tram heading north on Victoria Road near Maney St. - the Callan Park tower - the Catherine Street and Balmain Road bridges over the Darling Harbour Goods Line - a railway roundhouse! - but most puzzling, the ornate stone wall and decorative gatehouse at extreme left; wonder what that's all about?
colinbm said:
Kevin Eadie The Abattoirs

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Niall McAuley said:
Gas lighting was not new in 1900, electricity was already replacing it.
Niall McAuley said:
The innovation here is a machine which stokes the boiler instead of having men with shovels do it.
Fred Dean Snr. said:
Belfast Gasworks was built on Ormeau Road, between 1887 and 1893. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtjBjgHkAAM
DannyM8 said:
Robots taking jobs in 1900 - the headlines do not change!!
Niall McAuley said:
Wikipedia article on the Mechanical Stoker

stick1949 said:
That is not a tug, its the Shields Ferry "South Shields" coal fired steam recip which was in service from 1911 -1968. Ellerman Lines "City of Wellington" in the background is in Brigham & Cowans drydock.