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The carriage which they are standing in front of is CT681, formerly the 1884 built AB class state car.

Comment from reader T. Edmonds: The kitchen staff are posed with car 681, the kitchen car from the Commissioner’s Train (see pic 15309_a015_000012). This indicates the kitchen car was being used for meal preparation for the loyalists.

Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection He looks rightfully proud of his creation!

He looks proud as punch.

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/61271636@N05]] ... and so he should be!

Photoshop out the bridge and add Lárc de triumph and he could have been liberating Paris? Add some train tracks too of course...

Highranger Sounds like a good Sunday afternoon editing project ;-D AB

A little hard to work out what is happening here, however those stepped vented windows on the right look familiar and I think that is a stair at the south end of one of the current platforms that still exists.That would mean the works in the foreground are new, and the old station is in the background. I would say this is what covered the old Devonshire Street, the pedestrian tunnel now below this area. The building with the tram was parrallel (east-west) and fronting what was Devonshire Street, and the new (current) Central Station was way off the the right of the new tracks.

Now www.flickr.com/photos/highranger/9194485455/

Note a similar stairway down to the pedestrian tunnel at far left in this photo. www.flickr.com/photos/state-records-nsw/5599227004/in/gal...