railwayworkers

My hometown station! Looks completely different nowadays, of course. The siding to the right is long since lifted, the semaphores long gone and the platform has been extended. flic.kr/p/7stsbk This is the only shot in my stream of the station now, the NLI shot appears to have been taken at the far end of the now westbound platform. In those days this was the only one as far as I know).

Beautiful scene

The train cannot enter a single-track section without a token. The fireman puts his arm through the hoop while on the move, or simply swaps it with the signalman. Interlocking machinery in signal boxes ensures that only one token at a time is released. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Token_%28railway_signalling%29

John_McK1966 That's a brilliant photo! And thanks for letting us know the changes in your hometown station...

blackpoolbeach Phew! Thanks for saving me the embarrassment of an incomprehensible Staff Exchange description...

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called australian steam locomotives, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

my father worked in places like this in 1920's salute a tutti.Nick D.P.

The clock on the station says 3.55pm, but there are no passengers to be seen, just railway staff staring at the camera, and enough locomotives to delight any trainspotter. Very odd! The original second station (on the left) was a very handsome neo-classical temple.

Locomotive No.1 (centre of photo) is now in the Powerhouse Museum. Full details and heaps of photos: www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/?irn=19352 I see from the blurb (there is a lot of information there) that this locomotive "was withdrawn from service in 1877 after 22 years of operation, having travelled 155 667 miles (250 468 km)". Which suggests that this photo is earlier than 1877 (No.1 looks in great condition here), much earlier than most of the Tyrrell Collection. I hope the experts at the Powerhouse Museum know about this photo!

Locomotive No.7 in 1865 (!) with similar carriages: www.flickr.com/photos/state-records-nsw/2798269301/

The link captioned, "Find out more about this image", is malformed for this photograph. Several photographs in the James Ring’s West Coast Set have similarly malformed links. As there are more than a half-dozen I have not made individual comments on each.

Thanks Pixel Wrangler - I'll comb through the set & fix those up now. -- Courtney