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With regards to obscuring the engine surly it's the workers who are the subject of the photo and a fine one at that. I assume there must be plenty of photos of engines. Whether it's an occasion or just a group shot maybe someone can help but the 1911 census lists a Thomas Gorry as an engine fireman.

Thomondrow Oh sorry, I just meant that if we could see more of the engine, we could find out more about the location, original date, etc. of the photo...

Vintage.

With the open cab design, this is pre turn of the century. Common design for 1880-90

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I see from the blurb (there is a lot of information there) that this locomotive "was withdrawn from service in 1877 after 22 years of operation, having travelled 155 667 miles (250 468 km)".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/

Maryborough railway station is a heritage-listed railway station at Lennox Street, Maryborough, Fraser Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. It is on the North Coast line serving the city of Maryborough. It was designed by the Chief Engineer of the Queensland Railways Department and built from 1878 to 1890 by John Roddam & John Walker. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992. Maryborough railway station opened in 1878 when an eight-kilometer branch into Maryborough was built as part of the North Coast line. It was built as a terminal station.[5] Beyond the station, the line continued to service the Walkers Limited (now Downer Rail) railway workshops and Mary River wharf. An air raid shelter was built into the station during World War II for the protection of the staff in case an air raid occurred. The station is a single-storeyed, timber-framed building, set at ground level. It is clad in chamferboards and has a gabled corrugated iron roof. The rear roof extends over the original station platform and is supported at its outer edge by unusual tapered stop-chamfered timber posts with octagonal capitals and strut brackets. The main front entrance consists of a projecting gabled portico supported on pairs of timber posts and features a timber arch and gable infill. A central passageway leads through the station to the main platform behind the building. There are skillion-roofed front verandahs, partly enclosed on the southwest side, either side of the portico. These verandahs have stop-chamfered posts and timber strut brackets that match those of the station platform. There is an extension at the southwest end of the station with skillion-roofed structures and a bracketed hood over the front windows. A separate timber-framed ladies waiting room and toilets with a gabled roof adjoin the north-east end of the station building. This has a domestic-scaled post-supported awning linked to the rear station platform. There are new male toilets in the former cloakroom. A World War I railways honor board is located at the rear of the station beside the ticket office. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryborough_railway_station,_Queens...