roadwork

Dated 17 September 1929 on lower right of photo.

#10890: Resurfacing of road between tramway and pavement, 1928 #10971: Completed concrete road under traffic, circa 1928

pellethepoet ...and a different White Horse poster. Time flies when you're having fun!

Read All About It !

BOTTLE-NECK REMOVED. NEW SOUTH HEAD-ROAD. Five hundred men of the permanent way staff of the Tramway Department removed the bottle-neck opposite the Stadium at the week-end. Owing to the improvement scheme for New South Head-road by the Main Roads Board, the bottle-neck created by the front of the tramway sheds opposite the Stadium at Rushcutter Bay had to be widened. The front of the building has been put back 20 feet, and. as the tramway lines had to be altered to do this, 500 men worked day and night from Saturday until this morning to complete the work. The board intends to cover over the big drain which runs alongside the tramway depot, thus allowing the footpath, which borders the park, to be continued. A terrace of shops and houses has been removed. About 20 feet have been added to the roadway by the Improvement, which will ease a congestion which was the cause of much heart-burning, especially upon Saturday nights.

trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/28048745 24/6/1929

Now : Street View: www.google.com/maps/place/Parramatta+Rd,+Sydney+NSW/@-33....

GoogleMapsStreetView - goo.gl/maps/VvlnT

The bridge in that Google Street view shot isn't the railway.

Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection The shot shows the original line of the railway. Extract from Wikipedia The original rail line followed what is now Lawrence Hargrave Drive, curving around the southern headland and through Stanwell Park. The station opened on 14 March 1890 at its original site opposite Station Street under the footbridge. To the north the line followed Chellow Dene Avenue to the Otford Tunnel through Bald Hill. A platform was provided on the eastern side on 24 April 1890, and was moved to the western side to make room for a crossing loop which opened on 23 December 1901. Station buildings were added on 4 June 1903 and a signal box on 17 May 1909. A second platform was provided on 13 July 1909, and the footbridge over the station installed on 9 October 1911. To the north a steep grade of 1 in 40 faced up (Sydney bound) trains almost all the way to Otford. This combined with the 1,550-metre (5,090 ft) long Otford Tunnel meant that many trains were divided at Stanwell Park and taken through to Otford or Waterfall in stages. Refuge sidings were provided for up trains at Stanwell Park from 17 December 1912 so that the rear portion of divided trains no longer had to be left on the main line. In 1920 the original single line was replaced with a double track deviation. The deviation avoided the Otford Tunnel and steep grades by tracing around the Stanwell Park amphitheatre at a higher level, and the present station was constructed. The new line featured an eight span, 145-metre (476 ft) long, 42-metre (138 ft) high curved viaduct over Stanwell Creek south of the station which required over three million bricks in its construction.