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Wow, no booth to sit in on a rainy day?

Booths were added soon after when the collectors complained of exposure to the weather

I wonder if the light flashed when you didn't pay :)

What year?

Booths were in place by late 1932. As the Bridge only opened in March 1932, and white lane lines went in around June (guess why!!!), this picture is some time between March and June 1932. By the westerly afternoon shadow lines, the sun still fairly high in the afternoon, I would say not long after the Bridge opening in March. They can't be the very first cars at the toll bar because there is already a fair bit of oil on the road from stopped cars.

This is great! The bridge looks so close to this today, makes me miss living in Sydney.

Except the trains have been shunted off the side because of how many cars there are.

I love exploring our history, I recently assisted my daughter with a project on the building of the Sydney Harb Bridge and whilst I didn't have access at the time to this site I had the pleasure of locating various photo's which I saved and reprinted via a USB and a Store, my daughter intends keeping her "A" mark for this assignment, the pics make it so realistic as though you were there taking pics

Its interesting that there appears to be train lines on both sides of the bridge where these days the line is only one side.

Great stuff State Library. There were trains on that side (as they still are today) and I think trams ran on the opposite side where cars now drive.