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Lucan steam train

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 19 older comments, and then…
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Those open-sided carriages were known in Sydney as "toast racks" - same in Ireland ?
  • Niall McAuley said:
    The GeoHive OSI 25" labels this the Dublin and Lucan Electric Railway. In Wikipedia, it says the steam tram ran from 1880 to 1897, and then electrically until 1925.
  • O Mac said:
    Niall McAuley From where this was taken the OSI shows the tracks on this side of the road?
  • Niall McAuley said:
    I could be persuaded that I see this bank building from 1890.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    O Mac Maybe they moved the tracks on electrification?

King and Elizabeth Street corner from Sydney, 1890 / photographed by Arthur K. Syer

from State Library of New South Wales

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  • David Wayne Bailey said:
    Very cool.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    The 6th October was a Monday in 1879, 1884, and 1890 (see note) using www.easycalculation.com/date-day/day-of-year.php . I checked Trove for Canterbury Park Races for 1879 - no useful result 1884 - the races happened in September that year 1890 - BINGO! races were "continued" on Monday 6/10/1890 - SMH p.3 - trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/13794285 So, surprisingly, this is Sept/Oct 1890.
  • BobMeade said:
    Good work beachcomberaustralia!
  • State Library of New South Wales said:
    Excellent work, beachcomber!
  • pellethepoet said:
    Brilliant! The races do it again - www.flickr.com/photos/state-records-nsw/5215291939/

Redfern Railway Station

from Powerhouse Museum

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  • Leonard J Matthews said:
    eXceptional old photograph .... thankyou for sharing
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Arthur Streeton's "The Railway Station, Redfern" 1893 [AGNSW] collection.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/results.do?id...
  • beachcomber australia said:
    The large barrel-vaulted building at top left is the Exhibition building in Prince Alfred Park. Built in 1870, demolished in 1954. nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an6016314 www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/waterexhibition/images/zoom/a...
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Here's another interesting thing: the white telegraph poles are very noticeable in this photo and in Streeton's 1893 painting (see above). Evidently it is possible to date old photos in Sydney from the type of pole. Technology was changing so rapidly between 1880 and 1920, that every few years a type of pole was replaced. "The backbone of the public telegraph network was a route in George Street from the telegraph office [GPO George Street] to Redfern Station and a shared route along the railway line to Parramatta. By 1880 there were about 10 wires along George Street. This pole route appears from the General Post Office c.1890 on Arthur Streeton's 1893 painting of Redfern Station." And on this photo. I would dearly like to say that they are contemporary, but it is raining in the painting and sunny in this photo. More telephone pole info: www.telephonecollecting.org/lightpoles.htm btw there is an excellent explanation of where this station was on the PH site Persistent URL above. It is not the current Redfern Station, or Central Station. I was very confused until I read it, and always wondered why Arthur Streeton would have bothered to paint a picture of a suburban station in the rain.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Another view from the State Records NSW photostream dated 04/10/1890 - www.flickr.com/photos/state-records-nsw/2654873676/ Old Redfern Station was a popular subject.