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56 photos and 1 illustration tagged tramway, from 21 members of Flickr Commons.

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• pringlelake
• first
• steam
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• queensland
• electric
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• Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection 14 photos & illustrations
• Cloyne and District Historical Society 6 photos & illustrations
• Powerhouse Museum 5 photos & illustrations
• Stockholm Transport Museum 4 photos & illustrations
• Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons 4 photos & illustrations
• State Library of Queensland 4 photos & illustrations
• State Library of New South Wales 3 photos & illustrations
• National Library of Ireland on The Commons 2 photos & illustrations
• The National Archives UK 2 photos & illustrations
• Musée McCord Stewart Museum 2 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Congress 1 photo / illustration
• Royal Australian Historical Society 1 photo / illustration

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Sydney Station balloon loop

from Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection

• 4 older comments, and then…
• Highranger said:

  Where is the station clock tower?

• beachcomber australia said:

  Highranger It's running late ...

• Highranger said:

  Haha!

• beachcomber australia said:

  Highranger Here's a challenge for you (or anyone else) - what was the photographer standing on in 1908?

• Highranger said:

  beachcomber australia
  The building with the Reschs sign?

Electric tram at Mosmans Bay

from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons

• 4 older comments, and then…
• John Cowper said:

  Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons C-class tramcar - note the side mounted trolley pole. I'm willing to be corrected, but this may indicate that the shot was taken in 1897 or 1898. The C-class entered service in 1896.

• beachcomber australia said:

  John Cowper This site at section 2.5.1 has the Mosman Wharf tramway extended and electrified in 1897 too - www.railpage.org.au/tram/goddmack.html . Also the wikipedia article - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams_in_Sydney#First_period_1886_-... I will see if I can find an exact date via Trove - the date is important because it might help date the entire album, which seems to be October 1897 from this march in George St -

• beachcomber australia said:

  Too easy! Trove gives 19.2.1897, several months before this photo (?) as the "official trial trip" - trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/14089640 . THis article gives amazing full details of the cars ... enough to delight any trainspotter or tramspotter!

• beachcomber australia said:

  The tramway route on an interactive 1900 map - www.nla.gov.au/apps/cdview/?pi=nla.map-rm2358-sd&rgn=... I think this photo is somewhere on Avenue Road - perhaps this bend on GoogleMapsStreetView ? - goo.gl/maps/qByhv

• John Cowper said:

  beachcomber australia Well done, as usual! Appreciate the press article re the test!

I see the train a coming, a coming down the line...

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

• 9 older comments, and then…
• National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

  This shot really caught my fancy with the curved descent to road level and then running beside the road, it is just so Irish, I love it!

• Paddywhack56 said:

  Called a tramway, I believe, when running beside a road. Great shot from the days of the long togs. Keep up the good work.

• derangedlemur said:

  Paddywhack56 Looks like a tram on the map, anyway. maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,601977,809277,7,9

• Sharon Corbet said:

  Streetview, I think. OSI 25" Map showing the level crossing.

• Niall McAuley said:

  Sharon Corbet Hi Sharon, yes, that's the streetview I was going to post!