Black and White photograph of VR No. 42 in original Victorian Railways colour scheme at Elwood depot, probably at the time of the delivery in 1923, or soon after. Note has roof advertising boards, but advertising on them. Compare to side view of No. 28 on page 100 of Destination City 5th Edition. See Destination City 5, page 100.In pencil on rear "RS64"tramways, trams, victorian railways, elwood depot, st kilda brighton tramway, bogie trams, tram 42

Movie Film - 16mm on a black metal reel, 124mm diameter. Title, Carriages Interior Shots – Length 3:01 mins, colour, 16mm colour with sound. ( source not known at this time.) Time Sequence Description 0:00 Interior views of wooden rail carriages, Interior view of an air-conditioned cars including corridors, toilets, compartments, walkways and other materials. Signs, seats, people playing cards on a table. 3:01 end. Placed in a blue cardboard box specially made for the item 30/08/2010.trams, tramways, victorian railways

Movie Film - 16mm on a black metal reel, 91mm dia. Title: Train Carriages Interior Shots – Length 1:20 mins, colour, 16mm Colour with sound. (Reg Item 4110 - source not known at this time.) Time Sequence Description 0:00 Starts with a training running past, view of wooden carriages, C van and then interior shots of train, toilets, washbasin, electrical equipment, water dispenser, signs, seats, walk ways between carriages and light fittings. 1:20 End Placed in a blue cardboard box specially made for the item 30/08/2010. trams, tramways, victorian railways

Demonstrates the use of bogie trams on the Lydiard St North route and the crossing of trams at Seymour St loop.Two sets of three copies of the Victorian Railways aerial photographs of Bungaree Railway station late 1960's early 1970's. Shows tennis court, station buildings, houses and sheds in the station yard. The level crossing does not appear to have any flashing lights installed on it.trams, tramways, bungaree, aerial views, victorian railways

Set of three foolscap size sheets, for BTPS Tour to Mirboo North on 27/9/1973, stapled in top left hand corner. 1. Ticket circular - giving travel arrangements and meeting point at Flinders St. Station. 2. Victorian Railways "S" circular, number S.2515/73 advising of a BTPS excursion from Morwell to Mirboo North on Thursday 27/9/1973 (Showroom Day). Noted that a BW carriage to be attached to the Mirboo North goods at Traralgon at the rear in front of the brake van, pick up passengers at Morwell, the train to Mirboo North would have an altered schedule, passengers would travel to Morwell by the 7.20am passenger ex Melbourne and return by the Gippslander ex Morwell, that passengers would have specially printed tickets and signed by J. C. Crute as Chief Traffic Manager. Issued on 24/9/1974. Printed on foolscap size paper. 3. Tour Notes for the BTPS Tour - details of line history, passenger services, early public timetables at time of opening. Tour organisers R.Gilbert and G.Cargeeg. See Reg Item 4676 for a group photo. Images of document added 27-08-12.btps, tours, morwell - mirboo north, special trains

Victorian Railways "S" circular, number S.162/75, for the additional stop of the 8.30am train from Spencer St to Horsham to set down at Wendouree Station and for the 2.45pm ex Horsham to pick up at Wendouree Station at 5.38pm, on the day of the Opening by of the Tourist Tramway at Lake Wendouree for the BTPS. Signed by M. Ronald as Chief Traffic Manager. Printed on half a quarto sheet. Images of document added 27-08-12.btps, opening, wendouree station, railways

Yields information about Greater Ballarat, including trams, buses, locations and streets. Has a strong association with George Netherway.Five colour map of Ballarat, showing streets, places of interest, Parks, tram routes, bus routes, railway lines, prepared by G. C. Netherway, Greater Ballarat Association, for the Victorian Government Tourist Bureau, Ballarat Branch, c1945. Shows suburbs names, location of orphanage, the lack of development north of Howitt St, in Wendouree. Map is part diagrammatic and is not entirely to scale. On rear is a road map of the Ballarat area, lists of statistics, beauty spots, look outs, art and culture, points of historical interest, industrial products and recreation. Note: Image 1, assembled from four scans, does not entirely match at edges. See Reg item 2074 for photographic image of another version map. See Reg Item 5613 for another version of this map. trams, tramways, ballarat, tram routes, bus routes, map, lists

Black and White photograph mounted onto heavy cardboard, original Victorian Railways Print, of Sturt St, looking east from the Ballarat City Fire Station tower, late 1930's, 1938? Photo has two trams east bound in the photo, along with a few motor vehicles. In the photo are a street side Garage, a bakery, Golden City Hotel, Town Hall, St. Patricks Church and Harry Davies & Co. Drapers and importers. Has title "Sturt Street, Ballarat" printed onto a label and fixed to the print. Victorian Railways Photograph - now held by State Library. Original photo will have copyright provisions. On rear of photograph, notes print ex ARHS, ex carriage 30AV, and in top right hand corner date 1938. On rear of photograph in top right hand corner "1938", central area of photo "725" in pencil, and lower central portion of the photo (in Warren Doubleday hand writing), "From A.R.H.S ex 30 AV".trams, tramways, sturt st, gold city hotel, st patricks, victorian railways

Black and White photograph, copy print of Reg. Item 2741, of Sturt St, looking east from the Ballarat City Fire Station tower, late 1930's, possibly 1938. Photo has two trams east bound in the photo, along with a few motor vehicles. In the photo are a street side Garage, a bakery, Golden City Hotel, Town Hall, St. Patricks Church and Harry Davies & Co. Drapers and importers. Has title "Sturt Street, Ballarat". Victorian Railways Photograph - now held by State Library. Original photo will have copyright provisions. Print made by John Phillips c1998 from negative of Reg. Item 2741 on Kodak paper.tramways, trams, sturt st, golden city hotel, st patricks

Includes photos of VR St Kilda - Elwood trams, Sandringham and Black Rock to Beaumaris horse tramway/ For details of each photograph and layouts see Media files for: Wal Jack VR Album listing.pdf Has a strong association with Wal Jack and tramway developments within Australasia until 1964 and given their extent particular significance. Features Victorian Railway TramcarsBlack "Riven" Spring back folder with brown insert folder containing 37 grey coloured foolscap sheets, of card on which photos have been mounted using photo corners so various types, captions in black or blue ink. Has some 72 black and white photographs.. trams, tramways, victorian railways, tramcars, melbourne, horse trams, st kilda, sandringham, wal jack

Yields information about the process of preparing lists Ballarat tramcar mileage records and their use in previous locations. Demonstrates the way the Victorian Railway Institute advertised for members.List of three Ballarat Tramcars mileages (19, 25 and 37) mileages in Ballarat, Melbourne and Geelong written on the back of an advert for the Victorian Railways Institute seeking membership on the basis of discounts received at shops, uses a 10% discount on a suit against the cost of a VRI Discount card - titled "Simple Mathematics" Item was contained within Reg Item 5507 - Foolscap binder with green covers, black binding edge and metal clips - see btm5507-list.pdf for actual location.tramways, trams, vri, mileage, 19, 25, 37

Sign - enamelled on a metal plate with screw holes in each corner - white letters on black background - fitted to a Victorian Railways Tramcar - regarding having exact fare ready, not standing in gangway, alighting and do not leave or join on the wrong side. Advised by Tony Smith of MTPS 5/8/2016 a sign from a VR tramcar. Has a number of them. String through top two corners was fitted to the donated item.trams, tramways, signs, passengers, vr, victorian railways, fares, conductors

Calendar 1975 - 28 pages - black and white photos except for the front cover. Produced by the Sydney Tramway Museum. Features photographs of various Australasian Tramway Systems: Ballarat 34 and Adelaide 111 at the St Kilda Tramway Museum Dunedin 61 Ballarat 37 at the City terminus Bulimba Power Station electric locomotive Newcastle 383 Darling St Balmain Perth Trolley Bus 21 Perth 55 Melbourne Tait train Launceston 26 Sydney Suburban train Adelaide 365 Brisbane 293 VR 28 Geelong 14 - at Eastern Park Sydney tramway museum tramways, trams, ballarat, adelaide, newcastle, sydney, dunedin tramways, brisbane, perth, trolley buses, melbourne, launceston, victorian railways, geelong, tram 14, tram 37, tram 34

Yields information about Railway Level crossing in Lydiard St North and some of the trains that used it.Set of six 35mm slides - Hanimex light grey white plastic mounts or AGFA dark blue / white plastic mounts of trams and trains crossing the level crossing at Lydiard St North Ballarat. .1 - tram 33 with destination of Lydiard St North, just after crossing the rail tracks - has a Twin Lakes sign with Victoria House in the background. .2 - tram 40 with destination of Lydiard St North, waiting at the level crossing with S303 entering the station. .3 - ditto, but with S304 in the photograph under the signal gantry. .4 - tram 17 crossing the crossing with the signal box and Victoria House in the background. .5 - ditto - tram has a Twin Lakes signs and a "Make Bliss No Love" roof advert for Bliss Bombs. .6 - ditto - with the S. F. Motors Pty Ltd Mercedes Benz dealership in the background.tramways, trams, railway station, lydiard st north, level crossings, victorian railways, tram 33, tram 40, tram 17

Yields information about the Ballarat Railway Station and the adjacent level crossing.Set of two 35mm slides - Hanimex light blue grey plastic mount of a the view from No. 1 platform at Ballarat Railway Station looking towards the Lydiard St level crossing. Shows the crossing gates, signals and tracks. A goods train with a Z van at the rear is in the platform.tramways, trams, railway station, victorian railways

Set of 15 copy negatives, of black and white photographs of Victorian Railway trams from Ray Pearson Collection, taken by Dave Macartney in 1975c. Original negative held in the negative file. Scanned at 2400 dpi and cropped as necessary. Images as shown replaced by scan from the original Ray Pearson Album provided by Mal Rowe, April 2020 or that there is a better image. .1 - No. 1 - retained. .2 - Cr. T. Bent driving 1st spike - replaced .3 - Works car at Elwood - replaced .4 - No. 23 at Sandringham - replaced .5 - No. 35 at St Kilda - replaced .6 - ditto - replaced .7 - No. 51 at Sandringham - retained. .8 - St Kilda station view - retained. .9 - No. 3 cross bench car at Elwood - replaced .10 - No. 7 end view - replaced .11 - No. 5 at St Kilda Station - replaced .12 - No. 6 cross bench car side on view - replaced .13 - Cr. T. Bent driving 1st spike - replaced .14 - No. 7 - retained. .15 - Enclosed cross bench car at Sandringham - retained. trams, tramways, victorian railways, st kilda, sandringham

Newspaper clipping from The Courier, 5-6-1953 titled "New Move to Retain Buninyong Line", about a letter from Minister of Transport that the Victorian Railways were not prepared to maintain the bridges on the line that was closed in 1947, despite representations from the Shire of Buninyong. The Shire was asking for assistance from other Councils and Members of Parliament. Item was contained within the back cover of Reg Item 5485 - Service Exercise Book, black covers, with label, red binding titled "No. 2 - Ballarat Tramways & S.E.C. Systems" - see list. buninyong railway

Contains notes on the following tram systems. Brisbane - includes notes on photographs Rockhampton steam Sydney Tram Depots NSW Tramways tramcars - notes on each class and work vehicles Birmingham including two cuttings about the closure of Birmingham dated 31-3-1939 London Passenger Transport Board - one page Bristol - closure and damage. Sheffield History of the Tramcar Victorian Railways - St Kilda Brighton Electric Street Railway Sandringham to Black Rock MMTB Cable trams and opening dates Opening dates for the tramway routes in Melbourne to 1921 News Paper cuttings on Doncaster Newspaper cutting - cable trams "Cable Trams.....clang into history" by Hugh Murphy History and Development to 1943 - Brisbane Trams by G. R. Steel (half page only) Perth Tramways Adelaide Municipal Tramways Trust notes South Africa Trams Wellington Corporation Tramways (NZ) Tramways in Soviet Russia World's Largest Tram Systems - July 1938Demonstrates the work of Wal Jack in recording tramway information.Service Exercise Book, black covers, with label, red binding titled "W. Jack Tramways No. 1" lined pages, four sections each of 10 sheets, (80 pages), stitched bound. trams, tramways, tramways, sydney, brisbane, vr, melbourne, cable trams

Photocopy of photo, laminated. Image shows Colin Holl, former driver with Victorian Railways. Retired D3 locomotive parked behind on tracks. Written on back of image; Colin Holl, a former driver with Victorian Railways, Colin will speak at the 'Making Tracks' exhibition. Photo taken beside a retired d3 locomotive near the locomotive shed of the Bendigo Railway Yard.railways, bendigo to melbourne, colin holl former driver

Food related material of Merle Bush. Booklet (x2) ''Food - Feeding the Child for Health'' (approved by the director of Infant Welfare, Public health Dept.; 54 pages, 1937; b. ''Venereal Diseases - Information relating to Venereal Diseases and Duties of patients'' ; Public Health Dept, Victoria (no date); c. ''Are You Interested in Food?'' by the Victorian Railways' Dietician, 1936; d. ''The Feeding of Children'' pamphlet by the Public Health Dept., Victoria 1927government, state, department of public health

Brass & enamel badge for Victorian Railways Union, white enamelled centre with gold letters VRU surrounded by a dark blue ring with wording Victorian Railways Union, numbered on back 5408.Broo?an & Kingorganisation, union, transport

The photo shows Geelong No. 2 in Moorabool St at the intersection with Ryrie St. The tram has the destination of North. The tram is in its modified form that provides for one-man operation. In the photo are Edments, Savoia Cafe, Commercial Bank of Australia, and the T&G building. The photo has been dated between 1935 when the tram was converted and 1939 when the bar neon traffic lights were installed at the intersection. The photograph was taken from a Victorian Railways glass negative held at the State Library of Victoria. See item 8360 for a digital copy of the SLV scan - http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/97173Yields information about Geelong No.2 and the intersection of Ryrie and Moorabool Streets Geelong.Black and white photograph with a number of rear.In pencil "2171" on rear.tramways, trams, geelong, ryrie st, moorabool st, temperance & general, tram 2

Roy J Mitchell was born in Williamstown in 1935 and grew up in Ballarat. He was the son of Horace Mitchell, a railway man, and Catherine Donovan whose father James Donovan was himself a railway man. Roy worked for the Victorian Railways also, until this era finished and worked into the MET era. Roy never lived in Bendigo but visited often, many times taking his daughter Rebekah with him, drawn in by the historical trams. His passions in life were his family, dogs, trains and trams and photography. His cousin Frank O'Meara, said "Roy always had his camera with him. He Took it everywhere". Roy's ancestors came from Maldon, Mt Edgerton, Trentham, Ballarat, Creswick, Berringa and Geelong.Eleven Coloured slides of Bendigo Trams and Trains taken by Roy J Mitchell. history, bendigo, bendigo trams, roy j mitchell, bendigo r766 steam engine

G. Harper was a saddler and harness maker located at Bath Corner, Charring Cross. He advertised in The Bendigo Advertiser in 1892A brown suitcase with two metal clasps which could be locked. There are two travel stickers, ones a Victorian railways luggage Melbourne Albury which is partly missing, the other is The CHALET MT BUFFALO Nation Park. On the inside of the lid there are two labels one is black with gold letters G. HARPER NEW BAG SHOP Leather Goods & Ladies' Hand Bags Travelling Bags & Trunks Saddler & Harness Maker Charing Cross BENDIGO The other is light blue with black writing, QUALITY Guaranteed M.B. Fibre CASE.182 underlined made in bendigo, suitcase, g. harper saddler and harness maker

Vistorian Railway photograph of Sandhurst (Bendigo) Railway Station and workshops buildingsVictorian Railways

Bendigo Victorian Railways Date Stamp from Telegraph Office