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Buninyong & District Historical Society
Photograph - Original Photograph, Ann Beggs-Sunter, Lal Lal Railway Station, steamrail excursion stop, Oct. 1989, November 1995
... transport Lal Lal Station Ballarat Geelong Railway Steam train ...historic transportColour photo, Lal Lal Railway Station, steamrail excursion stop with steam train, Oct. 1989lal lal station, ballarat geelong railway, steam train -
Puffing Billy Railway
Notice Board - Victorian Railways Institute
Victorian Railways Institute - The VRI was formed in 1909, and started operations at the 3rd Floor, Flinders Street Station, on 31 January, 1910. The Commissioners of the day saw a need for a Social Organisation, where Railway Staff could come together and discuss common issues, and relax in a friendly environment. The VRI was also, for many decades, the Primary Educator of all Rail Staff in their Duties and Tickets, from Train Crews, Station staff and the like, through to the Accounting Office team, everyone was trained at the VRI on how to do their jobs in the VRI. At the height of its power, the VRI would lead a member base of 30,000+ Families, all who would have a dedication to the Rail Industry and VRI. Throughout the State, Centres started, the earliest in 1916 in Ballarat, through to the later ones in Sunshine (1962) and beyond.Historic - Victorian Railways Institute Notice BoardV.R Institute Notice Board made of painted timberV.R Institutepuffing billy, victorian railways institute, notice board -
Puffing Billy Railway
Machine - Conveyor / Loader, Munro Engineers Pty Ltd, 1955
Munro Engineers Pty Ltd, Handilift Stacker & Loader' The Land on which the Menzies Creek railway station and Museum are built on was once apart of James Hermon's & his son William Hermon's property on which this Munro Handilift Stacker & Loader was used. Historic -Industrial Tool - Handilift Stacker & Loader - used on Jame's Hermon's property on which the Menzies Creek Railway is built on Munro Engineers Pty Ltd, Handilift Stacker & Loader made of steel and wood and wrought ironMunro Engineers Pty ( symbol map of Australia ) Ltd, Ballarat Vic. On side - No. 3147 On wheel - no, 2052puffing billy, munro engineers, handilift stacker & loader, hermon, menzies creek -
Puffing Billy Railway
Greenbat Battery Loco, Greenwood & Batley ltd
Greenbat Battery Loco Built by Greenwood & Batley Ltd Builders No. 420363/2 This Greenbat Battery Loco has been loaned to the Museum by the Walhalla Goldfields Railway, who had acquired it in 2013 along with a large quantity of narrow gauge trollies and light rail from Orica’s now closed munitions factory in Melbourne’s western suburbs. The trolley on display was one of two in use from the 1970s. Orica - Deer Park Munitions factory Orica Deer Park in Melbourne’s west has been used since circa 1875 for various forms of manufacturing and storage of chemicals. Although the site is bounded by Ballarat Road, Station Street, Tilburn Road and the Western Ring Road, the current entry point for industrial operations is situated at Gate 6 off Tilburn Road. Operations include: • a specialty chemicals facility producing products for mining services operations • quarry services • other chemical manufacture activities. The Deer Park factory complex is of historical significance as the location of the first plant for the manufacture of high explosives in Australia and has been, for its entire history, the most important, if not only, commercial manufacturer of high explosives in Australia. It commenced operation under the importer Jones Scott and Co, and then the Australian Lithofracteur Company (Krebs Patent), a rival to Nobel's dynamite patent. The factory was producing nitro-glycerine based explosives in Australia only a couple of years after Nobel's Ardeer factory began operating in Scotland. The explosives factories complex is of historical significance for the association with the Australian Lithofracteur Company, Australian Explosives and Chemicals, the Nobel company and later ICIANZ, which grew to become one of the largest explosives, chemical and plastics manufacturers in Australia. It was the pioneer of the industry and retained its dominance through monopolistic practices, taking over most of its competitors in the Australasian region. Substantial parts of the pre-Second World War layout of the site remain which, with a number of significant buildings dating back to the 1920s and '30s, indicate past and present processes of manufacturing, the necessary safety measures required and the integrated nature of the explosives and chemical industry. The narrow gauge tramway, which ran through the explosives section, was a rare survivor of nineteenth century materials-handling methods into the 21st Century. Greenwood & Batley were a large engineering manufacturer with a wide range of products, including armaments, electrical engineering, and printing and milling machinery. They also produced a range of battery-electric railway locomotives under the brand name Greenbat. The works was in Armley, Leeds, UK. Greenbat was the trade name for the railway locomotives built by Greenwood & Batley. The company specialised in electric locomotives, particularly battery-powered types for use in mines and other hazardous environments. Historic - Industrial Narrow Gauge Railway - Battery Locomotive - Orica - Deer Park Munitions factory - Deep park, Victoria, Australia Battery Locomotive - made of iron puffing billy, greenbat battery loco, battery locomotive, industrial narrow gauge railway, orica - deer park munitions factory -
Puffing Billy Railway
Explosives Wagon, unkown
This 2 foot 6 inch (762mm) gauge wagon was used for carrying explosives and was used with the Greenbat Battery loco. It was donated to the Walhalla Goldfields Railway on long term loan in 2013 along with a large quantity of narrow gauge trollies and light rail from Orica’s now closed munitions factory in Melbourne’s western suburbs. Orica - Deer Park Munitions factory Orica Deer Park in Melbourne’s west has been used since circa 1875 for various forms of manufacturing and storage of chemicals. Although the site is bounded by Ballarat Road, Station Street, Tilburn Road and the Western Ring Road, the current entry point for industrial operations is situated at Gate 6 of Tilburn Road. Operations include: • a specialty chemicals facility producing products for mining services operations • quarry services • other chemical manufacture activities. The Deer Park factory complex The factory complex is of historical significance for the major role it played in Australia's manufacturing and mining industries through the development of progressively more efficient and safer explosives. It also contributed to wartime production in ammunition, initiators and the development of synthetic ammonia production and construction of the Defence Explosives Annexe No 5 (later the Albion Explosives Factory) during World War Two. The factory complex is also of technical significance for the unusual and specialised design of many of the buildings and structures, both in the layout of the works and the individual design of buildings. Blast protection and safety measures such as mounds around the buildings, 'cleanways' and buffer zones between production areas were employed extensively. A characteristic of many production buildings was the elimination of cavities where explosive compounds could lodge. The combination of concrete barriers and light-weight construction was designed to direct explosion debris away from operators or other buildings. The narrow gauge tramway, which ran through the explosives section, is a rare survivor of nineteenth century materials-handling methods. Historic - Industrial Narrow Gauge Railway - Wagon for carrying Explosives at the Orica - Deer Park Munitions factory, Deer park, Victoria, Australia Wagon for carrying explosives made from Timber and steelwagon for carrying explosives, puffing billy, industrial narrow gauge railway, orica - deer park munitions factory, explosives wagon -
Sunshine and District Historical Society Incorporated
Photographs (1928), 'QUARTER MILE' BRIDGE Construction, 1928
One man lost his life during the building of this bridge. The bridge was constructed by the Victorian Railways between 1927 to 1929 to carry a new double track goods line. This enabled trains from all parts of the state except Gippsland to have direct access to the Tottenham marshalling and sorting yards. These yards were constructed in the 1920's to relieve congestion in the Melbourne Yard near Spencer Street station. The congestion was being caused by the construction of suburban passenger platforms associated with the electrification of the suburban railway network. Initially the bridge was for goods trains but during the Second World War it was also used by troop trains. When the standard gauge line was built in 1962 all trains to Albury and Sydney have used this route, thus avoiding travelling through Essendon and Pascoe Vale on the suburban tracks. The standard gauge track across the bridge took the place of one of the broad gauge tracks so broad gauge trains crossing the bridge in either direction have to now use the same track. The bridge is 1,257 feet (383.13 metres) long and 180 feet (54.86 metres) above the water level. It is just 63 feet (19.2 metres) short of a quarter mile in length between abutments. There is a similar bridge on the same railway line crossing the Moonee Ponds Creek between Gowenbrae and Glenroy, however it is smaller at 1060 feet (323.08 metres) length and 115 feet (35.05) height.The bridge is now Victorian Heritage Registered under Number: H1197, and Heritage Overlay Numbers HO5, and HO107. On the Heritage Register it is named RAIL BRIDGE (ALBION VIADUCT). According to the Heritage Report the bridge is scientifically and architecturally important because of its large size, and because of the cost effective design features such as two girders per span (one for each track), the K bracing in the towers, and the broad flange beams as columns. When it was being built it was the largest trestle bridge in Australia, and until the Sydney Harbour bridge was constructed it was the highest railway bridge.Five B&W yellowing photos showing stages of construction of the Maribyrnong River Viaduct known as the Trestle Bridge but mainly known locally as the QUARTER MILE BRIDGE. It is a railway only bridge which runs over the Maribyrnong River between Sunshine North and Keilor East. A sixth image, which is not part of this set of photos, is included to show what the completed bridge looks like. -
Sunshine and District Historical Society Incorporated
Photograph (1905), BRAYBROOK JUNCTION STATION
The Braybrook Junction railway station was opened on 7th September 1885 at the junction of the railway lines to Ballarat and to Bendigo. In 1904 H. V. McKay purchased the Braybrook Implement Works nearby, and in 1906 he moved his Sunshine Harvester Works agricultural machinery business from Ballarat to Braybrook Junction. In 1907 the station and township were renamed Sunshine after the Sunshine Harvester Works. On 20 April 1908 (Easter Monday), Sunshine station was the scene of the biggest train disaster in Victoria, when 44 people were killed and 400 injured from the 1100 people that were aboard the two trains. A Melbourne bound train from Bendigo collided with the rear of a train from Ballarat. There is a memorial plaque on platform 1 at the present Sunshine station. Sunshine station has recently been undergoing a complete rebuild. On 20 January 2014 the station, although not yet completed, was opened for train use, after being closed for several weeks.This photograph is significant because it is a reminder that the present Sunshine station and the nearby area were once named Braybrook Junction. It also shows what the Station, the Signal Box, and the station personnel looked like in circa 1905.Monochrome photograph showing Braybrook Junction Station and the Signal Box, plus station personnel. One of the personnel is holding a 'Staff' which was actually the authority for the train to proceed to the next Station or Signal Box. Photograph has substantial crazing in the upper left corner, a long diagonal crease, and dog eared corners.BRAYBROOK JUNCTNbraybrook junction station, railway, sunshine, train, transport, 1905, 1907, 1908, 7 september 1885 -
Ballarat Heritage Services
Document, 116-122 LYDIARD ST N & 8-10 MAIR ST BALLARAT CENTRAL VIC 3350
lydiard street north, mair street, architecture, railway station, c.d. cuthbert, robert dunn, reid's coffee palace -
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Pamphlet - digital photographs, Clare Gervasoni, Birregurra Railway Station, 2020
00000 RSColour photographs of the Birregurra Railway station birregurra, birregurra water tower, railway, birregurra railway station, points -
Rutherglen Historical Society
Image, Rutherglen Railway Station, 20/01/1907
Colour postcard photograph showing railway station and yard with a steam train engineWritten on back of card: "Address 214 Talbot St South Ballarat | Rutherglen 20/1/07 | Dear Alick. All well. Hope you are enjoying your new place & are in good health. Am going away by Excursion on Wednesday if any chance would like to see you have left my job so may not come back. Toby | Yours T Irvine" Address: "Mr A Hylands | c/o Mr Touleins | Baker | Swanpool | via Benalla" 1d stamp with postmark: "Rutherglen JA 22 07"rutherglen railway station, railway stations, steam trains -
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Digital photographs, L.J. Gervasoni, Snow on the trains at Daylesford Station, c2012-2016
Digital imagesdaylesford, snow, weather, climate, winter, cityscape, viewscape, trains, train station, daylesford railway station -
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Digital photographs, L.J. Gervasoni, Moyne Station, 2016
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Digital photographs, L.J. Gervasoni, Moyne Station - birds, 2016
Digital imagesmoyne, railway, moyne railway siding, moyne railway station, transport, rail trail, trees, birds, kookaburras, wagtail -
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Digital photographs, L.J. Gervasoni, Marker - Koroit Railway Station, 2016
Digital imagestransport, rail trail, koroit, koroit railway station, stone marker, stone, marker, roadside, verge -
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Digital photographs, L.J. Gervasoni, Koroit Railway Station, 2016
Digital imagestransport, rail trail, koroit, koroit railway station, timetable -
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Digital photographs, L.J. Gervasoni, Koroit Railway Station, 2016
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Digital photographs, Koroit Railway Station Goods Shed and Siding, 2016
Digital images of remnant railway items at the former Koroit Railway Station. transport, rail trail, koroit, koroit railway station, goods shed, siding -
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Digital photographs, L.J. Gervasoni, Koroit Railway Station, 2016
Digital imagestransport, rail trail, koroit, koroit railway station, goods shed, siding, metal, nails -
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Photograph - Digital photographs, L.J. Gervasoni, Koroit Railway Station, 2016
Koroit is a town in Western Victoria.Digital images of a railway sign for Koroittransport, rail trail, koroit, koroit railway station, sign -
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Photograph - Digital photographs, L.J. Gervasoni, Koroit Railway Station, 2016
Digital images of rusty railway infrastructure at Koroit Railway Station.transport, rail trail, koroit, koroit railway station, sign, wood, equipment, stairs, switch, rust -
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Digital photographs, L.J. Gervasoni, Former Koroit Railway Station, 2016
Digital images of a brick railway station at Koroit, Victoria. transport, rail trail, koroit, koroit railway station, buildings -
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Photograph - Black and White, D242 train at Maryborough Railway Station, c1920s
Steam train at a Maryborough (Victoria) station. Driver James Kinnane standing on the platform second from left.railway, steam train, kinnane, james kinnane, maryborough railway station -
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Photograph - Colour, Snow at Daylesford, c1999
A number of colour photographs showing trains at Daylesford Railway Station after snow.daylesford, daylesford railway station, snow, trains -
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digital photographs, Lisa Gervasoni, Flinders St wrapped, 2017
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Image - Black and White, A Mallee Railway Station, C1905
Image of a Mallee Railway station.politician, land acts, john murray, wine, mallee -
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Photograph, Railway Platform at Carisbrook
Associated with CarisbrookPhotograph of a woman standing beside railway tracks and six people standing on the platform. Two seem to be folding lamps. em22, carisbrook, carisbrook railway station, carisbrook railway platform -
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Photograph, A Train being Fueled at Carisbrook Railway Station
Associated with CarisbrookA man shovels coal for use in a steam train. em22, carisbrook, carisbrook railway station, carisbrook railway platform, coal, train, stream train -
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Photograph - Image, Maryborough Railway Station, c1951
Maryborough Railway Station was built in Victoria's heyday of railway planning. A black and white photograph of Maryborough Railway Stationmaryborough railway station, maryborough, architecture -
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Photograph - Image, Flinders Street Railway Station, Melbourne, c1951
A black and white photograph of Flinders Street Railway Station in Melbourne.flinders street station, railway station, flinders street, melbourne, railway -
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Photograph, Lithgow Brick and Drain-Pipe Works, 1906
In 1870 clay deposits were discovered in the Lithgow Valley in the vicinity of the Lithgow Valley Colliery. A brick and pottery works were opened there in 1877 with additional clay also being obtained from deposits near the Mt Clarence Railway Station.Lithgow Brick and Drain-Pipe Workslithgow brick and drain-pipe works, lithgow