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Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society
Photograph - Coloured, C 1980s
This is a photo of one of the trestle bridges on the Heatherlie Quarry train line. It is located near the current site of "the Pines" campground. The woman on the bridge is Janet Witham.Photo is of a derelict trestle bridge over a shallow creek, taken on an angle. There are many sleepers missing and the bridge is surrounded by thick bush and trees. There is bracken in the left foreground. A woman wearing a blue top and grey/brown slacks.structures, bridges, quarrying, heatherlie -
Orbost & District Historical Society
pamphlet, VR Printing Works, Railways, 1975
This pamphlet was produced by Victorian Railways. In 1976 the name Victorian Railways was replaced by Vicrail.Railways have played a key role in Victorian transport especially in linking regional towns to the cities. The railways have provided jobs for many Orbost people. This item is associated with the history of the Orbost-Bairnsdale railway line and therefore reflects the role that the rail line played in the social and economic history of Orbost.A pamphlet produced for Victorian Railways. On the front is a coloured photograph of a train. It contains photographs and an article about Orbost as "Timber Country" and a detailed article titled, " Cutting Sleepers is a Family Business" which tells about the Donchi family.pamphlet-victorian-railways sleeper-cutting donchi -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Newspaper, The Courier Ballarat, "Bringing back the trams", Apr. 1973
Newspaper clipping from The Courier, ?/4/1973 of five members of the BTPS lifting a rail onto sleepers along the position of the access track. Features from Left (W. A. Doubleday, ? (behind a person), ?, L. Bounds and J. Bounds)date in pencil of "12?/4/73" in top right hand corner of cutting.trams, tramways, btps, track laying, museum establishment -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Photograph, 2000
Building was residence of State School teacher from 1890's. Typical of Education Department residence for teacher. During 1990's cladding and window frames were altered.Colour photograph of a timber dwelling with high pitched gable roof. Gablet ventilator in centre of roof. Narrow front veranda. Pretty garden beds enclosed with railway sleepers. Situated at 14 Bulmer Street, Lakes Entrance Victoriahouses, fences, heritage study -
Federation University Historical Collection
Map, Matthew Cibson, University of Ballarat Centre for Environmental Management, Ballarat Technology Park Conservation Plan, 1997, 02/1997
The Ballarat Technology Park is on the Federation University Mount Helen CampusMap showing the Ballarat Technlogy Camp, Greenhill Enterprise Centre, Canadian Wetlands. hand-made brick culvert sleepers, Ballarat-Buninyong Railway Line, IBM Global Services, early wooden bridge, Canadian Creek, Gear Avenue. ballarat technology park, canadian wetlands, greenhill enterprise centre, brick cultert, railway, ballarat-buninyong railway -
Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society
Photograph - Coloured, C 1980s
This is a photo of one of the trestle bridges on the Heatherlie Quarry train line. The bridge is located near the current location of "The Pines" campground.The photo is a "front on" of a derelict trestle bridge crossing a shallow creek; many sleepers are missing and thick bush and trees surround the bridge. There are four adults at the end of the bridge, one standing and three seatede. The bottom left hand side of the photo is blurredstructures, bridges, quarrying, heatherlie -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Book, The Electric Railway Improvement Co. (ERICO), "Notes on Bonding and Return Circuits", c1916
Book, titled, "Notes on Bonding and Return Circuits" consisting of 20 pages, printed in black ink. Prepared by The Electric Railway Improvement Co. of Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Gives costs of welding, bonding, rail resistance, voltage drops, testing methods, electrolysis, rail expansion, rail section, sleeper track, treatment of ties (sleepers), and the monthly average price of copper from period 1885 to Dec. 1915, the power required for electric traction and a list of clients. Date of printing not given in document, estimated to be c1916. See also item Reg. No. 1638 for a book on equipment for welding and bonding.trams, tramways, trackwork, rail bonding, erico, welding -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Newspaper, The Courier Ballarat, "Tram work is on track", 9/09/2019 12:00:00 AM
Newspaper cutting from The Courier, Ballarat, 9 September 2019, titled "Tram work is on track", reporting on replacement of the track between depot junction at Carlton St. Has a photo of the sleepers being unloaded. Story by Jolyon Attwooll, photo Kate Healy.btm, trackwork, track repairs -
Ballarat Heritage Services
Photograph - War memorial, Clare Gervasoni, Ballarat Prisoner of War Memorial, 11/03/2017
Designed in 2004 by sculptor Peter Lambert the memorial honours more than 35,000 Australians held prisoner of war during the Boer War, both world wars and the Korean War.Landscape featuring the Ballarat Prisoner of War Memorial. The memorial includes a 130 metre long wall of highly polished granite engraved with the names of all Australian prisoners of war. The paving stones at the centre of the path are cut in the shape of railway sleepers to symbolise the prisoners' journey. prisoner of war, ballarat priosner of war memorial, war memorial -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Negative - Set of 2, Possibly Geoff Grant, c1950
Set of two Black and white negatives of track construction in La Trobe St during 1950. .1 - Looking east from Queen St. Has the Argus building in the view. Both tracks have been constructed and the concrete foundation poured pending the top asphalt layer, a building selling Skoda cars, .2 - Looking west from Queen St with a tram crossing in the background in William St. Photo shoes the method of track construction - timber sleepers with the rail bolted to the sleeper. Pending concerting. In the background is The Mint and terrace houses on the left. There is a billboard for 1949 movie, "The Bribe". Photo not in Wal Jack Melbourne album.trams, tramways, la trobe st, track construction, trackwork, queen st -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Slide, Keith Caldwell, 7/3/1960
Agfa Colour slide, cardboard mount, by Keith Caldwell of 7 March 1960 - of the sleeper transport car No. 15 westbound in Victoria St at intersection with Brunswick St - now St Vincent's Plaza. Tram appears to be carrying old brake blocks back to Preston Workshops..1 - hand stamped "12 Mar '60"trams, tramways, st vincent's plaza, victoria parade, work trams, service tramcars, brake blocks, tram 15 -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Photograph, 1920
Sepia photograph of a tall tree on James Rowes property at Kalimna West. This tree was a landmark for shipping at sea off Lakes Entrance during late 19th and early 20th Centuries. It was later struck by lightning, cut down and hewn into sleepers and beams. Kalimna West Victoriahistoric sites, navigation -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Photograph, 1991
Date made September 1991Black and white photograph of a timber residence with corrugated iron roof, six wide steps leading from shaded veranda, native plant garden in narrow terrace with sleeper steps leading down to mowed lawn. Situated at Mill Point Road, Toorloo Arm Victoriahouses, timber industry, heritage study -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Excavating Railway Cutting to Hurstbridge
Labourers excavate a cutting for the new railiway extension from Eltham to Hurstbridge. Men are working with shovels and buckets, dropping dirt into horse and carts. A pile of newly cut sleepers sit on the sidelines waiting to be laid. The new extension is approx. seven miles in length and opened on 2 January, 1912.This photo forms part of a collection of photographs gathered by the Shire of Eltham for their centenary project book, "Pioneers and Painters: 100 years of the Shire of Eltham" by Alan Marshall (1971). The collection of over 500 images is held in partnership between Eltham District Historical Society and Yarra Plenty Regional Library (Eltham Library) and is now formally known as 'The Shire of Eltham Pioneers Photograph Collection.' It is significant in being the first community sourced collection representing the places and people of the Shire's first one hundred years.Digital imagesepp, shire of eltham pioneers photograph collection, diamond creek, hurstbridge, wattle glen, railway line construction, railroad construction workers, railroad construction -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - UNKNOWN FAMILY COLLECTION: PHOTOGRAPH
Photograph - black and white. Portrait of a woman. She has tight curls. Wearing a high collar, lacy neck tie, satin ribbon on shoulders and around neck. Wearing sleeper earring. Written on back 'Phoebe Jane Lansell, youngest child of Wootton Lansell, (brother of George and William).'Eden Society Studiosperson, individual, female portrait, photograph. portrait of phoebe jane lansell. daughter of wootton lansell. -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Newspaper, The Courier Ballarat, "Still good after Seventeen Years", 18/09/1953 12:00:00 AM
Yields information about a provision of treated wooden pine sleepers to tramways in Ballarat.Newspaper clipping from The Courier, Ballarat, dated 18-9-53 regarding treated softwood sleepers, 100 installed in 1936 from Ballarat Water Commission, creosote treatment CSIRO. Titled "Still good after Seventeen Years" Record updated and images added 20/8/2013.Pencil date of "18-9-53"trams, tramways, sleepers, tram track, trackwork -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Photograph - Colour Print/s, Richard Gilbert, 18/06/2007 12:00:00 AM
Yields information about track work in Wendouree Parade at Depot Junction August 2007.Laminated A4 colour print containing three photographs of the Puffing Billy Track gang replacing sleepers in Wendouree Parade at Depot Junction, 18/6/2007 - See August 2007 Fares Pease for further depot. Photo by Richard Gilbert, digital photograph print laminated for display purposes.trams, tramways, puffing billy, depot junction, trackwork -
Parks Victoria - Gabo Island Lightstation
Nails
The five types of nails include a stamped steel nail made for wooden flooring; four copper nails used for boat building found at various locations on the island; two steel nails removed from the lantern room door during restoration in 2002 which possibly came with the Chance Bros. lantern room kit delivered in 1862; three galvanised steel nails used to pin the railway track to sleepers and decking on the jetty (the rail track carried a small trolley for unloading stores from supply ships); and a square copper nail found on the rocky shore on Tullaberga Island close to the location of the Monumental City wreck of 1853. The huge American steamer, Monumental City, was wrecked on 15 May 1853. Built in 1850, the ship was the first screw-propulsion steamer to cross the Pacific and was heading back to Sydney after dropping off Californians heading for the Victorian goldfields. Thirty-seven lives were lost, including the owner of the ship, Peter Strobel. A medal was awarded by Sydney residents to Charles Plummer who swam ashore with a line from the wreck. The tragedy renewed the urgency for a lighthouse on Gabo Island, and in 1862 when this was achieved an obelisk was erected as a memorial to those who perished. That year, Victorian PWD architect and designer of the lightstation buildings, Charles Maplestone, gave the following instructions: ‘You may remove the remains of the poor unfortunate shipwrecked of the Monumental City to the site on Gabo you propose but take scrupulous care to collect all the remains and inter them decently under the monument. Pray save any relics’.246 Heritage Victoria has 39 artefacts listed under the Historic Shipwrecks Act (S473) with a clear provenance to the Monumental City. While the copper nail has no documented provenance, it still has contributory significance as part of a diverse assemblage of relics that help to interpret the history of the Gabo Island Lightstation and the numerous shipwrecks that have occurred in its vicinity since the mid nineteenth century..1 Steel nail - flat. Stamped. This type of nail was used for secret nailing of flooring. Source of this nail is unknown. .2 Copper nails. This type of nail was used for boat building. Found at various locations around island. .3 Steel nails. Extracted from lantern room door during restoration 2002. .4 Galvanised steel nails. Used to pin railway track to timber sleepers and decking on jetty. Rail track carried a small trolley used during the unloading of stores from supply ships. .5. Copper nail square. This nail was found on the rocky shore line on Tullaberga Island close to the location of the wreck of the "Monumental City" wrecked May 1853. Nail found in June 2000. -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Furniture - Bed
This is Suzy Boyd's bed. The beds of both Suzy and Penleigh Boyd (item F086) seem to be made of mountain ash. An advertisement in the Argus (Wed 7 November 1956) by Myer Emporium for the "Meyer Robson" Studio Divan looks to be the same as these beds in Walsh St. This is a new mattress. Suzy's original mattress was 'Royal Slumber Sleeper'.Single bed with timber frame and mattress and sliding timber drawer attachedwalsh st furnishings, robin boyd -
Ballarat RSL Sub-Branch Inc.
Photograph board - Framed Burma Railway, "Ballarat Connection"
4 x photos two of WW2 era forced labours, two photos 1 of old rail engine and 1 of current train on old rail cutting. 1 x piece of sleeper and rail line spike.Brief history of Alex Bell of Ballarat. Donation plague from Selkirk Group of Comsecond world war (ww2), 1939 - 1945, photo/pictures, ballarat rsl, ballarat -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Document - Photocopy, William. F. Scott, "Tramway Construction and Equipment", mid 1990's?
Photocopy of a four page document, onto two A3 sheets, titled "Tramway Construction and Equipment", produced by Duncan and Fraser, c1887 as it notes Ballarat's horse tramways . Promotion document detailing Duncan and Fraser's premises, Adelaide, track, economics, horse tramcars, depots, horses, rails, sleepers and tram route.trams, tramways, horse trams, adelaide, duncan fraser, ballarat -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Photograph - Black & White Photograph/s, Chris Phillips, 1970's
Black and white photograph of a long line up of trams in the storage roads at Preston workshops, including works tram No. 20, and ex VR54 with visitors looking at them. Taken by Chris Phillips during a tour 9/2/1969. Ballast wagon No. 24, and possibly the tram behind is the sleeper carrier tram.On the rear in red ink "VR 54 Preston Workshops 9/2/69"trams, tramways, mmtb, preston workshops, vr, tram 54, tram 20, tram 24 -
Orbost & District Historical Society
certificate/award, after 1934
This certificate was presented to Donald David Thomson , sleeper hewer, aged 42 years for rescuing S.C. Curtis, aged 52, G. Wylie, aged 54, J. Dalgleish, aged 5 from flood waters at White gulch on the Snowy River on January 8, 1934. (The certificate reads as White's Gulch but should be Watt's gulch.) Although damage estimated at 500,000 pounds was caused by the unprecedented floods along the Snowy River, no lives were lost because of the courageous actions of men like Donald Thomson.A framed copy of a printed and hand-written certificate from the Royal Humane Society of Australia awarded to Donald David Thomson for rescuing victims of the floodwaters in Orbost January 1934. It is dated 6.3.1934.Printed at top of certificate: THE ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY / OF AUSTRALASIA. Has names of Society patrons and committee as well as names and ages of those rescued. award certificate royal-humane-society flood snowy-river 1934 thomson-david -
Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society
Photograph - Coloured, C 1980s
This is a photo of one of the trestle bridges on the Heatherlie Quarry train line. It is located near the current site of "the Pines" campground.Photo shows an angle a derelict bridge with many sleepers missing. Thick bush and trees on left side with weeds in the front. The bridge is over a shallow creek. At the far end of the bridge a man wearing a pink cap and blue jumper stands looking towards camera. Three adults are seated and partly out of picture.structures, bridges, quarrying, heatherlie -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Photograph, 1910
Second copy 18 x 25 cm, purchased from Win Burnett 1992Black and white photograph of activities in front of Harbeck's Store. Long telegraph poles are lying in foreground, stacked railway sleepers behind them, eight horse team harnessed to log wagon in front of general store, grain store and residence. Two smaller wagons, horses and men in image. Lakes Entrance Victoriaretail trade, township, animals, clothing, room display -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Photograph - Colour Print/s - set of 5, Warren Doubleday, 5 and 6/4/2003/
Set of five colour photographs of the repair of northern end of Wendouree Parade. Photos taken on 5 and 6/4/2003, printed on AGFA paper. 2557.1 - The general scene with the new kerb and channel on the north side - backfilling around the sleepers 5/4/03. 2557.2 - Packing between the sleepers, Len Millar, Sam Boon and Richard Gilbert 5/4/03. 2557.3 - Welding track bonds - Paul Mong 6/4/03 2557.4 - Packing the broken joint area - Simon Green, Alan Snowball, Gary Wood, Bryan Hill, Paul Mong and Peter Winspur with No. 8 in the background. 6/4/03. 2557.5 - Testing the track with No. 8 - Garry Wood and Sam Boon.trackwork, wendouree parade, track, tram 8 -
Otway Districts Historical Society
Photograph, Knox Collection, Train hauling timber to build Colac-Beech Forest railway, 1901
The first engines to run on the Colac-Beech Forest line between 1900 and 1902 as work trains were A Class locomotives, otherwise known as 'Coffee Pots'. They were based and serviced at Colac, but coal stages were erected at Barongarook and Wimba water tanks because of the lengthy periods of waiting time required to unload sleepers and rails or to load ballast.An A Class train on a revetment hauling timber and men to build the Colac-Beech Forest railway, with a steep hillside in the background.. B/W.colac; beech forest; railway; timber; -
Otway Districts Historical Society
Photograph, Brucker, Gellibrand station, 1922
Gellibrand station became the railhead for traffic to the Carlisle River and Lardners, as well as the centre of timber and fruit trade. Outward loading was substantial at the time the photograph was taken. Sawn and split timber, firewood, sleepers and piles were loaded in large quantities. The general expansion in traffic led in October 1923 to the laying of an additional loop siding and provision for a goods shed., B/W. In 1922, Gellibrand station with passengers and workmen on the station concourse, and NQR wagons aligned ready to move. Note the water tank on the left and the start of the Refreshment Room on the right.gellibrand; railways; -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Document - Photocopy, "Box Hill - Doncaster Tramway, Transverse Section of Road", c1990?
Photocopy of a drawing showing the proposed transverse sections of the Box Hill to Doncaster Tramway. Drawing prepared at a scale of 4 feet to the inch. Shows the dimensioned sections with the tramcar, poles, sleepers and metal ballast in cutting and in bank (fill). Photocopy larger than original drawing. Has part of a stamp in the lower right hand corner.trams, tramways, box hill, doncaster, plans, sections -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Photograph - Black & White Photograph/s, Clyde Croft, Nov. 1974
Black and white photograph of the laying of the rails for Depot Junction turnout in Wendouree Parade in Nov. 1974 by members of the Ballarat Tramway Preservation Society. Crane positioning rails, onto sleepers. Road has been dug out for curve. From annual report for 1974/75, date is probably Friday 22/11/1974.On rear in one corner is initials 'CC'trams, tramways, btm, trackwork, wendouree parade, btps