Stained Brown Frame. Sepia B/W. Photograph. Group in Natural Bush Setting. Back of Photo and Below Front Back Row L to R: Jeani white, James Paton, Doris, Dave Painter, Daisy Barnes, George M Painter, Miss Sweatman, Mabel McMuulin Miss Sweatman. Middle Row: Miss ?, Mrs & Mr Greenwood, George Annie, Miss Calder, Simon Calder (Father). Bottom Row: Uncle Pat, Ve, ev & Lilla Greenwood, Nett, Harry Greenwoodgreenwood family group

Part of Tim Shambrook's Collection for 'This is Vermont'. Not used.Black and white photo of Vermont State School Pupils taken outside small wooden school in 1888.vermont state school, no. 1022

Part of Tim Shambrook's Collection for 'This is Vermont'. Not used.Coloured photo of Canterbury Road, Vermont in 1967, showing single lane road.canterbury road, vermont., shambrook, tim

Part of Tim Shambrook's Collection for 'This is Vermont'. Not used.Coloured photo of Canterbury Road, Vermont, taken in 1970, showing double lane road with median strip looking East. Roof of Cadbury-Schweppes Factory can be seen.canterbury road, vermont., cadbury-schweppes, shambrook, tim

Part of Tim Shambrook's Collection for 'This is Vermont'. Not used.Coloured photo of Intersection of Canterbury, Mitcham & Boronia Roads, Vermont, taken from Mitcham Road, showing Vermont Shops and St. Lukes Church on left.st. lukes anglican church, vermont, canterbury road, vermont., mitcham road, boronia road, shambrook, tim

Part of Tim Shambrook's Collection for 'This is Vermont'. Not used.Coloured photo of Corner of Canterbury, Mitcham & Boronia Roads, Vermont, taken in 1967, looking West from outside Scout Hall and showing Vermont Shops.vermont scout hall, canterbury road, vermont, boronia road, mitcham road, shambrook, tim

Part of Tim Shambrook's Collection for 'This is Vermont'. Not used.Coloured photo of Shell Service Station (since replaced by Convenience Store) on corner of Boronia & Canterbury Roads, Vermontboronia road, vermont, canterbury road, shambrook, tim

Part of Tim Shambrook's Collection for 'This is Vermont'. Not used.Coloured photo of Shell Service Station (since replaced with Convenience Store) on corner of Boronia & Canterbury Roads, Vermont. Taken outside St. Lukes Anglican Church on Mitcham Road.shell service station, vermont, boronia road, canterbury road, mitcham road, st. lukes anglican church, shambrook, tim

Part of Tim Shambrook's Collection for 'This is Vermont'. Not used.Coloured photo of Vermont Shops on corner of Canterbury and Boronia Roads, Vermont, in 1967. Looking south to Boronia Road.canterbury road, vermont, boronia road, shambrook, tim

Part of Tim Shambrook's Collection for 'This is Vermont'. Not used.Coloured photo of Canterbury Road, Vermont, taken from outside Vermont Primary School (since demolished) on corner of Mitcham Road.vermont state school, no. 1022, canterbury road, vermont, shambrook, tim

Part of Tim Shambrook's Collection for 'This is Vermont', P. 41.Coloured photo of Canterbury Road, Vermont, looking East. Taken in 1967.canterbury road, vermont, shambrook, tim

Part of Tim Shambrook's Collection for 'This is Vermont'. Not used.Coloured photo of Canterbury Road, Vermont, looking East in 1967.canterbury road, vermont, shambrook, tim

Part of Tim Shambrook's Collection for 'This is Vermont'. Not used.Coloured photo of Canterbury Road, Vermont in 1967, looking West.canterbury road, vermont, shambrook, tim

Original Photo courtesy of Melbourne WaterFramed Black and White Photo of Whitehorse Road, Mitcham, in approx 1910 showing St Johns Roman Catholic Church - School (Church 1872-1952 and School 1872 - 1931) in centre, the School Teachers Cottage at left (1902 - 1935)and Mitcham's first Police Station (1888 - 1950) on the right. In the background in the extreme can be scene the original Mitcham Railway Station (1882)In the foreground is what was known as 'The Great 3 Chain Road' now Whitehorse Road (Maroondah Highway).st john's catholic church mitcham, whitehorse road, mitcham, school teacher's cottage, mitcham police station, mitcham railway station, great three chain road, melbourne water

Students at the Shakespeare Grove campus, including Darren and Wayne Krongold (third and fourth from right). Please contact [email protected] to request access to this record.shakespeare grove, 1970s

Sawbridgeworth was built in 1887 by Arthur Wiseman. The house was named after the little English village in Hertfordshire where the Wisemans had lived for hundreds of years. Arthur's brother, Albert, built his mansion, called Ashleigh, which also fronted Widford Street. Wiseman House is located alongside St. Matthew's Anglican Church.Wiseman House is an important building in Glenroy's and St. Matthew's history.Black & white photograph of front facade of Sawbridgeworth House with people in a horse and buggy.Copied with permissionwiseman, st. matthew's

Locomotive 8A, rolling stock, gangers and passengers, somewhere between Gellibrand and Beech Forest.beech forest; gellibrand; railway; loco 8a;

Gellibrand station was one of the larger and more important stations possessing a waiting room, station office, parcels shed and refreshment room joined by a common verandah. The refreshment room was managed for many years by Mrs. O'Neill who, with her staff, around 1920, offered a hot meal for one shilling. In the afternoon, a "cuppa and rock cakes" was available to passengers on the train to Colac. Other patrons were workers from the various establishments in the railway yard.Gellibrand Station Master and Refreshment Room staff, plus two men, under the verandah of the Refreshment Rooms, in front of two railway lines.gellibrand; railways; refreshments; mrs. o'neill;

Locomotives 5A and 14A on a siding at Colac with a boy standing in front. In the background an engine shed and goods sheds, while on the left hand side a louvre van and NQ truck. B/W.colac: beech forest; railway; loco 5a; loco 14a;

Beech Forest railway station is shown in 1908, with staff and local inhabitants fooling around between snow falls. The collection of sheds and huts was added to and grouped under a common verandah in 1914, after this photo..B/W. Beech Forest Railway Station buildings in the snow. Between the buildings and No.1 Road six people with snow balls, two without.beech forest; railway; snow;

B/W. A mixed goods train headed by an NA class locomotive taking water at Kincaid, the fireman looking at the camera, the driver hanging from the entrance to the enging, and a boy standing in front of the engine. kincaid; colac; beech forest; crowes; railways;

B/W. 281mm x 177mm. Tom Woosnan on a trolley at Weeaproinah in about 1941.weeaproinah; railways;

Station facilities for the travelling public on the narrow gauge line at Colac Railway Station were non-existent for many years. Tickets were purchased from the broad gauge booking office and the travellers then had to walk with their luggage over the rough, potentially ankle-twisting, stone approaches, through the goods yard and wait in the open amongst the mud holes alongside the narrow gauge departure track. In 1922 a footbridge was erected over the broad gauge lines, and a passenger shelter and small goods shed were built on the departure track.B/W. At Colac Railway Station, an locomotive 8A with five NQR wagons, an NM livestock wagon and a NBDBD combined passenger and brake van destined for Beech Forest, with either the driver or the fireman peering out of the engine, three youths standing at the front of the engine, and a group of people, including a woman, standing near the livestock wagon. A multi-storied shed and two houses are in the background. 179mm x 280mm picture.colac; railway; narrow gauge; na locomotive;

Originally named 'McInnes' after a local selector, this station opened during construction of the Crowes railway on 1 May 1911. The name was altered to Weeaproinah, the second station of that name, on 9 December 1912, after the parish in which the station was situated. (The original 'Weeaproinah' on the railway became earlier 'Dinmont' in the Olangolah Parish.) The station comprised a passenger shelter and a loop siding with a ramped platform for a sheep and pig race. A departmental residence was built for a track repairer based at the station, but no station or caretaker staff were employed there. The residence was burnt down during the 1919 bushfire but it was replaced and remained in use as a departmental residence until 1930. Weeaproinah became an unattended crossing station in December 1927 under the Train Section Order system.B/W. Weeaproinah mallee shed. In the shed there are five large wall-mounted posters and a cream can. An unlocked door with a "Skins / Hides" poster gives access the inside. A tree trunk stands to the right.weeaproinah; railways; shed;

Wimba station opened with the line in March 1902 as an unnamed stopping place, and a water tank for locomotive requirements was placed on the side of a hill about 100 metres south of the station. Locos bound for Beech Forest stopped at the passenger shelter at the station, uncoupled, and moved forward to the water tank. Goods were loaded and unloaded during this pause. The station and the tank closed with the line.B/W. Engine 14A, an NUU louvre van and an NC guard's van at the Wimba Tank, with fireman L. Moore on the roof of the cabin running water into the engine's tank. The guard returns to his van.wimba; railways; water tank;

This original station on the Colac-Beech Forest line was first known as "Moorbanool" after the local parish, and then shortened to "Banool" on 1 November 1904. At first facilities consisted of a passenger shelter, a loop siding for 11 trucks, plus a residence for the ganger of the track gang based there. By 1912 with the extension of the line to Crowes increased train services on the line required a crossing station in this section of the track, and therefore Banool became a staff and ticket station with a crossing loop and home signals. However, this only lasted for two years and was abolished as an economy measure in 1916. Loading figures show that in most years the outwards tonnage at Banool was less than 150 tonnes. The station was reduced to a passenger shelter and goods loop only by 1929, and by the time of closure in 1962 most trains were steaming through.Colour. Locomotive G42 and its NQR goods wagons, loaded and unloaded, steaming past Banool station passenger shelter. 143mm x 274mm print.banool; moorbanool; railways; locomotive g42;

While one of the lesser prime loading points sawn and split timber were loaded at Beech Forest, and a large share of this was brought to the station over two timber tramways that operated between 1904 and 1933. At the eastern end of the railway yard, near the six-ton derrick crane, a wooden tramline curved out the gate and along the road for about 8 km (5 miles) to the co-operative Box Company, known locally as the Box mill, owned by the Victorian Diary Farmers' Co-operative whose purpose was the milling of butter boxes. Other millers also provided timber. Logs were hauled to the mill by horses, and the sawn timber despatched over a tramline that joined the Box mill line about 1.2 km (0.75 miles) along. B/W. Two men loading puncheons (a short post approximately 4 feet [1.2 metres] especially used for supporting a roof in a coal mine) on a NQR wagon at Beech Forest. Note the lack of trees in the background.beech forest; railways; puncheons;

The railway track was maintained initially by seven three-man gangs headed by a ganger. The gangers tended to be promoted into the Otways but many of their subordinate staff of repairers were local recruits. There were two track gangs at Beech Forest until 1954, so a large number of gangers and repairers was present over the years. World War 2 with petrol and rubber rationing provided a boost to the line. The 1939 bushfire killed a great deal of timber which had to transported out of the Otways, and the commencement of a vigorous wartime pulp wood traffic from Beech Forest meant that only the railway could efficiently handle the volume of traffic. By early 1940 not only the Garratt was running a daily train to Beech Forest but an NA goods train was scheduled to run at night. As a result the track gangs were also particularly busy at the same time.B/W. In snow at Beech Forest, a track gang on a trolley at the entrance to the Way and Works shed, comprising G. Newland, Ned Hewing, Bill Taylor, Jim Gowty, and Buck.beech forest; railways; g. newland; ned hewing; bill taylor; jim gowty; snow; track gang;

In 1902 a ballast siding was opened 4km south of Gellibrand to provide materials for track construction. A spur siding, with points facing Beech Forest and a capacity for six trucks, was cut into the side of a slope. Above this was erected a loading bin and chute. The stone proved to be of durable quality so the siding continued in commission after 1902 for track re-ballasting work. By the mid-1920s Victorian Railways found it more economic to use ballast from Penshurst, so the siding was closed by 1925 and the rails lifted.Photograph; B/W. Gellibrand Ballast Loading Sitegellibrand; ballast; railways; siding;