This stencil was used as a location stamp for the transportation of wool bales. Boston is a city in Massachusetts, USA. Wool bales marked BOSTON would have been transported to USA by sea.Wool bale export stencil - BOSTONBOSTONwool - transportation, wool sales, wool class, wool classers

This stencil was used as a location stamp for the transportation of wool bales. Ostend is a city in Belgium. Wool bales marked OSTEND would have been transported to Belgium by sea.Wool bale export stencil - OSTENDOSTENDwool - transportation, wool sales, wool class, wool classers

This stencil was used as a location stamp for the transportation of wool bales. Bordaux is a city in France. Wool bales marked BORDAUX would have been transported to France by sea.Wool bale export stencil - BORDAUXBORDAUXwool - transportation, wool sales, wool class, wool classers

This stencil was used as a location stamp for the transportation of wool bales. Dyersburg is a city in Tennessee, USA. Wool bales marked DYERSBURG would have been transported to USA by sea.Wool bale export stencil - DYERSBURGDYERSBURGwool - transportation, wool sales, wool class, wool classers

This stencil was used as a location stamp for the transportation of wool bales. Hsin Kang is a port in China. Wool bales marked HSIN KANG would have been transported to China by sea.Wool bale export stencil - HSIN KANGHSIN KANGwool - transportation, wool sales, wool class, wool classers

This stencil was used as a location stamp for the transportation of wool bales. Fremantle is a port city in Western Australia. Wool bales marked FREMANTLE would have been transported to Western Australia by sea.Wool bale export stencil - FREMANTLEFREMANTLEwool - transportation, wool sales, wool class, wool classers

This stencil was used as a location stamp for the transportation of wool bales. Norfolk is a county in East Anglia in England. Wool bales marked NORFOLK would have been transported to England by sea.Wool bale export stencil - NORFOLKNORFOLKwool - transportation, wool sales, wool class, wool classers

This stencil was used as a location stamp for the transportation of wool bales. Roumania is the former English spelling of Romania. Wool bales marked ROUMANIA would have been transported to Romania by sea.Wool bale export stencil - ROUMANIA ROUMANIA wool - transportation, wool sales, wool class, wool classers

This stencil was used as a location stamp for the transportation of wool bales. Toronto is a city in Canada. Wool bales marked TORONTO would have been transported to Canada by sea.Wool bale export stencil - TORONTOTORONTOwool - transportation, wool sales, wool class, wool classers

This stencil was used as a location stamp for the transportation of wool bales. Uxbridge is a town in England. Wool bales marked UXBRIDGE would have been transported to England by sea.Wool bale export stencil - UXBRIDGEUXBRIDGEwool - transportation, wool sales, wool class, wool classers

This stencil was used as a location stamp for the transportation of wool bales. Montreal is a city in Canada. Wool bales marked MONTREAL would have been transported to Canada by seaWool bale export stencil - MONTREALMONTREALwool - transportation, wool sales, wool class, wool classers

This stencil was used as a location stamp for the transportation of wool bales. Osaka is a city in Japan. Wool bales marked OSAKA would have been transported to Japan by sea.Wool bale export stencil - OSAKAOSAKAwool - transportation, wool sales, wool class, wool classers

This stencil was used as a location stamp for the transportation of wool bales. Amsterdam is a capital of the Netherlands. Wool bales marked AMSTERDAM would have been transported to the Netherlands by sea.Wool bale export stencil - AMSTERDAM AMSTERDAM wool - transportation, wool sales, wool class, wool classers

This stencil was used as a location stamp for the transportation of wool bales. Clarksville is a city in Tennassee, USA. Wool bales marked CLARKSVILLE would have been transported to the USA by sea.Wool bale export stencil - CLARKSVILLECLARKSVILLEwool - transportation, wool sales, wool class, wool classers

This stencil was used as a location stamp for the transportation of wool bales. Valpariaso is a city in Chile. Wool bales marked VALPARIASO would have been transported to Chile by sea.Wool bale export stencil - VALPARIASOVALPARIASOwool - transportation, wool sales, wool class, wool classers

This stencil was used as a location stamp for the transportation of wool bales. Port Elizabeth city in South Africa. Wool bales marked ELIZABETH would have been transported to South Africa by sea.Wool bale export stencil - ELIZABETHELIZABETHwool - transportation, wool sales, wool class, wool classers

This stencil was used as a depot identification stamp for the transportation of wool bales. Wool bales marked with SUB DEPOT ABBASSIA EGYPT would have been transported to Egypt by sea.Wool bale export stencil - NO 2. SUB DEPOT ABBASSIA EGYPT BALE NO.NO 2. SUB DEPOT ABBASSIA EGYPT BALE NO.wool - transportation, wool sales, wool class, wool classers

This stencil was used as a depot identification stamp for the transportation of wool bales. Wool bales marked with C00 BOMBAY would have been transported to India by sea.Wool bale export stencil - C00 BOMBAY BALE NO.C00 BOMBAY BALE NO.wool - transportation, wool sales, wool class, wool classers

This stencil was used as a depot identification stamp for the transportation of wool bales. Wool bales marked with DEPOT SIDINGS KASR.EL NIL RARRACKS CAIRO EGYPT would have been transported to Egypt by sea.Wool bale export stencil - 0/0. ORDNANCE DEPOT SIDINGS KASR.EL NIL RARRACKS CAIRO EGYPT0/0. ORDNANCE DEPOT SIDINGS KASR.EL NIL RARRACKS CAIRO EGYPT BALE Nowool - transportation, wool sales, wool class, wool classers

This stencil was used as a location stamp for the transportation of wool bales. B'FORD L'POOL is the abbreviation of Bradford Liverpool. Bradford and Liverpool are two cities located in the United Kingdom. Wool bales marked B'FORD L'POOL would have been transported to either English cities by sea.Wool bale export stencil - B'FORD L'POOLB'FORD L'POOLwool - transportation, wool sales, wool class, wool classers

This stencil was used as a location stamp for the transportation of wool bales. Leningrad, now Saint Petersburg is a Russian port city on the Baltic Sea. Wool bales marked LENINGRAD would have been transported to Russia by sea.Wool bale export stencil - LENINGRAD CARBONISEDLENINGRAD CARBONISEDwool - transportation, wool sales, wool class, wool classers

This stencil was used as a location stamp for the transportation of wool bales. Saylesville is a village and historic district in Lincoln, Rhode Island known for its textile mills. Wool bales marked SAYLEVILE would have been transported to the USA by sea.Wool bale export stencil - SAYLEVILESAYLEVILEwool - transportation, wool sales, wool class, wool classers

This stencil was used as a location stamp for the transportation of wool bales. Y'hama is the abbreviated version of Yokohama, a Japanese city south of Tokyo. Wool bales marked Y'HAMA would have been transported to Yokohama by sea.Wool bale export stencil - Y'HAMAY'HAMAwool - transportation, wool sales, wool class, wool classers

This stencil was used as a location stamp for the transportation of wool bales. There are many towns and cities around the world called Winston. Wool bales marked WINSTON would have been transported to any one of them by sea.Wool bale export stencil - WINSTONWINSTONwool - transportation, wool sales, wool class, wool classers

This stencil was used as a location stamp for the transportation of wool bales. Odessa is a port city on the Black Sea in southern Ukraine. Wool bales marked ODESSA would have been transported to Ukraine by sea.Wool bale export stencil - ODESSAODESSAwool - transportation, wool sales, wool class, wool classers

S.s.Casino 1910. The people on the decks are tourists coming from Terang and surrounding areas to spend the day at the seaside. The steamer S.S.CASINO was much loved by the whole Port Fairy community- with the possible exception of some of the fishermen whose boats she ran down! Transport of the large quantities of wool, potatoes, onions, grain, sheep, cattle and other produce grown on the rich lands of the Western District Belfast was served by a plethora of shipping, both sail and steam, but only one of the steamers then in the regular trade (S.S. DAWN) would ever be able to get up the river and reap the cost savings of loading against a wharf. It was not unusual for four steamers to be anchored in the bay at once and for seven or eight different steamers to call during a week. A number of inter-colonial steamers also called to pick up produce for delivery to Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide. Production in the Western District was increasing and virtually all of that production had to go through one of the western ports in order to reach markets. By 1882 a meeting 15ft. March, 1882, in the office of auctioneer, J.B. HoIden in Cox Street took action and it was unanimously resolved - that the Belfast & Koroit Steamship Company be formed with a capital of £20,000 in 10,000 shares of £2 each". A number of steamers were offered by letter to the fledgling company, including the new and almost sister ships, CASINO and HELEN NICHOLL. The CASINO was on her delivery voyage from England was due to arrive in Warrnambool to load potatoes for Sydney and, initially, arrangements were made for her to call into Port Fairy for inspection by the BKNS Co directors. She eventually proceeded direct to Warrnambool and the Directors inspected her there. Without hesitation they purchased her even though they had to raise a large bank loan to do so. The CASINO arrived in Port Fairy on Saturday, 29th. July, 1882, steaming triumphantly up the Moyne River, and was greeted by crowds, many of whom had driven in from the surrounding countryside, which gave her “loud ringing English cheers". By 1884 the CASINO could not carry all the cargoes available to her and in December of that year the company purchased the new steamer BELLINGER to provide additional capacity. She helped to open up the intermediate ports of Lorne, Apollo Bay and Port Campbell, but the BELLINGER was not really suitable for the trade and she was sold in 1887, leaving the CASINO to operate alone -as she was to do for almost all of the next 45 years. The opening of the railway in 1890 decreased the cargo available to the steamers and the economic depression of the early 1890's worsened the situation. The weak soon began to fall by the wayside and when the Portland & Belfast SN Co. decided to go into liquidation in April 1895, the Belfast & Koroit Company bought the Portland Company's steamer DAWN on advantageous terms, a substantial part of the payment being in BKSN Co shares. The BKNS Co and the Howard Smith Line came into direct head to head competition and nearly forced the BKNS Co out of existence. Cargo dropped to such an extent that in 1899, they reached agreement that only one ship would run and that the ship which ran would pay a weekly amount to the competitor to stay out of the trade. This controlled service ceased in1909, and competition intensified when Howard Smith placed the newly built, larger steamer EUMERALLA on the run. The BKNS Co survived this competition and even prospered during it partly by extending on a more regular basis, the CASINO'S voyages to South Australian ports Port Macdonnell, Kingston, Beachport, Robe and, on occasions Adelaide. There were setbacks when, on 20 October 1924, CASINO went ashore at the Kennett River, near Apollo Bay, and again, in February l929, when she struck a submerged object at Warrnambool and had to be beached. The railways placed great competitive pressure on the small steamship company and this pressure was intensified when the Great Depression slashed the market for Western District produce, BKNS Co struggled on, paying dividends in most years, and the company planned a big celebration for the CASINO'S fiftieth anniversary in the trade on 29th July, 1932. Disaster struck soon after 9 o'clock on the morning of Sunday I0 July, 1932 when the CASINO was lost at Apollo Bay together with the lives of 10 crew members. Black and white photograph of tourists crowded on the decks of s.s.Casino during a sail around the bay for Terang dayship, boat, sea, river, s.s.casino 1910, transport, 1910, wool, onions, grain, sheep, cattle, steam, terang day

The mining company in Seddonville New Zealand purchased a small steamer, SS Lawrence, to transport coal, but in 1891 the vessel was wrecked at the mouth of the Mōkihinui river. The remains of the ship can sometimes be seen today at low tide on the beach on the south side of the Mōkihinui River mouth.Black & white photographship, boat, sea, river, ss lawrence, steamer, coal, new zealand, mokihinui river, shipwreck

This cushion cover was owned by Arthur Lock, a soldier in the 2/23rd Battalion. After initial training in Albury, N.S.W. and Bonegilla, Victoria, they left for overseas service. Embarking in November 1940 on the transport Strathmore at Port Melbourne, the 2/23rd arrived in Egypt in mid-December. From Egypt they were deployed to Tobruk. The battalion helped defend Tobruk for eight months, manning a series of concrete pillboxes located in a semicircle around the town, called the Red Line. In October the majority of the 9th Division, except the 2/13th Infantry Battalion, was evacuated by sea. The 2/23rd left on 18 October and sailed to Alexandria. The division was transferred to Palestine and then Syria for rest and garrison duties.This item is part of a collection of items owned by Athur Lock, a member of the 2/23rd Battalion, an all-volunteer Second Australian Imperial Force which served as part of the garrison during the Siege of Tobruk, then at El Alamein, New Guinea and Borneo. It has particular local significance as the battalion was know as "Albury's Own" because a large majority of the battalion's initial intake of volunteers came from the Albury–Wodonga region.A cushion cover embroidered with the insignia of the Australian Commonwealth Military Forces 1941. Top 'Souvenir of Palestine" Centre Insignia of the Australian Commonwealth Military Forces, Bottom "1941"world war 11, rats of tobruk, palestine

The Fred Rochow Railways Collection incorporates photos related to the operation of the Wodonga Railway Station including different types of trains and railways staff C. 1930 – 1990. It was donated to the Wodonga Historical Society by Fred Rochow, a railwayman who spent many years based in Wodonga. He joined the Victorian Railways on 17th June l947 and retired in 1988. For some time, he was a member of the Australian Federated Union of Locomotive Enginemen and served a term as a member of the Trades Hall Council. He had an extensive knowledge of the struggles that took place to achieve better conditions for railway workers. Fred worked for many years as a fireman and then worked his way up the ranks to driver, experiencing many changes from the days of steam locomotives through to diesel trains, locomotives and even the modern XPT train. He worked throughout Victoria at different stages of his career, with his final working years focused on the northeast of Victoria and the Albury to Melbourne line. After his retirement, Fred continued to share his love of steam miniature trains with the community. Shelley Railway Station - Shelley was once Victoria's highest railway station, located 781 metres above sea level. The Shelley Railway Station was opened in 1916 and closed in 1979. The railway was used early in its life to transport farmer’s livestock from the Upper Murray to Wodonga. From the 1950s the railway was used heavily to transport equipment and machinery from Wodonga to the Upper Murray to help build the Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Scheme. The Snowy Hydro Scheme was completed in 1974 and after several years of low level use, the railway was closed. Some remnants of the Shelley Station passenger platform can still be seen today, along with some information boards. The Shelley Railway Station now forms part of the High Country Rail Trail.This collection has local and statewide significance as it captures images of trains, locomotives and personnel who operated the railway services in Wodonga and throughout Northeast Victoria. The railways played a critical role in opening up Victoria and connecting Australia for trade, business, social communication and transport.Left to Right: Fireman Bert Cadman, Driver Wally Riley, Guard Hugh Fraser. Locomotive S300 - the ‘Matthew Flinders’ The S class diesel locomotives were built by Clyde Engineering in 1957 for the Victorian Railways. Designed as premier express passenger diesels, they assumed the ‘S class’ title from a fleet of steam locomotives. They were also given names of famous Australians. The S300 took the name ‘Matthew Flinders’. In 1962, S300 was converted from the Victorian broad gauge of 5’3” to the New South Wales gauge of 4’8.5”, in order to operate the new Southern Aurora between Sydney & Melbourne. As the locomotive grew older it was removed from these duties and was sold to Chicago Freight Car Leasing Australia (CFCLA) in 2004. It is now owned by a private owner and is on loan to the Canberra Railway Museum.railways wodonga, fred rochow, wodonga railwaymen, s class locomotive