Photographs show various machinery, sheaves and cables inside the Toorak Rd Engine House. The photographs appear not to be original but photographs of photographs.Yields information about the interior of a cable engine house Black and white photographs, some with note below photo or on rear. Printed below image or written with biro on rear: "Prahran" or "Toorak Cable"boiler, sheave, cable, tension carriage

Memorandum - 3 quarto ruled sheets + part of a former poster with a cover note, dated 20/10/1921.   Written in ink to Mr. J. W. Duncan General Superintendent by William Pollock Acting Supt. about the issues at the Toorak Road Engine House regarding poor coke, recording the times of the fireman and trimmer, and problems in keeping up the power required due to the high percentage of breeze.  Looks at the use of staff to fire and maintain supplies. Handwritten cover note was written on a torn poster from the Brunswick line noting a complaint from Thomson Fireman at the engine house about the lack of assistance.   Was pinned to the three-page note and written in pencil."date stamped 20/10/21trams, tramways, boilers, power house, winding houses, personnel

This photographic copy of an older photo shows a Carlton-bound cable tram on a flooded Chapel Street adjacent to the Jam Factory. The Yarra River and its tributaries frequently flooded in the 1800s and early 1900s before flood mitigation works were completed. This photograph might be from the disastrous Melbourne Flood of 1891 when the Yarra River flooded the Toorak Engine House and submerge many cable lines. Alternatively, it may be dated 1907 when South Yarra was hit with a flash flood on 25 January.Yields information about cable trams affected by flooding.. Black and white photograph and nothing on rear.carlton-bound, cable tram, flooded chapel street, jam factory, frequently flooded, flood mitigation works, melbourne flood of 1891, toorak engine house, 1907, south yarra, flash flood

Black and white photograph of the interior of the engines and rope drive in the Toorak Engine House - see page 5 of Reg Item 2299, for an article on the engine house and photograph details. State Library of Vic image M5 15304/1, Page 20 Image 1. 2nd copy added 18/3/2021On rear in pencil and ink various dimensions and instructions regarding printing of the image. In the top left hand corner "Latrobe". Stamped on rear "Photofix Photographic 15 Latrobe St Melbourne Phone 662 3904"trams, tramways, cable trams, toorak rd, winding houses, chapel st

Newspaper clipping about the demolition of the former engine house at the corner of Chapel St and Toorak Road, at the time the "Fun Factory". Details the proposed development use as Capital Bakeries, along with Cr Makris holding an original plan of the building, was to be developed for a commercial residential development. This proposal did not proceed, but a later proposal saw the building demolished.Yields information about the former Toorak engine house.Newspaper cutting from The Age, 6/4/1990 titled "Little left to save of cable-tram building"In ink "Corner of Chapel St & Toorak Road"cable trams, engine houses, winding house, toorak road car sheds, toorak road, chapel st