Significance
Yields information about the way the BTPS in its early days went about collecting materials / sleepers for its work at the depot from track being excavated. Has track demolition in the background.
Physical description
Newspaper clipping from The Courier, Ballarat, dated Monday, 3/7/1972 featuring a photograph of six BTPS members recovering sleepers from the Sturt St. West area during track removal works. Has Graham Evans, Noel Forster, Richard Gilbert, Hal Cain, Gavin Young and Warren Doubleday in the photograph.
One of a large group of newspaper cuttings from John Bainbridge, 7/4/02.
See Reg Item 3818 for a print of the actual photograph.
Inscriptions & markings
Second copy has the source and date in red ink.
