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9631448
  • Title
    Series 5: Edward Downs collection of glass negatives of locomotives, trains and railway station construction, ca. 1855-ca. 1925
  • Call number
    ON 640/Boxes 2-11
  • Level of description
    series
  • Date

    ca. 1855-ca. 1925
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    9631448
  • Physical Description
    139 negatives - glass - 16.5 x 21.5 cm
  • Scope and Content
    ON 640/Box 2
    1. 1035 NN
    2. 1068 S
    3. 402 1
    4. 287 R
    5. 1160 TF
    6. 3265 P
    7. ? T
    8. 851 P
    9. 440 L
    10. 955 TF
    11. 1315 NN
    12. 315 B
    13. 374 H "Lizzie"
    14. 406 CG
    15. 1211 G

    ON 640/Box 3
    16. O Class
    17. 1250 S
    18. O Class - 451
    19. CC Class
    20. 394 X
    21. 255 D
    22. Cab of D
    23. 1009 S
    24. 402 1
    25. Iron Duke [Damaged]
    26. 1285 T
    27. 1370 K
    28. P & D at Central

    ON 640/Box 4
    29. NN
    30. V Class
    31. 411 CC
    32. 489 J
    33. 142 A
    34. 934 E
    35. 1311 NN
    36-37. 1353 K
    38. 1238S at Central

    ON 640/Box 5
    39-40. CC & Train
    41. S 663 & Royal Train [1920]
    42. S 1224 at Central
    43. Manning River [Train with covered and passenger cars]
    44. R Class at Central
    45. S Class at Central
    46. S Class at Canterbury
    47. TF Class at Hawkesbury Tunnel [Damaged]
    48. S at Redfern
    49. S at Milsons Point
    50. E on Camden Bridge
    51. A/E on Camden Line at Station
    52. NN Eastwood
    53. T on bridge renewal
    54. Rail motor "Kathleen"
    55 S at Eastwood

    ON 640/Box 6
    56. 11 Royal - No.1397
    57. Staff Catcher
    58. T on bridge construction
    59. P11 on train
    60. E Camden - Train with passenger cars
    61. Water tank bogie - L56, 19011
    62. Water tank bogie - L40, 20988
    63. Covered bogie car - Bulk Wheat & General Goods - 21137
    64. EVC Loco - 4 trains at water tower

    ON 640/Box 7
    65. Manning River Bridge
    66. Museum excavation, ca. 1925 [showing Mark Foys department store, corner of Elizabeth and Liverpool St, south Hyde Park]
    67. Bankstown Station, ca. 1918-1923
    68. Redfern Station
    69. Stanwell Park, P Class engine [Damaged]
    70. St James excavation showing St James Church, Macquarie Street and steam cranes
    71. Silos White Bay
    72. Canterbury
    73. Sydenham station
    74. Museum excavation showing Elizabeth Street, T and G site, old synagogue and Bathurst Street
    75. St James excavation
    76. Illawarra junction box at Eveleigh yards
    77. White Bay
    78. S at Redfern Station
    79. T at Stanwell Park
    80. Illawarra junction box
    81. S on North Shore
    82. St James excavation

    ON 640/Box 8
    83. Big Gun at Central Station
    84-86. Central approach
    87. Central at night
    88. Central approach
    89. Central signal box
    90. Central tower
    91-92. Central signal box
    93. Central signals
    94. Central from tower
    95. S and West (?) box

    ON 640/Box 9
    96. 1480 Cooks River 'toast-rack' tram
    97. 1170 Haberfield 'toast-rack' tram
    98. Driver & guard
    99. 30 W watering tank with driver and guard
    100. 1480 Cooks River tram
    101. 56S Breakdown Car with driver and conductor
    102. Signal box with tram, corner of Park and Elizabeth Street, Hyde Park
    103. 1258 tram - Little Coogee.
    104. Conductor with ticket holder
    105. Queen Victoria markets, ca. 1918-1923
    106. 1179 Ryde tram front end
    107. 1258 Kensington tram front end
    108. Railway Square, ca. 1920

    ON 640/Box 10
    109. 103A Arncliff steam train
    110. 125 A steam train
    111. 103 & steam tram Arncliffe
    112. V Class
    113. Cable car 489, Brunswick Line with passengers, conductor and brakeman
    114. Hawthorne No. 5 (broken negative)
    115. 7A Narrow (Vic.)
    116. No. 1 AVE First Class Car (Victorian railway)
    117. DD Class
    118. A2 Class
    119. DDE Class
    120. C No 1 Class
    121. A2 and train 672 (Vic.)
    122. Electric car 128 AC
    123. Electric train
    124. Electric trailer
    125. Electric 1st Class
    126. St Kilda tram 33 (negative has broken corner)

    ON 640/Box 11
    [Original listing:]
    127. WAGR Garrett
    128-129. GAR
    130. QGR
    131. GAR
    132. WAGR Garrett
    133. NZ Sleeping car
    134. NZ First car
    135. QGR train
    136. 686 NZR
    137. French loco
    138. English loco
    139. 4-6-4 tank

    [Description of Box 11 contents, not matched to original listing]

    -Train No.694 "Lady MacGregor"
    -Nord 3.1101
    -Train 2222 "Sir Gilbert Claughton"
    -Gold Coast Railways Train 83 Leeds No.1155-1914
    -Train 9 SAR Islington Works, October 1900
    -Train 180 SAR Islington Works, Feburary 190[3?]
    -Train [unidentified]
    -Train [unidentified]
    -Train 686 No.213-1917
    -Train next to paddocks
    -First Class Car AQ339
    -First Class 587 Sleeping Car
    -Train 888
  • Copying Conditions
    Out of copyright:
    Research & study copies allowed:
    Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
  • Description source

    Contents lists provided by Edward Downs. Negatives are not numbered
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