190 x 140 mm. A view from the side of the river looking along the bridge, which has steel supports and girders.

190 x 140 mm. A view from the side of the river looking along the bridge, which has steel supports and girders.

138 x 82 mm. A view from above looking down on the iron girder railway bridge, part of the Newcastle to Sydney system, which was opened in 1889. It was also the final link in the railway system, which now extended from Brisbane to Adelaide, via Melbourne and Sydney. The bridge was designed by John Whitton and was the largest in the Southern Hemisphere. It was situated in New South Wales.

About this time Kelsey changed from the Western Australia Railway to the Trans-Australian Railway at Kalgoorlie.

About this time Kelsey changed from the Western Australia Railway to the Trans-Australian Railway at Kalgoorlie.

229 x 190 mm. A view of part of the Lithgow zig-zag, the engineering feat of John Whitton which allowed the railway to descend on a manageable gradient from the Blue Mountains. For a fine panorama of the Lithgow zig-zag, and more detail on its construction see Y3086E/51.

233 x 181 mm. A view of another section of the Lithgow zig-zag.

199 x 147 mm. A view looking along a wharf, on both sides of which steamers and sailing ships are moored, with a railway line along the pier. Williamstown is at the extremity of a curving spit of land which forms the Western Half of Hobson’s Bay and extends out into Port Phillip.

260 x 205 mm. View from a hill behind the station, showing covered platform with a passenger train in the station, and a goods train just outside. Two pony cabs wait alongside the platform. The first section of railway in Queensland was from Ipswich to Bigges Camp (now Grandchester) and was opened on 31st July 1865. Brisbane, however, was not connected to the railway system until 1875.

230 x 160 mm. A view of the station buildings, with a pony and trap outside.

260 x 200 mm. A view of the station from the line, showing several locomotives, with signals and sidings. Adelaide’s first railway station was built in 1856, but that building was incorporated into the larger station seen here in about 1876.

235 x 180 mm. Photograph shows the raised line of a metal girder bridge crossing the Condamine

345 x 262 mm. A good view of the interior of a railway workshop, showing partially-constructed locomotives at the right of the picture, workmen posing for the camera in the centre, and a row of small furnaces at the left for metal working. Across the roof of the workshop a movable gantry and crane is positioned.

346 x 262 mm. A view of a part of the railway workshops. On either side are small metal working furnaces and workers posing for the camera, with a central railway line leading up to machinery, possibly some kind of steam hammer or rivetter.

341 x 262 mm. An interior view of a railway workshop, showing workers posing with their tools.

350 x 274 mm. A view looking down on to railway sidings, with freight wagons filled with coal, and wharves and the harbour beyond. The goods station is Illawarra, lying south of the harbour.

The bookmark appears to bear no signature.

A view showing the American flag being raised on a small hill behind the harbour. With official personnel at the base of the flagpole, and building work going on in the foreground of the picture. Presumably taken on 16th February 1900. Print number 53.

285 x 230 mm. The picture is slightly blurred through camera movement. The third in a sequence of three photographs of this ceremony (see Y3084A/37 and 23) and shows the Union Jack being raised, while the officers party remove their hats.

351 x 265 mm. A view from the river bank looking along the bridge. Additional information on the caption states: ‘This is a combined road and railway bridge over the River Rakaia, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, on the main trunk line between Christchurch and Dunedin. The total length, 4,480 feet, made up of 224 spans of 20 feet each. The first contract was let on the 7th October, 1869, and the bridge was completed for railway traffic on 29th May, 1873; cost, about £36,000’.

Contains Kodachrome slides, processed in Australia and arranged by processing number.

Contains Kodachrome slides, processed in Australia and arranged by processing number.

Contains Kodachrome slides, processed in Australia and arranged by processing number.

270 x 220 mm. A view of the settlement near the start of its life. In the centre is a log cabin surrounded by a wooden fence, with others behind, and to its left the framework of another cabin in the process of construction. With scattered figures watching the camera.