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Albury (inhabited place)

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

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Albury Station, exterior, 1872 - 1895

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086E/2
Scope and Contents 344 x 261 mm. A view of the station buildings and entrance, with railway officials and a horse cab standing in front of the station. Opened in January 1881: 'It was built at the end of Smollett Street ... The handsomest structure of its kind in the Colony. It is constructed of red and white bricks of exceptionally excellent manufacture, dressed with cement and surmounted by a clocktower 80 feet high' (NSW Registrar-General's Office 1886, p.98).Albury lies in the far south of New...
Dates: 1872 - 1895
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Albury Station, platform and lines, 1887

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086E/3
Scope and Contents

345 x 262 mm. A view looking along the station platform, with railway employees posing for the photographer, and other workers gathered around a locomotive on the line.

Dates: 1887
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Murray River Lattice Girder Bridge, Albury, 1887

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086E/1
Scope and Contents

346 x 262 mm. A view showing the iron girder bridge across the Murray, with one man standing on the river bank and two railway workers on a trolley on the line itself. The temporary rail bridge can be partially seen behind the new bridge, which was built in 1884 during John Whitton's period as Engineer-in-Chief.

Dates: 1887
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Union Bridge, Murray River, Albury, 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086F/9
Scope and Contents

275 x 215 mm. A view of the bridge from the river bank, with three spans of 80 feet built of iron girders, resting on two wooden supporting structures. With the 17 approach spans, not visible in the picture, the total length of the bridge was 630 feet.

Dates: 1885
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Union Bridge, Murray River, Albury, 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086F/11
Scope and Contents

92 x 55 mm. A view of the bridge from the river bank.

Dates: 1885
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).