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Trains and trams

583 photos1858–1997

583 historic photos for Trains and trams, taken between 1858 and 1997, gathered from across the suburbs by what their catalogue titles say. They span 15 decades, with the most from the 1930s (144). They come from Wikimedia Commons; each photo’s page gives its credit, its licence and a link to its original record.

1850s 1 1860s 2 1870s 13 1880s 37 1890s 17 1900s 75 1910s 50 1920s 68 1930s 144 1940s 54 1950s 66 1960s 34 1970s 15 1980s 5 1990s 2

1940s41 photos

Central Station, 19441944Dinner to Austin Diamond Railway Refreshment Room, 19441944Museum Station, Sydney, 1940s1940sBENNELONG POINT Sydney Harbour 1940s1940sTram stop at Alexandria post office 1940s1940sConstruction of locomotive C3806 at the Eveleigh Workshops, 19451945The Brides Train 1945, c. 1945c. 1945Railway Station - Stanmore, 19451945Preparing for a test run, c. 1945c. 1945Locomotive construction, 19451945Building a locomotive, 19451945Hawkesbury River Railway Bridges 1st & 2nd circa 1945, c. 1945c. 1945Merrylandscrash1, 19451945Railway Square, ca. 1945, c. 1945c. 1945An Austin parcels tractor transporting luggage at Central Railway Station, Sydney (NSW), c. 1946c. 1946Wynyard (?) Railway Refreshment Room, c. 1946c. 1946Central Station milk bar, 19461946Service with a smile, 1946, c. 1946c. 1946Dining room at Wynyard Station, 19461946Luggage transport at Sydney, 19461946Railway Refreshment Room - Wynyard, 19461946Railway Refreshment Room - Wynyard, 19461946Lions head at police station, 19461946Aerial view of Central Railway Station, Sydney (NSW), c. 1947c. 1947A model of P Class locomotive number 356, 1907–881907–88Indicator boards at Wynyard old1, 19481948All out, all change! Wynyard, 1948, c. 1948c. 1948Central Railway Station, Sydney - mobile buffet service, 19481948Central Railway Station Refreshment Room, Sydney - dining room, 19481948Derailment at Eastwood, 19481948Cafe on wheels, 19481948Train derailment at Eastwood, c. 1948c. 1948Taking the train - Wynyard, c. 1948c. 1948Mobile buffet service - Sydney, 19481948Last run to rockdale 19491949The Hotel Metropole, Sydney (1949) as photographed from Bent Street, looking towards Farrer Place and Young Street1949Police station, Pyrmont, 1949 slnsw1949Erskine Street Tram, Double Bay, 19491949Railway Ambulance Corp State Shield Ambulance Competition at Telopea (NSW), c. 1949c. 1949NSWGR 58 Class, 19491949Railway crane Darling Harbour, 19491949

1950s19 photos

Railway Station - Emu Plains, 1950, c. 1950c. 1950Kings Cross Sydney 1950 colour1950Locomotive test run, 19501950Bustling Sydney, 19501950First train from Newcastle after strike ends, 19501950Kurrajong station sign, 19501950Tram on the corner of Pitt and Park St, 19501950Kings Cross Sydney 19501950Rozelletram, 19511951Railway Station - Martin Place old1, 19511951Trial trip of new Commonwealth Railways diesel electric locomotive GM1 built by Clyde Engineering at Clyde, 195119511952 Randwick Racecourse Sydney Tramway Exit Bridge19526002 trial Nth Strath, 19521952Electric toastrack trams at Circular Quay (NSW), c. 1952c. 1952Tram accident at Taronga Park Zoo, c. 1952c. 1952Big crane to lift tram lines, 19521952Civic power station, 19521952Civic power station, 19521952First goods train gets through submerged portion, 19521952
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