Goods train at Katoomba under snow
Notes: little real dating information here - snow this heavy is now rare. The platform dates from 1891 replacing the earlier timber platform of 1881. The 5 ton crane in the background was erected 1884 and is now a heritage item.
The shops on Main Street have been largely unchanged since the 1930s; the goods yard shed in the background dates from 1921; manual handling would be a common sight up to the 1960s when road transport began to significantly impact rail freight; the woman's hemline may suggest 1940s and after.
The goods wagons are similar to those manufactured by Ritchie Bros of Auburn who began as a single blacksmith's forge in 1857 and operated until the late 1950s.
A library patron, Lindsay Paish, who, as a young man, used to shovel coal out of this type of wagon, remarked it was 'bloody hard yakka', and reckons it's 1950s, and the men are unloading coal from Lithgow destined for Katoomba power station.
Kinkara Tea was founded by James Robinson Love, his firm JR Love and Co., had begun blending and marketing packet tea under the trade name Kinkara, a corruption of Kincora, a tea estate in Ceylon. In 1897 Kinkara tea and Mother's Choice flour were registered as brand names and became widely known.
Format: Scanned and optimised B&W photograph
Licensing: Attribution, share alike, creative commons.
Repository: Blue Mountains City Library - library.bmcc.nsw.gov.au/
Part of Local Studies Collection: PF 713
Provenance: donation
Links: adb.anu.edu.au/biography/love-james-robinson-4042
Goods train at Katoomba under snow
Notes: little real dating information here - snow this heavy is now rare. The platform dates from 1891 replacing the earlier timber platform of 1881. The 5 ton crane in the background was erected 1884 and is now a heritage item.
The shops on Main Street have been largely unchanged since the 1930s; the goods yard shed in the background dates from 1921; manual handling would be a common sight up to the 1960s when road transport began to significantly impact rail freight; the woman's hemline may suggest 1940s and after.
The goods wagons are similar to those manufactured by Ritchie Bros of Auburn who began as a single blacksmith's forge in 1857 and operated until the late 1950s.
A library patron, Lindsay Paish, who, as a young man, used to shovel coal out of this type of wagon, remarked it was 'bloody hard yakka', and reckons it's 1950s, and the men are unloading coal from Lithgow destined for Katoomba power station.
Kinkara Tea was founded by James Robinson Love, his firm JR Love and Co., had begun blending and marketing packet tea under the trade name Kinkara, a corruption of Kincora, a tea estate in Ceylon. In 1897 Kinkara tea and Mother's Choice flour were registered as brand names and became widely known.
Format: Scanned and optimised B&W photograph
Licensing: Attribution, share alike, creative commons.
Repository: Blue Mountains City Library - library.bmcc.nsw.gov.au/
Part of Local Studies Collection: PF 713
Provenance: donation
Links: adb.anu.edu.au/biography/love-james-robinson-4042