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Hotel and Pavillion Spiers [Speers] Point, Lake Macquarie. [before trams]
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…[before trams] … Photo Ref: 540 … Creator: Dews, Mr Wilf … Published by C E Hulse, Stationer ,Wallsend.…
Coffee Pot, Steam Tram No.1, Toronto
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…Media … Coffee Pot, Steam Tram No.1, Toronto … Photo Ref: 3599 … This work by Lake Macquarie City Library is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License … Related search terms … toronto … transport by rail…
Steam tram at the old wharf, Toronto. Photograph taken c.1891
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…Media … Steam tram at the old wharf, Toronto.…
Steam Tram, Speers Point (introduced 1912, ceased 1930's)
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…Media … Steam Tram, Speers Point (introduced 1912, ceased 1930's) … Photo Ref: 3639 … This work by Lake Macquarie City Library is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License … Related search terms … speers point … transport by rail…
1931 Parish map showing Jersey Street and Hampden Street making up the main street either side of the tram line which runs down the centre.
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…Media … 1931 Parish map showing Jersey Street and Hampden Street making up the main street either side of the tram line which runs down the centre. … Photo Ref: 25771 … This work by Lake Macquarie City Library is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License…
Toronto-Fassifern Rail Line
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…The Newcastle Herald reported … Upon arrival at Fassifern they were met by the company's tram, and the distance to Toronto was covered in six minutes.……The Newcastle Herald reported … Upon arrival at Fassifern they were met by the company's tram, and the distance to Toronto was covered in six minut…
The Stone Road in Argenton
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…Image 9 Steam tram at the old wharf, Toronto. Photograph taken c.1891. Note the use of stone for the retaining wall of the old wharf, yet it is not used for the wharf path nor for any of the groundwork surrounding the tram tracks. … Image 10 Steam Tram, 'Pygmy', Toronto.……Image 9 Steam tram at the…
Opening of West Wallsend Tramway
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…Media … Opening of West Wallsend Tramway … Photo Ref: 4502 … Creator: Snowball, Mr Ralph … Tram line construction started April 1909. Service opened 19th December 1910. The tram service was popular and generally uneventful except for a couple of derailments, in one of which the tram driver was killed.……The…
Argenton
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…Early Transport: … In 1912 the steam tram line to Speers Point was opened. The line ran down the centre of what is now the main street but at that time it was a double avenue, Hampden Avenue on the east of the line and Jersey Avenue on the west.……The steam tram gave Argenton transport connections with…
Transport: Lake Macquarie - the way it was. Oral History
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…Oral History … Topics covered in this recording … different methods of transport … trams and trains … history of the Ambulance Service … Reference … Lake Macquarie City Library 1982, Transport, Lake Macquarie City Library, Lake Macquarie [N.S.W.]……Oral History … Topics covered in this recording … different…

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