Photograph - NSWGR 36 Class Locomotive derailment
Production date
23 Feb 1936
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Australia
State/Province
Queensland
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Description
A sepia coloured landscape photograph of a steam locomotive tilted onto its side and derailed from the tracks. The foreground is dominated by the locomotive's tender which is still upright but has jumped off the tracks and the damage to the sleepers immediately underneath the tender. In the background people can be seen observing the scene from wooden footbridges. The locomotive is a New South Wales Government Railways 36 Class and the derailment occured on the standard gauge line near Fairfield Station in Brisbane.
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PHOTOGRAPHS Objects rail transport
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Production date
23 Feb 1936
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History and use
A series of eight small photographs of a locomotive derailment near Fairfield Station in Brisbane in 1936. The locomotive was a NSWGR 36 Class traveling to South Brisbane Station along the standard gauge line to commence the Brisbane - Sydney Express. No one was injured in the accident and the event drew quite an interested crowd.
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R18939
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