Circa 1925 - "Como bridge from Sydney side with guantlet track (2 sets of rails together) with train of end platform cars hauled by tank locomotive", Sydney, New South Wales, Australia" (restored duotone version)

IMAGE INFO
- This higher resolution zoomed view is looking south-south-east from the north (Oatley) side of the Georges River (from left to right of pic) the entrance to Carina Bay, across the Como Pleasure Grounds, the Como Boatsheds, Georges River Bridge & Illawarra Railway line at Como Station.
- All the hill at the right of pic (lying to the west of the railway line) later became the leafy garden suburb of Como West (where I would spend most of my early formative years in the 50s & 60s - great memories!)
- The railway line winds into the distance towards the suburb of Jannali & beyond to Sutherland & further south to Wollongong.
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SOURCE INFO
- This is an enlargement (higher resolution) & restoration of a digitized original in the Buckland Collection of railway transport photographs at the National Library of Australia.
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CREDITS
- The Buckland Collection for the original photo.
- The National Library of Australia for their valuable work in digitizing & archiving these rare historical records.
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COPYRIGHT STATUS - UNCERTAIN
The original image was never published but date is "uncertain" according to the NLA (however, it is definitely early 1920s, going by the lack of suburban building activity). I believe it should no longer be restricted by any form of Copyright, per the NLA's own Australia Copyright statement below -
nla.gov.au/nla.obj-141555402

"Out of Copyright
Reason for copyright status: Created/Published Date is Before 1955
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
Material type: Photograph
Published status: Unpublished
Government copyright ownership: No Government Copyright Ownership
The National Library of Australia supports creativity, innovation and knowledge-exchange but does not endorse any inappropriate or derogatory use. Please respect indigenous cultural and ethical concerns".
- As for my own work in enlarging & substantially restoring this unique image, the only Copyright(s) I have applied for anyone wishing to use this restored version in any form is by Attribution-Non Commercial Use-No Derivatives.
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PROCESS INFO
- All image restoration work was done using Adobe Photoshop Creative Suite 8.0
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DETAILED HISTORY
From Wikipedia - "The original Como Railway Bridge opened on 26 December 1885 as part of the extension of the Illawarra railway line from Hurstville to Sutherland. It was a single track lattice truss bridge designed by John Whitton, the Chief Engineer of the New South Wales Government Railways. The double tracks converged to a single gauntlet track on the bridge, which enabled trains to cross in either direction without points. When the rest of the line was duplicated, it became a major bottleneck.

Between 1935 and 1942, the Metropolitan Water Sewerage & Drainage Board built two 60 centimetre diameter pipelines to pump water from the recently completed Woronora Dam to the reservoir at Penshurst. The pipeline was supported on new steel outriggers cantilevered from the main girders.

Second bridge
To relieve the bottleneck, a new double track reinforced concrete bridge immediately to the west opened on 27 November 1972. The original bridge reopened as a cycleway (& pedestrian path) on 15 December 1985".

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Taken in: Australia / New South Wales / Sydney / Oatley (show map)

Taken on: January 1, 1925

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