Sydney: Central Station from Elizabeth Street
Donald Galt
Tuesday, October 15, 2002 2:56 AM
This is a large file but, I think, worth it for the details.
From "Sydney, A Camera Study", photography by Frank Hurley with text from
various sources. Published by Angus & Robertson in Sydney and London, 1948,
reprinted 1951.
A tram-rich view of Central Station from the north. Below the EMUs of the City
Railway, two trams cross in Elizabeth Street at the corner of Hay Street. To
the right of the viaduct are two more heading north in Castlereagh Street at
Campbell Street, while a block behind is a third which has just come down the
ramp. Behind the columns of the station portico can be spied a fourth.
No trams are on what can be seen of the street-level track in Eddy Avenue,
though a double-decker bus is visible just below the left corner of the
station.
Beyond Eddy Avenue the Elizabeth Street tracks bend right onto Chalmers Street,
and farther up that street a single tram comes towards us near the barrel arch
of the Exhibition building in Prince Alfred Park.
Some time after this scene was shot, the tracks were diverted one block farther
up Elizabeth Street, to turn right at Randle Street near the very top of the
picture.
Don Galt
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From "Sydney, A Camera Study", photography by Frank Hurley with text from
various sources. Published by Angus & Robertson in Sydney and London, 1948,
reprinted 1951.
A tram-rich view of Central Station from the north. Below the EMUs of the City
Railway, two trams cross in Elizabeth Street at the corner of Hay Street. To
the right of the viaduct are two more heading north in Castlereagh Street at
Campbell Street, while a block behind is a third which has just come down the
ramp. Behind the columns of the station portico can be spied a fourth.
No trams are on what can be seen of the street-level track in Eddy Avenue,
though a double-decker bus is visible just below the left corner of the
station.
Beyond Eddy Avenue the Elizabeth Street tracks bend right onto Chalmers Street,
and farther up that street a single tram comes towards us near the barrel arch
of the Exhibition building in Prince Alfred Park.
Some time after this scene was shot, the tracks were diverted one block farther
up Elizabeth Street, to turn right at Randle Street near the very top of the
picture.
Don Galt
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