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| Title: | Engine being taken out of Technical College for 1855 Railway Jubilee, Sydney |
| Date Created: | September 1905 |
| Series: | Material relating to railway matters collected by M.William John Ellis over the period 1898-1949. The series contains press cuttings, 159 photographs and 1 photograph album. |
| Abstract: | The photograph shows a number of men and a boy gathered on and alongside a steam engine on rails. From named portrait photographs of William Ellis, it is possible to identify him as the man standing on a block, second from the left.The rails are mounted on blocks and lead into an arched opening in a brick building.The engine has a cab covered by curved corrugated iron. This engine is the one survivor of the four locomotives ordered by the Sydney Railway Company from Robert Stephenson & Co. of Birmingham, England. The Company had initiated the establishment of railways in NSW, but when in 1855 it got into difficulties, its assets and personnel were taken over by the government.The Railway Jubilee celebrated fifty years of trains in New South Wales. Australia's first steam train made its run from Melbourne's Flinders Street station to Port Melbourne on 12 September 1854 and the first New South Wales railway line, between Sydney and Granville, was opened on 26 September 1855. Some of the profits from the Jubilee exhibition went into the establishment of a gymnasium for the Railway Institute. This was a project promoted by Ellis, who was an Institute Councillor. |
| Description: | Inscribed above image in black and red ink: No. 1. ENGINE BEING TAKEN. OUT. OF TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOR/ 1855 RAILWAY JUBILE (sic) SEPTEMBER 1905
Alternative number: K2036
Ellis entered NSW Railways Service in 1882 and retired May 1924. He was a fitter and turner at the Eveleigh workshops and for 13 years was examining fitter and fitter in charge of the Sydney accident train. His career in the Railways was disrupted by an incident in 1909 when he was dismissed from his position because he had suggested to the NSW Railway Commissioner that some senior officers be removed. Ellis maintained they were negligent in their duties to the safety of the train-travelling public. On 25/3/12 a Select Committee recommended that Ellis be reinstated and compensed for losses. The last was done but Chief Commissioner Johnson did not reinstate him. It was only when Johnson left NSW in 1915 that Ellis was re-employed in the workshops. In July 1926 he was a witness in the coronial inquiry into the Aberdeen railway accident of 10/6/1926. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/204 |
| Appears in Collections: | National Union of Railwaymen of Australia
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