19 Class shunting at Darling harbour

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  1. Wolseley

    Wolseley Full Member

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    A few photos I took back in 1971, towards the end of steam in NSW:

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    Toto I'm best ignored Staff Member Founder Administrator

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    That second picture looks very familiar. A certain shot from Gary's industry Lane could quite easily pass for that location.

    nice images.

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    They were, as I recall, just about the only locomotives that could cope with the tight curves in Darling Harbour Goods Yard, which is why some of them managed to last almost 100 years. Four, plus one of the ones converted to a 2-6-4T, have survived.

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    A good video compilation from the National Film and Sound Archive featuring lots of Z19 class locos in Darling Harbour.
     
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    The NFSA has some fascinating stuff on their website. Their newsletter emails are worth subscribing to if you're interested in any aspect of Australian history. Their latest one has footage of early Australian aviators - lesser known ones as well as the likes of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith.

    I've seen the one of Darling Harbour before, but it's one of those videos that's worth viewing several times over. It brings back quite a few memories, as I spent quite a lot of my weekend time watching from the roadside and the bridges back in the late 1960s and early 1970s. I only wish that I was able to spend more money on film back then.....
     
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    Here are a few more photos of Darling Harbour, taken in 1969, 1970 and 1971, including one with a 30T instead of the more usual 19 class. These are all the photos I have, as I was in senior high school at the time and didn't have much money to spend on film. I was using Kodachrome 25 ASA slide film at the time - rather unfortunate, as it was not a film that coped well with the contrast between sunlight and shadow.

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    More great shots. I like how Pyrmont power station with its 4 stacks captures the light, all these sights all consigned to history.
    If memory serves me correctly, and I wasn't around back then! that colour film for everyday people was really only just starting out. The bulk of my parent's slides were taken around this time, and at least 10-20 years ago it was the Kodachrome ones which stood up best, the Agfa and Ilford and the like were pretty disappointing in the way that the colours had changed.
    With a camera in our pockets all the time its so easy to take shots, (that sometimes we might forget as the subject seems so mundane at the time) that we have no excuse to have lots, and no film costs.
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    Agfa CT18 actually gave you better colour than Kodachrome in the short term, was faster (50ASA) and gave you better detail in the shadows. I switched to using Agfa in 1974, a decision I now regret, as Agfa slides faded dramatically after they were about 15 years or so old. Ilford was pretty much the same, but faded earlier than Agfa, and the less said about Anscochrome the better....

    Funnily enough, the best colour I have come across in old slides is Kodachrome from the late 1950s, which gave more realistic colours and better detail than the later Kodachrome and retained it's colours well. At the risk of going off topic, here's a scan of a Kodachrome slide taken by my late father not long after we arrived in Australia in 1958 (Blues Point Road in North Sydney):

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