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UBD community business & street directory. Western District.

Street & community business directory. Western District.

The collection comprises subject files, photographs, research notes, maps and printed material relating to tramways and railways around Australia. The subject files typically contain: photographic prints from various sources, mounted on pages or loose, mostly uncaptioned; photographs copied or cut from books, magazines and newspapers; typescript articles; individual issues of Australasian Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletins; hand-drawn and printed maps. Many files also contain loose pages from other files.

BOX 1
Subject files: 
Toronto
Forster
NSW Tramways steam trailers standard type Book 1
NSW Tramways steam trailers standard type Book 2
NSW Tramways steam trailers old type Book 1
NSW Tramways tram motors original Book 2
NSW Tramways tram motors rebuilt Book 1
NSW Tramways tram motors rebuilt Book 2
[Berrima and Mittagong]

BOX 2
Subject files:
Abermain
Kurri Kurri Book 1
Weston
West Wallsend
Byron Bay
Private railways of NSW opened for general traffic
NSW cable tramways Sydney and suburban
Broken Hill [street trams]
[Newcastle, Sydney and suburban]

BOX 3
Subject files:
NSW Tramways sundry lines
Sydney and suburban [tramways] Book 1A
Sydney and suburban [tramways] Book 1B
NSW Census Part V, 1961
NSW Tramways tram motors original Book 1
NSW Tramways Sydney and suburban horse lines
Sydney and suburban [tramways] western suburbs lines Book 2
Sydney and suburban [tramways] Enfield lines Book 4B

Steam Tram and Railway Preservation (Co Op) Society Annual Reports, 1972, 1973-1974
Broadbelt list of Baldwin locomotive photographs
Draft study paper on Baldwin 0-4-0 ST’s 3’6” gauge Class 4-10 1/2c
Photocopies of working timetable Broken Hill 1 Apr 1910 and Maitland 31 Oct 1921
Port Kembla industrial

BOX 4
Subject files:
NSW Tramways electric stock
Cessnock
Camben
Windsor
Coffs Harbour
[Steam trains of Sydney] including loose notes on Moruya quarries
[NSW North Coast]
Mittagong

BOX 5
Subject files:
NSW Tramways sundry Illawarra District lines steam
Warnambool
Kembla Heights
NSW Tramways Kurri Kurri lines steam
NSW Tramways Scarborough lines steam
Sundry tramways Sydney and suburban Book 1
Mackay

Printed material:
The Great Southern Railway / K. Macrae Bowden (photocopy), no date
Australasian Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletins, Jan 1947-Jun 1948
Commerce in Congress, 1909
The Jubilee History of Parramatta / Edited by J. Cheyne Wharton, 1911

BOX 6
Subject files:
Moruya and Narooma
Menindee
Portland
New Zealand [and overseas] tramways
Kiama (includes Gregory’s Wollongong and Suburbs street directory 1st edition)
Dapto
Wollongong
Burrinjuck
Stroud
Ballina (no papers)

Printed material:
Newcastle Tramways – expansion proposals in all directions / K. McCarthy, draft article, 198-?
Transport and Communication Bulletin No. 16 / Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics, 1925

BOX 7
Subject files:
NSW Private Railways Northern sections
NSW Private Railways North Coast line and branches
Private Railways of NSW Illawarra District
Unanderra
NSW Private Railways West Wallsend and Charlestown sections
Hexham-Minmi and Pelaw Main railways – J. and A. Brown No. 1
Hexham-Minmi and Pelaw Main railways – J. and A. Brown, Abermain Seaham Collieries Ltd No. 2
The railways of the South Maitland coalfields Book 1 

BOX 8
Australasian Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletins, Oct 1937-Dec 1945

BOX 9
Australasian Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletins, Jan-Dec 1946

Subject files: 
Perth and suburban tramways
Cairns
Western Australia public tramways No. 2
Renmark
South Australia
Townsville
Queensland Private Railways – Cairns-Mulgrave railway

BOX 10
Subject files:
Western Australian tramways
Innisfail
Nambour
Tasmanian tramways West Coast districts
Tasmanian tramways Southern districts
Smithton
NSW Tramways Toronto line steam
Kurri Kurri No. 2

Bound lists of steam tram transfers 1894-1913
Folder of correspondence, photographs and other papers relating to tramways and railways, ca. 1973-1983
Goondah Burrinjuck Railway rolling stock
Listing of Gifford H. Eardley Australian Railway and Tramway Collection 
Envelope of water colour paintings of trams
Bundle of black & white photographs grouped by location
Folder of assorted papers

BOX 11
Subject files:
Cobar
NSW private railways
[Tweed Heads]
Gosford
New Guinea
NSW tramways Kendall lines (steam)
New Zealand
South Maitland coalfields railways
The railways of the south Maitland coalfields Book 2
Lithgow
Public passenger trams South Australia
Queensland private railways
NSW tramways Burrinjuck lines (steam)

BOX 12
Subject files:
Mossman
Port Kembla
Geeveston
Rosebery
Hobart and suburban
Launceston
Tasmanian tramways North-West district
Tasmanian tramways North-East district
NSW tramways Yass line (steam) (contains various papers)
Lilydale
Brisbane
Melbourne

UBD Directory of the Cairns & Atherton Tablelands area, 1967

BOX 13
Subject files:
Ingham
Ayr
Forster (contains various papers)
Irvinebank
NSW tramways Harrington lines (steam)
Queensland tramways Central districts
Maryborough
NSW tramways Woolgoolga lines (steam) (contains various papers)
Queensland tramways Southern districts
Beaconsfield
Queensland government railways
Industrial tramways South Australia
NSW tramways Ballina lines (steam)
Waratah
Mount Lyell Co’s railways Queenstown-Regatta Point, Linda-Kelly Basin
Swansea (contains various papers)
[Katoomba]
[Various Victorian lines]
[Murrurundi]
Interstate tramways South Australia Adelaide and suburban (no papers)
Interstate tramways Victoria Melbourne and suburban (no papers)

BOX 14
Subject files:
Tramway rolling stock notes and tables
NSW tramways steam trailers old type No. 2
Kalgoorlie
Cardiff
NSW tramways Woolgoolga lines (steam)
Commonwealth Territory tramways
Interstate railways Tasmania
Interstate railways [South Australia, Western Australia] 
NSW steam tramway rolling stock
Cardiff Young Wallsend Swansea
Steam Train and Railway Preservation (Co-Op) Society annual report 1974-75
[Kurri Kurri, Weston]
Townsville

BOX 15
Research notes, maps, photographs, correspondence and printed material relating to tramways and railways, including draft articles and maps by K. McCarthy, and also including some personal correspondence, ca. 1947-1986
Draft of Gazetteer of Industrial Steam Locomotives Illawarra District / K. McCarthy, 1980
Printed material including Sydney tramway and trolley bus timetables 1929 and souvenir guides

BOX 16
Subject files:
Adelaide
Woonona
Sydney and suburban Book 6
Parramatta Park tramway (largely water colour paintings of trams)
Victorian, Queensland, South Australian, Tasmanian, Commonwealth Territory tramways

When ‘Horse Power’ meant ‘The Horse’ / K. McCarthy
Folder of papers including notes and hand-drawn maps extracted from Boxes 17-28

BOXES 17-20
Various printed New South Wales maps including parish maps, military maps and motorists’ maps

BOXES 21-23
Various printed Queensland maps including parish maps, military maps and motorists’ maps

BOXES 24-25
Various printed Tasmanian maps including parish maps, military maps and motorists’ maps

BOX 26
Various printed Victorian maps including parish maps, military maps and motorists’ maps

BOX 27
Various printed South Australian maps including parish maps, military maps and motorists’ maps

BOX 28
Various printed Western Australia, Northern Territory and Australian Capital Territory maps including parish maps, military maps and motorists’ maps

BOX 29
Notebooks containing research notes, statistics and sketch maps, no date

BOX 30
Notebooks containing research notes, statistics and sketch maps, no date
Australian Rough Diaries, entries written by A. Rigby, 1918-1919 

BOX 31
Parramatta Park Tramway photograph album presented to Cedric Thomas, 1955-1973
Railways and Tramways of West Coast Tasmania photograph album presented to Thomas in 1979
Photographs, negatives and postcards, loose and in envelopes, of rail transport systems, many uncaptioned and undated

BOX 32
Printed material: 
In and around Sydney with the steam train Book 3, 1st, 2nd and 4th editions, edited by C. B. Thomas
Further books and booklets concerning tramways and railways in Australia, New Zealand and Indonesia
Working timetables (8) for various tramways throughout NSW, 1893-1933

BOX 33
Printed material:
Various histories, guides and other publications mainly relating to regional areas of Australia

BOX 34
Mounted photograph of construction area, no caption
The first steam-locomotive used in the Illawarra district of N.S.W., ca. 1870 / drawn by Keith Upton, photographic copy of original drawing
Panoramic photograph of town on riverbank, unidentified
Boxed and loose film negatives and ten glass plate negatives, all unidentified
Two reproduction miniature tram destination scrolls

BOX 35X
Illawarra Light Railway Albion Park poster
Various plans and maps of Sydney terminus and suburban tramway routes
Sorrento, Victoria, contour map, 1931
Four aerial photographs including Cessnock and Woodburn, 1961-1967
Illustrations of Sydney tram front destination signs

Cedric Blake Thomas papers concerning tramways and railways in Australia, ca. 1893-1986

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