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| Title: | Shunting tender at the Clyde railway yards, Sydney |
| Authors: | Ellis, M. William John, photographer |
| Issue Date: | 25-Feb-2004 |
| Series/Report no.: | 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: | Photograph of a number of trains in a yard with a distant view of the city. The tender, the cars connected to the locomotive that carries coal, is in the centre of the tracks. Goods wagons can be seen to the left on more tracks. There is a signal post to the right and many telegraph and power poles. A fence borders the road alongside the yard. Since July 1892, the Clyde rail yards have marshalled locomotives and rolling stock, including suburban tank engines and rail motors. |
| Description: | Inscribed in white on image, l.c.:Clyde 18 (possibly: 15)
inscribed in ink below image, l.c.: CLYDE YARDS/ SHUNTING TENDER
alternative number: K3971
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/1885/211 |
| Appears in Collections: | National Union of Railwaymen of Australia
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