• Title
  Commonwealth Oil Shay locomotive no.2 - Newnes, NSW
• Call number
  At Work and Play - 03415
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  [1908-1940]
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  391455
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Catalogued using information collected during the New South Wales bicentennial copying of photographs project, 1986.
• General note
  
  Commonwealth Oil Company Shay No.2 on the line from Newnes Junction to Newnes near Lithgow. The train is at the locomotive depot which was about half a mile north of Newnes Junction, and is heading toward Newnes Junction. The COC locos were the only standard gauge Shay locos imported into Australia. For other photographs of the COC Shay locos see: The Shale Railways of NSW / G.H. Eardley and E.M. Stephens. Sydney : Australian Railway Historical Society, New South Wales Division, 1974 (later ed. 2000) -- Information supplied by C.Stratton (Aug 2006)
  See also: "Locomotives once used on the Wolgan Valley Railway", Information about Newnes, New South Wales, Australia (online website)
  Date based on the working life of no.2 at Newnes: 1907-1940
  Loco depot, Newnes Junction, dated ca. 1917 (between 1910-1920) -- Information supplied by A.F. Watson (Nov 1989)
  Previously titled: During the drought, taking water to Cobar - Nyngan, NSW
  Digital order no:bcp_03415
• Alphanumeric designations
  
  Original item no. BCP 03415
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Inscription on back of photo reads: [sic] "This picture was taken during one drought, my father can be seen on the side of the engine, he was helping taking water to Cobar. I do not know how many times a week, but what a dreadful time the people at Cobar had, having to rely on those trains to bring water to them. Thank goodness those days are past. The old wood-burning engines played a big part in those early days and could get up considerable speed across the plains. One particular driver, by name of Beverley, nick-named "Hell Fire Jack" could get more speed out of those old engines than anyone else. An old chap I knew worked as fettler up that way about that time, they had to camp in tents and would ask the driver to bring out bread for them and arranged a spot where it would be thrown off and the fettlers could pick it up, but it seems if "Hell Fire Jack" was driving they often had to go without bread. The speed he would be travelling would land the bread anywhere, and this ... - Nyngan, NSW
• Name
  Commonwealth Oil Refineries Ltd.
  
• Topic
  goods trains
  locomotives
  steam trains
  
• Place
  Newnes (N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1664104

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