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(c) Tim Rice Lawyer 2013 ABN: 59184761501
General information about our region can be reviewed at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England_(New_South_Wales)
(c) Tim Rice Lawyer 2013 ABN: 59184761501
General information about our region can be reviewed at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England_(New_South_Wales)
2024 February - news of renovations for the Museum www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-04/sydney-powerhouse-museum-shutdown-three-years-renovations/103421286
2023 September - The NSW government budget announcements included a funding commitment of $250 million for the Heritage Revitalisation of the Ultimo Powerhouse museum.
2020 July - The NSW government announced that the Powerhouse Museum - part of the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences (MAAS) will remain open in central Ultimo and operate alongside a new "World Class" facility to be built in Parramatta. Locomotive No. 1 which brought to life the age of land based steam travel in NSW which began in 1885 when this locomotive hauled NSW's 1st train, currently remains on display.
2020 June - Dr Mark Dunn's history of the early settlement of the Hunter Valley is published - "The Convict Valley" - and e.g. at p221 "In November 1831, the new steamship Sophia Jane made her maiden voyage from Sydney to Green Hills (Morpeth) via Newcastle."
2020 March - Australia Post commemorates the 150th anniversary of the Sydney to San Francisco mail steamer service - by releasing a commemorative $1.10 stamp.
"About 90 percent of all electric power produced in the world is through use of steam turbines." (Ref: Wikipedia - power station)
Aspects of contemporary steam turbine technology can be viewed at: www.siemens-energy.com/global/en/offerings/power-generation/steam-turbines.html
2013 September - A "John Fowler steam traction engine built in 1904" is brought to Armidale and later paraded in an Armidale Autumn Festival.
1977 May - Sir Roden Cutler ceremoniously opened Timbertown at Wauchope on the Oxley Highway - with working steam engines on display.
1959 - Judith Wright in "The Generations of Men" writes of her grandfather Albert Andrew Wright travelling on the then new Great Northern Line Train from Guyra in 1888. The steam train took A A Wright on to Brisbane. He then travelled by steamer to Karumba in the cattle country of the Gulf of Carpentaria.
1932 - A photo below is of the last piece of the North Coast Rail Line over the Clarence River. This then became the faster train route from Sydney to Brisbane. It replaced The Great Northern Line via Armidale which had been the main route to Brisbane since 1888.
