Rubbish tip found
historic china.
C. Stanton & D. Tuckwell collections.
Dinner Plate c1900
Historic notes:
City and Port Adelaide in 1856.
A report from a 1936 Advertiser said: SAR had grown into one of the indispensable services in this state, a system covering 2,529 miles of track, operated entirely in the interests of and to meet the requirements of the people of South Australia. To those who warm to the thrill of pulsating power, the round house, where engines spend their hours of grooming and girding, is the grimy, clangorous heart of the railway, the centre of all the romance of the road. On spurs which radiate like the threads of a web from a central turntable, are towering Mountains, the embodiment of power, Mikados with hauling capacity in everyline, fleet Pacifics with 6ft. 3in. driving wheels, sturdy, serviceable RX's which have seen two generations of enginemen come and go, yet still taking their daily turn, S types with tall spidery wheels which once held speed records, tank engines for suburban services, and so on down to the tall-stacked shunting hack which has done yard duty so long that it has forgotten the feel of the open metals.
Adelaide, South Australia,
Tuesday, September 1, 1936