Mural in Sydney Rd

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Mal Rowe

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Nov 13, 2023, 7:53:45 PM11/13/23
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I have posted a pic of the mural in Sydney Rd opposite the Merri Bek
city hall before, but this view - from the Council building - gives a
better view.

A W and a kangaroo - does that make it too iconic?

Mal Rowe - proud denizen of the Peoples Republic of Merri Bek
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Jeremy Wainwright

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Nov 13, 2023, 10:11:44 PM11/13/23
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On a brief visit to Melbourne in July, I resigned myself, on account of dreary weather, to a day of car-riding, with little or no photographic ambition. Approaching the railway bridge at Hartwell on my way out to Vermont South, I made the mental note to try for a tram + train shot there some time when conditions were more favourable. Then I saw the mural! Fearing its removal or defacement before I would get another opportunity, I resolved to get the shot, 'weather or no', on my return from the terminus. Taking a leaf out of the late lamented Yuri's book,  I set my camera on continuous and, 2 Up cars and 1 Down car (and 56 exposures) later, I managed this shot showing a distinctively NSW-style steam loco in the company of B2.2014. Waiting for the next Up car to take me back toward the city, I dropped my guard and missed out on an 'unbombed' shot of that car below a passing train. Moral: no matter how tired, etc., you are, keep your camera at the ready when you're 'at work'.

JWW 

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Hunslet

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Nov 13, 2023, 11:41:50 PM11/13/23
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“3124” is possibly meant to be 3624!

Hunslet.

Jeremy Wainwright

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Nov 14, 2023, 12:23:44 AM11/14/23
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Yes, definitely more Pig than P.

JWW
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Tony Galloway

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Nov 14, 2023, 3:14:21 AM11/14/23
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Great pic.

3124 was an S class tank engine. I dunno if it was one of many cut down to a 30T tender engine or spent its existence as built.

An S class tank would qualify as a steam tram motor as they worked the Camden line in its final years.

Tony

Hunslet

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Nov 14, 2023, 6:53:26 AM11/14/23
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3124 would have been an S-class 4-6-4 tank engine!

Jeremy Wainwright

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Nov 14, 2023, 5:06:55 PM11/14/23
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Oh, dear! I misread the number that you quoted.

JWW
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Mal Rowe

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Nov 14, 2023, 6:01:56 PM11/14/23
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On 14/11/2023 15:41, Hunslet wrote:

“3124” is possibly meant to be 3624!


Nice picture.


3124 is the postcode of Hartwell.


Mal Rowe

Jeremy Wainwright

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Nov 14, 2023, 9:08:28 PM11/14/23
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Thanks for the explanation!

JWW
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