IMAGE
Coal tubs on cable roperoad railway
- Date
- ca 1905
- Reference
- PA1-o-990-12
- Description
View of the coal tubs on a cable roperoad railway. This was the last in a series of roperoads linking the mines to the bins at the incline brakehead at Denniston. Three women are standing by the tubs which are stationary. Photographed by an unknown photographer in about 1905
Source of descriptive information - Les Wright identified the ropeway as the last in a series linking the mines to the the bins at the Denniston brakehead.
Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Tramway
Coal was delivered from the bins at Denniston to Conns Creek, down the incline, in large railway wagons.
Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Physical Description: Silver gelatin print
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Humphreys, W :Photographs of the Westport Coal Company's operation at Denniston / The Denniston incline and its technology
- Format
- 1 b&w original photographic print(s), Photographs, Silver gelatin print
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