С дорогой на Парраматту - по состоянию на 1854 год ее указывают как "находившуюся в постройке", но по стадии строительства встречал разные мнения: то ли успели в значительной мере, но потом затеяли перешивку, то ли не успели. Судя по такому: "New South Wales really didn’t have the first steam engine. The truth is that those bastards on the Yarra Yarra River had the first steam train one year earlier" - у НСВ до сих пор обида на "ублюдков с Ярры".
И вот еще интересное: Mr William Webster of Metropolitan Road, Enmore, NSW, retired from the service in 1892. Following is an interview with the Evening News 1905, on the occasion of the railway’s 50th anniversary. “For six months before the opening of the (Sydney Parramatta) Line, I was fireman of the contractor’s ballast engine - in fact, I was the first fireman appointed. On May 24th, Queen’s Birthday, 1855, four months previous to the opening, we (Sixthsmith and I) took the first passenger train out of Redfern Station. William Sixsmith was the driver. It was a trial run and we had on board Sir William Denison, the Governor, and a few other gentlemen. That journey only extended as far as the Lane Cove Viaduct, near Lewisham. It was actually the first train that was run. http://www.warrenfahey.com/william-webster/
Судя по такому: "New South Wales really didn’t have the first steam engine. The truth is that those bastards on the Yarra Yarra River had the first steam train one year earlier" - у НСВ до сих пор обида на "ублюдков с Ярры".
И вот еще интересное:
Mr William Webster of Metropolitan Road, Enmore, NSW, retired from the service in 1892. Following is an interview with the Evening News 1905, on the occasion of the railway’s 50th anniversary.
“For six months before the opening of the (Sydney Parramatta) Line, I was fireman of the contractor’s ballast engine - in fact, I was the first fireman appointed. On May 24th, Queen’s Birthday, 1855, four months previous to the opening, we (Sixthsmith and I) took the first passenger train out of Redfern Station. William Sixsmith was the driver.
It was a trial run and we had on board Sir William Denison, the Governor, and a few other gentlemen. That journey only extended as far as the Lane Cove Viaduct, near Lewisham. It was actually the first train that was run.
http://www.warrenfahey.com/william-webster/
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