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This was captured ~70 metres above the location of a bridge that was part of the tramway from Wallsend to Speers Point. The bridge would have been immediately west of the current Frederick Street road bridge, and is the current location of an electricity easement. The line branched just to the north (near Glendale Tafe), with the other branch line heading to West Wallsend. Both were steam tramways, with the line to West Wallsend opening in 1910 and the branch to Speers Point opening in 1912. Both ceased operation in November 1930. The route to Speers Point is now a shared path / cycleway, and the section north of Glendale Tafe is referred to as the 'Tramway Track'.
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There are no kangaroos in Austria. We're talking about Australia, the world's smallest continent. That being cleared up, let's dive right in! Australia is a sovereign state under the Commonwealth of Nations, which is in turn overseen by Queen Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, Queen of Australia and Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth. The continent was first sighted and charted by the Dutch in 1606. Captain James Cook of Britain came along in the next century to claim it for Britain and name it "New South Wales." Shortly thereafter it was declared to be a penal colony full of nothing but criminals and convicts, giving it the crap reputation you may have heard at your last cocktail party. This rumor ignores 40,000 years of pre-European human history, especially the Aboriginal concept of Dreamtime, an interesting explanation of physical and spiritual reality. The two biggest cities in Australia are Sydney and Melbourne. Sydney is more for business, Melbourne for arts. But that's painting in very broad strokes. Take a whirl around the panoramas to see for yourself! Text by Steve Smith.
