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April 2023 LRRSA Members Zoom meeting - Mark Langdon - Mortlake Gasworks

  • 13 Apr 2023
  • 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
  • This meeting will be conducted online using Zoom

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Mark Langdon will present on the following subject:

Mortlake Gasworks

The Mortlake gas works was erected in the late 1880s on a site on the Parramatta River in Sydney and the site had been selected to enable coal to be shipped directly from Newcastle to the gasworks. Initially, a single retort house was erected and, to transport the coal from the wharf to the Retort House, a locomotive was purchased from Hudswell Clarke in the U.K. Eventually, the Mortlake Gasworks would grow to become the largest gasworks in the Southern Hemisphere and seven locomotives were acquired to operate the internal railway system. In 1914, a Telpher system commenced operation at Mortlake to transport the coal, but the internal railway system did nor close until 1948. This lecture will describe both the narrow-gauge railway and the Telpher system used at Mortlake.

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