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By Muscle of Man & Horse: Building the Railway Under Sydney 1916-1932 (AANS-049)

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Product No.: AANS-049
Title: By Muscle of Man & Horse: Building the Railway Under Sydney 1916-1932
Author(s): Phippen, Bill
Illustrator(s): N/A
Publisher: A.R.H.S (NSW Division)
ISBN: 9780987340870
Condition: New
Binding: Soft Cover
Dust Jacket: None
Edition: 1st Edition
Publication Year: 2018

Features: 528 Pages with Black/White Photos.

- The new electric railway for Sydney, opened in 1926, was at the cutting edge of technology in its day, and still serves the city well nearly a hundred years later. Building underground railways in the 1920s was however a process very dependent on men and horses, supplemented by tiny lorries, two steam shovels and just 14 electric cranes.

- Only the mighty Bucyrus dragline which did the bulk excavation for St James would rank as a machine remotely appropriate to the earth-moving task in hand. The engineers who ran the project were constantly challenged to devise work methods to ensure that the limitations of their tools could be manipulated to get the job done.

- A selection of 1500 high quality scans, some only recently re-discovered in a Sydney Trains locker during a re-location, illustrate the speaker's contentions.