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Engineering Heritage Australia OFFICIAL REGISTER OF ENGINEERING HERITAGE MARKERS – IN DATE ORDER Abbreviations CFPP Centenary of Federation “Plaquing” Program 2001 EHNL Engineering Heritage National Landmark (from 2009) EHM Engineering Heritage Marker (from 2009) EHNM Engineering Heritage National Marker (replacing EHNL from 2011) EHIM Engineering Heritage International marker (from 2012) EHP Engineering Heritage Plaque awarded by Sydney Division HLAE Historic Landmark of Agricultural Engineering (Program superseded after one marker) HEM Historic Engineering Marker (to 2008) NEL National Engineering Landmark (to 2008) IP Information Marker (placed with a NEL) IHCEL International Historic Civil Engineering Landmark (awarded by American Society of Civil Engineers) Notes: From January 2009, the word "plaque" was superseded by "marker". Where “markers” are mentioned for NELs, it refers to the marker and the information plaque used with NELs. Name on Marker Location of Work Original Alteration/ Change Division Marker Year (completion/operation) Location of Marker in italics marker date addition date Type Sugar Cane Harvesters Bourbong Street, Bundaberg QLD Aug-84 QLD HLAE 1960- Marker at entrance to Buss Park. The only HLAE marker. No machine on display. Furphy Water Cart Wyndah Street, Shepparton VIC Oct-85 VIC HEM 1878- Marker at John Pick Reserve, Shepparton, Vic. McKay Smithy Scienceworks, Booker Street, Spotswood VIC Oct-85 VIC HEM 1885- Smithy & marker dismantled & stored 1991 Ridley Stripper, First Mechanical Grain Adelaide SA Aug-86 New interp 13 Sept SA HEM Harvester No machines of original type remain. panel and 2014 1843- Marker originally at Roseworthy Agricultural marker College, now missing. New interpretation panel & marker at northern end of the Sir William Goodman Bridge, Adelaide, placed on 13 September 2014 Winding Engine No. 756, Gympie Historical & Gold Mining Museum, Gympie QLD Aug-86 QLD HEM 1899- Marker inside engine house. Official Register of Engineering Heritage Markers – in date order Engineering Heritage Australia NOVEMBER 2017 page 1 of 22 Name on Marker Location of Work Original Alteration/ Change Division Marker Year (completion/operation) Location of Marker in italics marker date addition date Type Lansdowne Bridge by Lennox Bridge Reserve, Hume Highway, Prospect Creek, Nov-86 SYD NEL 1835- Carramar NSW Markers on south-east corner of bridge parapet Coolgardie Goldfields Water Supply Mundaring Weir to Kalgoorlie WA (560 km) Sep-87 IHCEL Oct-09 WA NEL Scheme Marker and plaque at Mundaring Weir's C Y IHCEL 1903- O'Connor memorial, Cunderdin Shire Museum & Mt. Charlotte Reservoir, Kalgoorlie Smith's Stump-Jump Plough National Trust Museum, Ardrossan SA Nov-87 SA HEM 1876- Marker on exterior wall of museum Busby's Bore Centennial Park to Hyde Park South, Sydney NSW Apr-88 SYD NEL 1837- Markers at shaft, Army Museum, Victoria Barracks and on Water Board obelisk, Centennial Park Sydney Harbour Bridge Sydney NSW Apr-88 SYD NEL, IHCEL 1932- NEL Marker on eastern parapet wall of Pylon Lookout, SE pylon of the bridge. IHCEL plaque on the eastern wall of the SE pylon adjacent to the walkway Story Bridge, Brisbane River Capt. Burke Park, Kangaroo Point, Brisbane QLD May-88 QLD HEM 1940- Marker on south main pier in park Howard's Rotary Hoe University of Western Sydney, Richmond NSW Sep-88 SYD HEM 1912- Marker at Stable Square, UWS Angle Vale Bridge, Gawler River Angle Vale SA Nov-88 SA HEM 1876- Marker at northern end of bridge, marker OK as at July 2015 Princess Royal Battery & Magazine Mt Adelaide, Albany WA (3 km east of CBD) Nov-88 WA HEM 1892- Plaque at entrance to underground magazine Tamworth Street Lighting Plant Power Station Museum, Peel St, Tamworth NSW Nov-88 NEW HEM 1888- Marker in original power house building Newcastle Harbour Hunter River mouth, Newcastle NSW Jul-89 NEW NEL 1850- Markers on foreshore opposite Customs House Inaugural Meeting Place of IEAust 5 Elizabeth Street, Sydney NSW Oct-89 SYD EHP 1919- Marker in footpath outside. Official Register of Engineering Heritage Markers – in date order Engineering Heritage Australia NOVEMBER 2017 page 2 of 22 Name on Marker Location of Work Original Alteration/ Change Division Marker Year (completion/operation) Location of Marker in italics marker date addition date Type Darlington Point Bridge, Darlington Point, NSW (entrance to caravan park) Nov-89 SYD HEM Murrumbidgee River, 1905- Marker on re-erected bridge towers Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric South East NSW Aug-90 IHCEL Aug-97 SYD NEL Scheme Markers at Tumut 3 Power Station near Talbingo. IHCEL 1949-74 (Date on IP is 1989). Cowra Bridge Truss, Lachlan River Cowra NSW Sep-90 SYD HEM 1893- Timber truss on display in adjacent park until 2000 when Council removed truss and marker. NSW. Replaced by interpretive sign November 2002. Fremantle Harbour Fremantle WA Dec-90 WA NEL 1892- Marker near C Y O’Connor statue, outside Fremantle Port Authority Building. Richmond Bridge, Coal River Richmond TAS. Apr-91 TAS HEM 1825- Marker in approach wall, township end. Pyrmont Bridge Darling Harbour, Sydney NSW Jun-92 SYD NEL 1902- Markers on light base at southern western corner Goolwa - Port Elliot Railway Encounter Bay SA Oct-92 SA HEM 1854- Markers at Esplanade, Victor Harbour; Port Elliot railway station; Signal Point, Goolwa. King's Bridge, South Esk River Launceston TAS Oct-92 TAS HEM 1864- Marker on parapet at northern end of bridge Lithgow Blast Furnace Blast Furnace Park, Inch Street, Lithgow NSW Oct-92 Marker May-04 SYD HEM 1906-28 Note: Damaged marker corrected & replaced replacement Marker on part of ruins at Blast Furnace Park with correction Great Zig Zag, Lithgow Zig Zag, Lithgow NSW Oct-92 SYD NEL 1869- Markers on Bottom Points platform Hampden Bridge, Murrumbidgee River Murrumbidgee River, Wagga Wagga NSW Feb-93 SYD HEM 1895- Marker at city end of bridge (To be checked – bridge demolished 2014) Annandale Sewer Aqueducts Johnston's and White's Creeks, Annandale, Sydney Oct-93 SYD HEM 1896- NSW Markers on piers at each creek Official Register of Engineering Heritage Markers – in date order Engineering Heritage Australia NOVEMBER 2017 page 3 of 22 Name on Marker Location of Work Original Alteration/ Change Division Marker Year (completion/operation) Location of Marker in italics marker date addition date Type Prospect Dam Prospect Reservoir, Sydney NSW Apr-94 SYD HEM 1888- Markers at: Prospect Dam, horseshoe wall at start of the lower canal, & valve house at lower canal. Spotswood Pumping Station Scienceworks, Booker Street, Spotswood VIC Apr-94 VIC HEM 1897-1965 Marker at entrance to pump house Eastern Suburbs Railway, Sydney Connecting Erskineville, Redfern, Central, Town Jun-94 SYD EHP Hall and Martin Place stations and thence to Bondi Junction, Sydney NSW Marker at Martin Place Station concourse wall Harricks Auditorium Ground floor, 8 Thomas St, Chatswood NSW Jun-94 SYD EHP (moved from Milsons Point in 2006). Marker on wall of auditorium Sydney Tower Market Street, between Pitt and Castlereagh Jun-94 SYD EHP 1981- Streets, Sydney NSW Marker location unknown after removal from observation level when ownership changed. Medlow Bath Dam Greaves Creek, Medlow Bath, Katoomba NSW Jul-94 SYD HEM 1907- (1 km east). Marker on dam crest Lewisham Railway Viaduct Long Cove Creek, Longport Street, Lewisham, Oct-94 SYD HEM 1886- Sydney NSW Marker on bridge pier near trusses on display Perth Wireless Station Ardross, Perth WA Oct-94 WA HEM 1912-67 Plaque on pillar outside Telecommunications Museum, Wireless Hill, Applecross, Perth Jervois Bridge, remnant Port Adelaide SA (at Nile St [east] Car Park) Oct-94 SA HEM 1878-1979 Marker at east side of Bridge Keepers Gallery Locomotive 3801 Eveleigh Railway Workshops, Redfern NSW Nov-94 SYD HEM 1943-64 Markers on locomotive and in lounge car Ultimo Power House Powerhouse Museum, Ultimo, Sydney NSW Nov-94 SYD HEM 1899-1963 Marker on outside wall, Level 1, eastern courtyard. Waddamana 'A' Power Station Waddamana TAS Feb-95 TAS NEL 1916- Markers at entrance to power station. Official Register of Engineering Heritage Markers – in date order Engineering Heritage Australia NOVEMBER 2017 page 4 of 22 Name on Marker Location of Work Original Alteration/ Change Division Marker Year (completion/operation) Location of Marker in italics marker date addition date Type Tharwa Bridge, Murrumbidgee River Tharwa ACT Mar-95 CAN HEM 1895- Marker on pier at south end of bridge proper. Grenfell Street Power Station & 253 Grenfell Street, Adelaide SA Apr-95 SA HEM East Terrace Converter Stations Marker at NE corner of building 1901-67 Cataract Dam , Cataract River Near Appin NSW Apr-95 SYD NEL 1907- Markers on dam crest at right abutment Cairncross Graving Dock Thynne Street, Morningside, Brisbane QLD Aug-95 QLD HEM 1944-1987, 1995- Marker on outer wall of old boiler house Bendigo Gas Works Weeroona Ave, Bendigo VIC Sep-95 VIC HEM 1860-1973 Marker on front wall of gasworks cottage Denison Bridge, Bathurst Berry Park, Bathurst NSW Nov-95 SYD HEM 1870-1993 Marker defaced, relocated to where? Headlie Taylor Header Henty Memorial Park, Henty NSW Nov-95 SYD HEM Marker on display stand near Culcairn Railway Stn Wagga Wagga Railway Lattice Bridge Wagga Wagga NSW Nov-95 SYD HEM and Viaducts, Murrumbidgee River Marker beside Tarcutta St underpass 1880- Urrbrae House Refrigerator and Waite Campus, University of Adelaide, Claremont Apr-96 SA HEM Cold Rooms Road, Nertherby SA (public tour available). 1895- Marker at front door of Urrbrae House. Jenolan Caves Engineering Works Jenolan Caves near Oberon NSW Sep-96 SYD HEM 1897- Marker near Blue Lake track near Grand Arch Rottnest Island Lighthouse and Rottnest Island WA Sep-96 WA HEM Signal Station Plaque at lighthouse. 1848, 1896 No EHA interpretation panel Honeysuckle Point Railway Workshops Newcastle Museum, Newcastle NSW Oct-96 NEW HEM 1885- Marker on ormer Locomotive Boiler Shop eastern wall.
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