Engineering Heritage Newsletter – June 2011

This is an occasional newsletter from Engineering Heritage Victoria sent to all members on our mailing list. Enquiries, discussion or correspondence related to the Newsletter should be directed to the Editor at [email protected] or address postal correspondence to the Chairman, Engineering Heritage Victoria, Engineers House, 21 Bedford Street, North , Vic 3051.

1. Guest Speakers & Other Functions – 2011

Future Functions:

The Next Talk Will Happen on Thursday 16th June — 5:30 pm refreshments, 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm presentation. Event Title: Early Public Electricity Supply in Melbourne. Speaker: Miles Pierce, FIEAust., CPEng. Host: Engineering Heritage Victoria About the Subject: This presentation, based on a paper presented to the Australasian Engineering Heritage Conference, Dunedin, NZ, 2009, will focus on electricity supply in Melbourne from 1880 to 1920. In 1882 the Australian Electric Company established a small central generating station, taking Melbourne to the vanguard of public electricity supply. Private and publicly owned power stations, including the Spencer Street Power Station, followed over the next few decades. & the Speaker: Miles Pierce is a retired electrical (power) engineer and former Principal Electrical Engineer at GHD Victoria. He has worked on electricity generation, distribution and utilisation projects. Currently Chairing Engineering Heritage Victoria, Miles has had a long term interest in engineering and industrial heritage. To Register (free), go to: https://events.engineersaustralia.org.au/ei/rs.esp?id=639&scriptid=_38511EYK8 For more information go to: http://www.engineersaustralia.org.au/search/file/?file=/fms/Divisions/Victoria%20Division/Events/Guest%20Speaker%20Flyer%2016%20June%202011.pdf

18th August – Presentation by Matthew Churchward on development of Self Service petrol pumps by a Victorian firm. 20th October – A talk on Flinders Street Railway Station by Jenny Davies (yet to be confirmed). More details, and/or alterations to the schedule, will be sent out closer to the relevant dates.

Functions Past:

The Engineering History & Heritage Landmarks Tour, Sunday 27th March – from Miles Pierce. This was a Field Trip and was a joint excursion with the Geelong Regional Group of Engineers , Victoria Division. Participants mustered at Geelong Railway Station at 10am and travelled by coach to see a wide range of places and sites of Engineering and Heritage interest in and around Geelong, including roads, bridges, structures, electricity supply, water supply, and transportation. Luncheon was at the Fyansford Hotel, followed by inspection of the nearby John Monash bridge over the Moorabool River. The tour concluded with a visit to the Ford Museum. All tour participants received a comprehensive set of Tour Notes compiled by members of the Geelong Regional Group with an invitation for the contribution of further information for a future re-issue.

The Second Talk on the Calendar Happened on Thursday 19th May 2011 at Bedford Street Event Title: History and Heritage of the Port of Melbourne Speaker: John Bennett, Port of Melbourne Corporation Host: Engineering Heritage Victoria About the Subject: The Port of Melbourne has been handling goods since John Pascoe Fawkner's chartered schooner The Enterprise arrived in August 1835 to unload passengers, building materials and livestock. The planning, development and operation of the Port have been entrusted to a public agency since the formation of the Melbourne Harbor Trust Commissioners by the Victorian parliament in 1877. In 2009-10 the Port handled 3157 vessel visits carrying 75.4 million revenue tonnes of cargo including 2.24 million TEU (twenty foot equivalent unit containers) and 375,000 new m otor vehicles. The Port's current infrastructure consists of channels, berths, wharves and terminals customised for the various types of cargoes sourced by importers and exporters. As cargoes, vessels and handling equipment have evolved, so too has the Port's infrastructure. & the Speaker: John Bennett studied civil engineering before applying for a graduate engineer position with the Melbourne Harbor Trust Commissioners in 1978. Over his 32 years with the Port he has worked in the planning, design, construction and maintenance of port infrastructure and negotiated significant private sector investment in superstructure. His current role is General Manager Bid Management. [I was very sorry to miss this discussion. I have had a strong interest in historic ports and harbours since working to save the Walsh Bay and Woolloomooloo finger wharves in Sydney Harbour and studying historic seaports in the USA and England, all in the 1980s. Our library contains a number of fascinating reports of the Melbourne Harbour Trust Commissioners from the 1880s and one from the 1930s which (I discovered today) serendipitously contains a magnificent aerial photograph of the SS Empress of Britain berthing at Station Pier with the help of three steam tugs. I have been hunting for a portrait of this great ship for months, to use in a book, and had given up hope of finding anything useful. – Ed.] Engineering Heritage Victoria Newsletter — June 2011 Page 2

2. EHV — Some Notes from the Committee Meeting 12th May 2011

The Committee 2011: In the last newsletter I noted that our committee this year was as follows: Miles Pierce (Chair), David Beauchamp (Deputy Chair), Owen Peake (Secretary), Ken McInnes, Matthew Churchward, Carl Doring and Margret Doring. Since then two new members have joined the committee – Paul Balassone, civil engineer and currently Heritage Services Co-ordinator at Melbourne Water, and William (Will) Gielewski, current Treasurer of Young Engineers Australia, Victoria Division (YEA-V). Will replaces Emma Russell, our previous secretary and representative of YEA-V on the committee, at present travelling overseas. Paul gave the February talk on the Yan Yean W ater Supply Scheme.

Engineering Heritage Recognition Program

The Goldfields Railways – Melbourne to Bendigo to Echuca: The nomination document requires some final work on the Statement of Significance to be completed. EHV is liaising with local councils and Tourism Victoria with regard to the location and type of interpretation panels and the “plaquing” cerem ony.

The Goldfields Railways – Geelong to : The nomination document is now at about 90% complete. Victoria Division Regional Groups of Geelong and Ballarat, with EHV, are planning an extensive program for the day of the 150th Anniversary, including an invitation to the Governor of Victoria to perform the “unveiling” ceremony and a steam train trip from Geelong to Ballarat, with stops along the way.

Newport Railway Workshops & the 1860 "Kirkstall Forge" Steam Hammer & Billet Crane: The nomination for the Steam Hammer and Billet Crane is complete but is awaiting completion of the nomination for the whole Workshops. This is about 80% complete. The present plan is to have a single ceremony for the Workshops and the Steam Hammer/Billet Crane, but two separate markings/panels. No date has been set.

Janevale Bridge, Laanecoorie: The nomination and a draft panel layout have been approved by Engineering Heritage Australia (EHA) and it is understood that the local Loddon Shire is supportive. The ceremony is planned for 9th or 10th August 2011. [I found good photographs of the bridge by Googling “Janevale Bridge Laanecoorie”, also much comprehensive information about the history and significance of the bridge plus the entry from the Victorian Heritage Database – VHR No.H1986. – Ed.]

Yallourn Power Station: This nomination, prepared by an engineering student, is 90% complete. More news later.

Chaffey Irrigation Works at Mildura – from Miles Pierce: It was agreed that these works, including the restored Psyche Bend steam pumping station, are a potential candidate for nomination under the ASCE International E H Recognition program, as well as under the EHA program. It was further agreed that the Sunraysia Regional Group and other interested local groups should be involved in developing a nomination'

Spotswood Sewage Pumping Station, now part of the Scienceworks Museum in Melbourne: The Pumping Station was awarded an Historic Engineering Marker in April 1994, and the plaque is located at the entrance to the Museum. That’s all fine, but EHA is searching for a copy of the nomination documents. There is nothing on file. It has been suggested that a full nomination document was never written. The nomination might have consisted of a number of existing documents with a covering letter. If anyone out there knows what happened and/or can put their hands on any of the relevant papers, please let Owen Peake know at [email protected] .

3. Proposal for a Victorian Engineering Heritage Database.

This proposal has developed considerably since Miles Pierce introduced it in the February newsletter. It is intended that a space on the EHV Vicnet website will be prepared for the proposed database, with a form in which significant engineering heritage sites/works/items can be entered. The form will have a number of mandatory 'fields' (such as the name of the work, its location, its particular significance) and other optional fields. The database could be available in a month or so on http://home.vicnet.net.au/~engherit/. Draft entries of some significant items have been prepared by Committee members and these will be entered in the database when it is ready. It is hoped that many members will have a go at entering details of significant items they are familiar with. [Committee members have prepared and recently consolidated a list of 184 significant Victorian Engineering Heritage Sites which are worthy of entry in the new database. Many of these (60) are marked as having high priority with potential for nomination as National Engineering Landmarks. Only a few of the items on this list have already been plaqued, ten are in the process of nomination. However all 184 could be entered in the new database and these entries could become the base information for future nominations. And don’t let this list constrain you. If you can think of other important engineering heritage items which aren’t on the list and which should be in the database, please have Engineering Heritage Victoria Newsletter — June 2011 Page 3

a go. I can think of several things which should probably be in the database and aren’t in the list – the Steel Water Tower at , the Bairnsdale Water Supply Pumping Station, the Maroondah Aqueduct, the Olympic Swimming Pool, BHP House in Bourke Street, the tram collection at the former Hawthorn Tram Depot and the depot itself, surviving cable tram relics and buildings. A copy of the consolidated list will be found at the end of this newsletter. – Ed.]

th 4. EHA Meeting in Darwin, 27 May 2011 – from Owen Peake.

The Darwin meeting was extraordinarily useful. There was intense engagement by all representatives at the meeting and there was some vigorous discussion on some of the issues. This is exactly why we need face-to-face meetings in an environment where most of our business is transacted by email. I thank every member of the Board for their enthusiastic participation in the meeting. You make my job as chair a whole lot easier when you participate with such interest and vigorous discussion. The discussions covered all programs which EHA has running. The greatest time was spent on a long paper discussing changes to the Heritage Recognition Guide. It was decided that a new award which might be called something like an Engineering Heritage International Landmark will be instituted to cover sites in Australia which have particular international significance and also to cover sites which have Australian engineering heritage significance but are not located in Australia. The Heritage Recognition Committee will further consider the name of this award. A series of changes were made to the Engineering Heritage Recognition Guide in an attempt to de-emphasize the hierarchical nature of the existing awards (Engineering Heritage National Landmark and Engineering Heritage Marker). There was further discussion about the long-standing issue of giving “history” a more prominent position in our considerations in addition to the consideration of the extant heritage of a particular site.

5. 16th Engineering Heritage Conference, Hobart, Tasmania – 13th to 16th November 2011

Registration for the 16th Engineering Heritage Australia Conference in Hobart in Novem ber 2011 is now open. Full details are on the website www.cdesign.com.au/ehac2011 where the Registration Brochure, Registration Form and on-line registration are all available.

6. Maritime Heritage Association of Victoria

Recently the committee received a copy of the Maritime Heritage Association of Victoria newsletter. Members might be interested to subscribe to this organisation. The newsletter had some interesting stuff. Contacts: Email: [email protected] Website: www.mhav.net

7. The Sir John Monash Suite at EA Victoria Division HQ

This is may be stale news, because it happened last year and I forgot to mention it in the last newsletter. Amid some revamping of spaces on the 2nd floor of Bedford Street, the Boardroom was transformed into the Sir John Monash Suite and officially opened on 21st October 2010 by Tim Pallas, the then State Minister for Roads, Ports & Major Projects. 2010 Division President David Eltringham, in his speech, emphasised the significance in the Year of Engineering Leadership, of Monash as a great leader and quoted some words of Monash which are now inscribed on the wall of the suite: Adopt as your fundamental creed that you will equip yourself for life not solely for your own benefit but for the benefit of the whole community. Reading them again a few weeks ago, It struck me that these words are far more relevant this year, the Year of Humanitarian Engineering, than they were last year. But why is this news in the EHV newsletter? Well Sir John Monash was one of our greatest engineers who designed some of this state’s most significant items of engineering heritage and hence is one of our most significant engineering heritage items himself. There was another interesting person in attendance at the party – John Connell, founder of the John Connell Group (now Connell Wagner) and possibly our most famous living item of engineering heritage – he had celebrated his 96th birthday the day before and was as spry as someone twenty years younger. Another subject for the database? Engineering Heritage Victoria Newsletter — June 2011 Page 4

8. From the Papers

The Age – Domain, January 2011: On January 1st I cut out and kept the Urban Legend section which featured a very good story (and image) about the Eltham timber trestle railway viaduct over the Diamond Creek. [I wish I could give you a link to the article, but for me it is impossible to find anything I want on The Age website. If anyone can show me how to work it, please get in touch! –Ed.] The story starts – “As shiny silver Metro trains approach Eltham station they slow down to 25km/h – about half their average speed – to clackety-clack gingerly across a single-track wooden trestle bridge that is an artefact of the age of steam. Built in 1902, when the train line from Heidelberg was finally extended into what was still an outlying rural village, the gracefully curving 195-metre bridge is now heritage listed. It is the last wooden railway trestle in the metropolitan area.”– and the most accessible if you want to go have a look. It was built to keep the railway above the flood plain on the approaches to the new Eltham Station. The bridge carried suburban steam trains until 1923 when the line was presumably electrified. The viaduct gets a mention at the end of Don Chambers “Wooden W onders”, and the National Trust’s statement of significance of item B1473, the Eltham Railway Bridge can be found at: http://vhd.heritage.vic.gov.au/search/nattrust_result_detail/66300 – sans image. To me it is damn near a m iracle that this viaduct still exists in normal, everyday, suburban use. Apparently it was proposed to replace it with an earth embankment in the 1970s, but the Eltham citizenry refused to allow this vandalism – so the viaduct survives. Likely this had something to do with the large number of artists and writers who still used the railway every day. I used to love the ride to Eltham station at weekends in the 1950s – there was always som eone interesting to talk to – and then I would hitchhike to our weekend house in the Christmas Hills. One day I was picked up by Alan Marshall (of “I Can Jump Puddles” fame) who used to leave his car at Eltham Station when he went to town. He invited me to tea at his house in Research several times and we became great friends. Eltham was still a rural village then – and in many ways it still is. [If you missed the Age article and would like a copy, let me know and I can scan and email it. – Ed.]

The Age – Obituaries, 9th April 2011 — Professor William James Bonwick, 15th June 1932 to 17th March 2011. Here is part of The Age obituary, copied from a cutting: – “Professor Bill Bonwick is thought to have taught about half of all the electrical power engineers working in Victoria, as a result of his academic appointments at Melbourne and Monash Universities...... On the research front, Bonwick’s first love was electrical machines, but he also made contributions to power electronics, solar power, superconductor magnetic energy storage and breakdown protection in oil-filled transformers. He had strong links with the power industry and was frequently contacted as a consultant. Bonwick, who led the department of electrical and computer systems engineering at Monash, joined the Clayton campus from Melbourne University in 1967; he took over leadership of the electrical power department .... in 1979. (He) was appointed to the Sir John Monash chair in electrical power engineering in 1991, and established and ran the Centre for Electrical Power Engineering, then funded by the State Electricity Commission, until he retired in 1997...... ” It is interesting that Bonwick held a Chair named after our prem ier Heritage Engineer, Sir John Monash, since it is obvious that Bonwick should also be named among our significant heritage engineers and deserves to be included in our database. [As in the previous story, I would refer you to the Age website for the rest of Bonwick’s obituary if I knew how to. I found about twenty other obituaries, but not this one. If you missed Bonwick’s obituary and would like a copy, let me know and I can scan and email it. – Ed.]

Sydney Morning Herald – Traveller NSW, 12th February 2011: Twenty-one years ago the Doring firm did a heritage study of the Wangi Power Station on Lake Macquarie, NSW. When it was built, Wangi had its own railway line which travelled seven kilometres from Wangi Wangi to Awaba on the main Sydney-Newcastle line. It was first used to carry in the power station construction materials and huge turbo-generators and then to bring the coal in from the new Awaba State Coalmine. In the study we barely noted the scant remains of the line and made no recommendations. However a few years later we did a heritage study of the whole of the City of Lake Macquarie and discovered the region was threaded with many disused railways, perhaps a hundred kilometres of them, mostly built to carry coal from the many district mines into Newcastle and travelling to practically every village and town around Lake Macquarie. We had recently been in the UK and had been fascinated by the enormously popular cycleway along a disused railway between Bristol and Bath. Our obvious recom mendation for all those disused railways in Lake Macquarie? Turn them into cycleways of course – many as part of industrial heritage trails. Now, nearly 20 years on, Council has at last transformed one of the lines – oddly, the only one which was still usable by rolling stock in 1993 and the only one where we saw an actual loco on a crossing. This line, which branched off the mainline at Adamstown and collected coal from several collieries along its route is written up as the Fernleigh Track in an article “Under your own steam”, to be found at: http://www.smh.com.au/travel/activity/active/under-your-own-steam-20110211-1apet.html. I enjoyed reading that!

The Weekly Times, 20th April 2011: “Mine your business” is a sad story of the Great International Quartz Mining Company at Maldon in Victoria and its failure, and how some local residents are conducting guided tours of the mine. To read the story go to http://www.weeklytimesnow.com.au/article/2011/04/26/322071_national-news.html or Google “Carman’s Tunnel”. A nice bit of industrial history recovered. Engineering Heritage Victoria Newsletter — June 2011 Page 5

8. From the Papers – Continued.

Sydney Morning Herald – Traveller, 30th April 2011: The Age also carried this story, but I can refer it to you via the SMH website, at http://www.smh.com.au/travel/holiday-type/luxury/above-their-station-20110427-1dvkn.html. This was a story about the Grand Victorian and Edwardian hotels associated with London’s famous railway stations – St Pancras, Paddington, Victoria, Charing Cross, Liverpool Street and Marylebone. The story was apparently inspired by the recent recycling/restoration of the former Midland Grand Hotel at St Pancras Station, now perhaps aptly renamed the St Pancras Renaissance Hotel. Any engineer tourist visiting the station would be attracted to the great iron arch station roof designed by William Henry Barlow – the largest such structure in the world when it was com pleted in 1868. As a contrast to Barlow’s utilitarian station arch, Sir George Gilbert Scott, who espoused the grand extravagances of the Italian Gothic Revival, was engaged to design the hotel, which was completed in 1876. W ikipedia tells us “The hotel was upscale and expensive with costly fixtures including a grand staircase, rooms with gold leaf walls and a fireplace in every room. The building had many innovative features such as hydraulic lifts, concrete floors, revolving doors and a fireproof floor construction, though none of the guest rooms had bathrooms, as was the convention of the time.” [see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midland_Grand_Hotel#Midland_Grand_Hotel and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Pancras_railway_station]. By the 1960s the hotel was defunct and the station redundant and both were facing dem olition. However strong opposition to their demolition, led by the poet John Betjeman, saved the structures but left them virtually empty. When my partner visited the station in 1986, specifically to examine the Barlow station buildings, he was also admitted to the hotel, then locked up and entirely disused, if not derelict. The hotel had been used as railway offices for many years, but then closed because the railway management could not face renovating it to meet current safety regulations. They told him they could not imagine what it (a grand hotel in the heart of London) could possibly be used for – a depressing reminder of the state of the Queen Victoria Building in Sydney a few years earlier when I took leaders of the construction industry on a guided tour and the general consensus of opinion was that the City would be better off to demolish it and build a carpark on the site. I understand the Queen Victoria Building now attracts the highest commercial rentals in Sydney.. Twenty years later, Barlow’s train shed has been restored and the station has been remodelled. It is now the UK terminus of the Eurostar Channel Tunnel services. It would be wonderful to be able to visit all the stations in the story – maybe to dine or have a drink in one of the hotel bars, but mainly to see how the railway station structures have been restored and/or rem odelled to suit the modern railway systems. [see below a reference to a story about Brunel’s “Paddington station: Span 4 refurbishing and strengthening”. – Ed.]

9. Papers from the ICE Proceedings: Engineering History and Heritage: Two papers which could be of interest to members are available for purchase through the ICE Virtual Library. The first, about the Victorian Goldfields Water Supply is written by our member Brian Harper – go to: Harper, 'The 1862 gold fields water supply scheme: Victoria, Australia' (August 2010), to see an abstract and find a link to its purchase. The second is a fascinating sidelight on the last story in item 8 above. Again, this link: Slade, 'Paddington Station: Span 4 refurbishment and strengthening' (February 2011) takes you to an abstract and a further link to its purchase. This paper, in 20 pages, includes a potted history of the design and construction of Brunel’s 1854 London terminus for the Great W estern Railway and later additions (specifically the circa 1916 Span 4). The paper is crammed with fascinating illustrations – including clear diagrams and archival and recent photographs – and a good list of references. However, not once does it mention the Great Western Royal Hotel on the site. Pity.

10. Potential Engineering Heritage Nominations for Victoria – Consolidated List See the editors comment in Item 3. The latest version of this list of sites is attached on the pages below. The idea is to work first on the sites which are not already written up in some register or other.

This newsletter has been prepared on behalf of Engineering Heritage Victoria which is a Special Interest Group of the Victoria Division of Engineers Australia. The Editor is Margret Doring, who can be contacted on 03 5729 7668 or [email protected] . Contributions for the next Newsletter will be gratefully received.

UNSUBSCRIBE: If you do not wish to receive further material from Engineering Heritage Victoria, please inform the Editor on [email protected]. Potential Engineering Heritage Nominations for Victoria – Consolidated List * Sites with potential for NEL nomination...... High Priority 60 items ! indicates that the site is a collection ...... On Current Work List 10 items VHR Victorian Heritage Register ...... Completed 10 items VHI Victorian Heritage Inventory ...... Lesser Priority 104 items NT National Trust of Australia (Victoria) Register EHV Engineering Heritage Victoria Database TOTAL 184 items EHA Heritage Recognition Program Nomination EHAD Heritage Recognition Program Draft Nomination

1. Road Bridges & Roadworks 1.01 Murray River Bridges (Swan Hill, Cohuna, Koondrook, etc) * (Barham-Koondrook Bridge VHR-H0795 1.02 VHR-1447 1.03 * VHR-H1440 1.04 Mia Mia lron Truss Bridge, Campaspe River (iron/timber composite bridge) Redesdale VHR-H1419 1.05 Keilor lron Box-Girder Bridge * VHR-H1427 1.06 Shellie lron Bridge 1.07 Ellerslie Timber Bridge VHR-H1029 1.08 Sale Swing Bridge EHA VHR-1438 1.09 Genoa Timber & Concrete Truss Bridge VHR-H1214 1.10 The Great Ocean Road 1.11 Bridge over Goulburn River (wooden bridge on old Highway) Seymour VHR-H0092, NT 1.12 Acheron Way (C507 road) Warburton to St Fillians 1.13 Black Spur (B360 road) Healesville to St Fillians NT 1.14 Barwon River Bridge Barwon Heads (demolished) VHR-H1848 1.15 McMillans Bridge over Misery Creek Rokewood VHI-HO91, NT 1.16 Jeparit Bridge over Wimmera River Jeparit NT 1.17 Anderson’s Mill Bridge over Birch Creek Creswick NT 1.18 Foley’s Bridge over Tullaroop Creek Clunes NT 1.19 Cemetery (or Alexandra) Bridge over Campbells Creek Castlemaine 1.20 Kerris (Chinamans) Bridge Nagambie VHR-H1449 1.21Hiawatha A-Frame Bridge Hiawatha VHR-H2069 1.22 McKillop’s Bridge over the Snowy River Tubbut NT 1.23 Tyers Road Causeway Bridge Traralgon NT 1.24 Murrindal River Howe Truss Bridge Buchan 1.25 Ambyne Suspension Bridge over Deddick River Tubbut 1.26 Corrigan’s Suspension Footbridge, Tarra-Bulga National Park, off Grand Ridge Rd south of Taralgon 1.27 Barwon River Bridge - Winchelsea (3 span bluestone bridge 1867) VHR-H1456 1.28 Janevale Bridge over the Loddon River Laanecoorie EHA VHR-H1986 2. Railway Bridges & Railway Works 2.01 Maribyrnong Railway Bridge (Footscray, Salt Water River) * VHI-HO51 2.02 * VHR-H1595 2.03 Melbourne-Bendigo-Echuca Railway* EHAD See Note 4 2.04 Geelong-BallaratRailway* + EHAD See Note 4 2.05 Echuca Rail/Road Bridge * NT (also see NSW State Heritage Register - Moama Historic Precinct & Echuca Rail/Road Bridge) 2.06 Moorabool Viaduct * VHR-H1105 2.07 Sandridge Railway Bridge over * VHR-H0994, NT 2.08 Port Melbourne & St Kilda Railway * NT 2.09 Williamstown Railway 2.10 Finders Street Railway Viaduct NT 2.11 Albion Railway Viaduct * VHR-H1197 2.12 Creswick Creek lron Railway Bridge VHR-H1432 2.13 The Big Hill Tunnel at Bendigo VHR-H1787 2.14 Puffing Billy (permanent way, bridges and rolling stock) Belgrave VHR-H1439, VHR-H2187, NT 2.15 Timber railway bridge over Bourne Creek Kilcunda near Wonthaggi NT 2.16 Railway Museum Collection Newport ! (Part of VHR-H1000 ?) 2.17 Curdies River Railway Bridge Timboon NT 2.18 Nimmens (Smyth’s Creek) Railway Bridge Newtown NT 2.19 Pyalong Railway Bridge Pyalong VHR-H1451, NT 2.20Noojee Trestle Railway Bridge Noojee VHR-H1435, NT 2.21 Boggy Creek Railway Bridge Nowa Nowa NT 2.22 Nicholson River Railway Bridge Bairnsdale NT 2.23 Snowy River Floodplain Railway Viaduct NT 2.24 Suburban Railway Electrification Melbourne 2.25 Railway Bridges of the Upper Murray District Railway, Tallangatta to Cudgewa (11 wooden trestle bridges). 2.26 Avon River Railway Bridge, Stratford 2.27 Narrow gauge railway bridge over Thompson River, Walhalla EHV 2.28 Malmsbury Railway Viaduct VHR-H1434 3. Water Supply — dams, pumping stations, etc. 3.01 Goulburn Weir * (Nagamnie?) VHI-H7925-0017, NT 3.02 Torrurnbarry Weir (& Murray River Locks) VHR-H0993 3.03 Coliban Water Supply Scheme VHR-H1021 3.04 Stawell Water Supply Scheme VHI-H7423-0079 3.05 Bendigo Waterworks (No.7 Reservoir?) VHI-H7724-0052 3.06 Yan Yean Water Supply Scheme VHI-H7922-0281-0321-0038-0203-0071-0072-0075-0203-etc., NT 3.07 White Swan Reservoir Ballarat 3.08 Chaffey Irrigation Scheme Mildura VHR-H0547, H0548, H0549, NT 3.09 Psyche Bend Steam Pumping Station Mildura VHR-H0548 3.10 Billabong Steam Pumping Station Mildura VHR-H0547 3.11 Millewa “A” Steam Pumping Station Lock 9 Kulnine East Murray River (Cullulleraine?) VHR-H0549 3.12 Maroondah Dam Healesville 3.13 Eildon Dam Eildon 3.14 Upper Yarra Dam Warburton 3.15 Dethridge Wheel Irrigation Areas (where ?) 3.16 Bendigo Water Supply 3.17 Victoria Barracks, Officers Quarters, Gravity Feed water system (Commonwealth Property) 3.18 Fortuna House, Bendigo, Gravity Feed water system 3.19 Willsmere psychiatric Hospital, Kew, water feed system 3.20 Lerderderg water wheel 3.21 Dartmouth Dam EHA 4. Hydro-electric Works 4.01 Rubicon Hydro Scheme VHR-H1187 4.02 Kiewa Hydro Scheme 4.03 Cassilis Hydro Scheme EHA 5. Electric Power Supply 5.01 Spencer Street Power Station (615-649 Lonsdale Street) NT, also Tank VHR-H2117 5.02 Richmond Power Station EHAD VHR-H1055, Yarra City HO279 5.03 Yallourn Power Station and open cut Coal Mine NT, (Admin Building VHR-H1064 5.04 Coal Dredge No.21 PowerWorks Morwell NT 5.05 Russell Place Substation (ex MCC ESD): 2 Glass Mercury Arc Rectifiers, 6.6kV Reyrolle Horizontal Isolation Metal-clad Switchgear 5.06 Electric Locomotive and two coal wagons at Powerworks, Morwell 6. Sewerage Works 6.01 Melbourne Sewerage System (circa 1900) (Main Outfall VHR-H1932 6.02 Barwon Sewer Aqueduct VHR-H0895, Greater Geelong HO56, NT 6.03 Sewerage system State Research Farm Werribee VHR-H1961 6.04 Spotswood Sewage Pumping Station EHA VHR-H1555 7. Maritime and Harbour Works 7.01 Port of Sale and Sale Navigation Canal EHA 7.02 Station and Princes Piers VHR-H0985 & VHR-H0981 7.03 New Works Historic Complex Lakes Entrance * VHR-H1532 7.04 Coode Canal & Victoria Dock * Coode Canal nil listing, Victoria Dock VHR-H1720 7.05 Port of Echuca Wharf * VHR-H2168, NT, in NSW - see NSW Heritage Register 7.06 Dukes Dock and steam pumping station (part of Maritime Museum, Polly Woodside) South Bank Melbourne VHR-H1096 7.07 Breakwater (John Coode designer 1877) VHR-H2124, NT 7.08 Fog Horn Point Lonsdale EHV 7.09 Williamstown Dry Dock (Alfred Graving Dock) VHR-H0697 8. Mining, Oil & Gas, Ironworks 8.01 Long Tunnel and Long Tunnel Extended Mining Companies Walhalla VHI-H8122-0092 8.02 Central Deborah Goldmine Bendigo 8.03 & Colonial G.M. Co site Clunes 8.04 Black Hill Quartz Mine site Ballarat East 8.05 Band and Albion Consols Engine House relic Ballarat 8.06 Berry Consols Beam Engine House Smeaton ?VHR-H1740? 8.07 Hepburn Estate Beam Engine House Smeaton VRI-H7623-0023 8.08 Lal Lal Mine and Smelter 8.09 Heatherlie Sandstone Quarry Stawell & Railway NT 8.10 Garfield Water Wheel (foundations remain) Castlemaine VHR-H1356, NT 8.11 Bass Strait Oil and Gas (40 year anniversary in 2009) 8.12 Wonthaggi VHR-H1777 VHR-H1778 8.13 George Ladsell’s Stamping Battery, Fortuna House, Bendigo 8.14 Gold Dredge, Eldorado, Rural VHR-H0386 8.15 Chewton Gas Engine driven Gold Sluicing Pump (which works? There are 3 on VHR plus 2 others on HRI and 1 NT) 8.16 Lerderderg Gorge Gold Mining site 9. Mechanical Engineering Artefacts 9.01 Cowley Steam Traction Engine Museum Victoria 9.02 Echuca Wharf Steam Engine Collection Echuca ! 9.03 Kerrisdale Mountain Railway steam engine Collection ! 9.04 Steam Engine Collection ! 9.05 Lake Goldsmith Steam Collection ! 9.07 Fire Services Museum Shand Mason Steam Fire Engine (horse drawn) East Melbourne 9.08 National Steam Centre Collection Scoresby ! 9.09 Newport Kirkstall Forge Steam Hammer and Billet Crane Newport VHR-H1000 and see Note 5 9.10 Forum Theatre (formerly State Theatre) Wurlitzer organ & orchestra pit hydraulic lifting systems, Flinders St, Melbourne VHR-H0438 9.11 Murtoa Gas Engines 9.12 Lakes Entrance Steam Crane (eastern wall of bar entrance works) part of VHR-H1532 9.13 Furphy Water Cart (where?) 10. Manufacturing Works 10.01 Newport Railway Workshops * EHAD VHR-H1000 10.02 Thompsons Foundry Castlemaine VHR-H1732 10.03 Dight’s Flour Mill (hydraulic turbines) (Abbotsford?) VHR-H1522 10.04 Bendigo Pottery Bendigo VHR-H0674 10.05 Lime Kilns Walkerville South VHR-H2043 10.06 Ironbark Engineering, Bendigo (operated from 1852) 10.07 Railway Workshops South Dynon (old exhibition building) (where?) 10.08 Morwell Briquette Works (Hedley?) VHR-H1058 10.09 Ordnance Factory Bendigo — No.10 Heavy Eng. Workshops & Naval Gun Quenching Pits & Oil Transfer Mechanism 10.10 Kyneton steam-driven Flour Mill (which one? - Piper St VHR-H2186 or Cobb& Co Rd VHR-H0310 10.11 Malmsbury water-driven Flour Mill NT 10.12 Bridgewater water-driven Flour Mill 10.13 Treadwell’s Blacksmith wheel quenching pits and blacksmith site, Noradjuha, Horsham 10.14 Berwick Potteries, Princes Highway, Officer 10.15 Chinese Pottery Kiln, Bendigo (near Joss House) 10.16 Fumigation Vaults, Point Nepean Quarantine Station (whole station - VHR-H2030) 10.17 Saw Mill, Heyfield 10.18 Saw Mill, Bruthen 10.19 McKay Smithy EHA (where?) 10.20 Bendigo Gasworks EHA VHR-H0781 11. Lighthouses 11.01 Cape Otway Lighthouse & Telegraph Station VHR-H1222, NT 11.02 Lighthouse Cape Liptrap 11.03 Cape Nelson Lighthouse VHR-H1773, NT 11.04 Lighthouse near Cann River () VHR-H1843, NT 12. Defence Works 12.01 * VHI_H7821-0002 12.02 South Channel Fort * VHR-H1502 12.03 Swan Island Torpedo Depot (where?) 12.04 HMVS Cerberus * VHR-S0117 12.05 Tank Museum Collection Puckapunyal ! 12.06 RAAF Museum Collection Point Cook ! 12.07 B-24 Liberator bomber (WWII vintage, in restoration) Werribee 12.08 HMAS Castlemaine (WWII vintage corvette) Willaimstown 12.09 Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation (site) Fishermans Bend 12.10 RAAF Radar at the Light House- Bass Strait Radar Stations 12.11 Gun Batteries, Williamstown Army Base 13. Buildings 13.01 Exhibition Building Melbourne (World Heritage Site) VHR-H1501 13.02 ICI House, Nicholson Street, East Melbourne VHR-H0786 13.03 Murtoa Stick Shed VHR-H0791, NT 13.04 State Library Dome EHA (whole building VHR-H1497) 14. Transport 14.01 Tram Collection Bendigo ! 14.02 Paddle Steamer Pevensey Echuca 14.03 Paddle Steamer Adelaide Echuca 14.04 Paddle Steamer Adexander Arbuthnot Echuca 14.05 Holden Museum Collection Echuca ! 14.06 Duigan’s 1910 Aircraft 14.07 Paddle Steamer Curlip, Snowy River 14.08 Interscan, Tullamarine Airport EHV 14.09 Horse drawn Fire Engine, Walhalla 14.10 Timber Tramway, Walhalla 14.11 Fowler Ploughing Traction Engines, used for clearing, (location not known but two of four are known to survive. One is in Western District.) 14.12 Paddle Steamer Gem, Swan Hill VHR-H1742 15. Aboriginal 15.01 Lake Condah Hydraulic Works near Heywood EHA See Note 3. 16. Astronomy 16.01 Great Melbourne Telescope 16.02 Time Ball Tower, Williamstown VHR-H1649 17. Sporting & Entertainment 17.01 MCG Floodlighting EHV 17.02 Carousel and Steam Engine, Geelong Waterfront EHV 18. Computing & Electronics 18.1 CSIRAC Computer EHA

Notes: 1. This list was compiled by combining two lists from Matthew Churchward in November 1999, by Owen Peake in May 2008 and by Bruce McCann in March 2010. 2. Some additional items have been added since the original lists were produced. 3. The Heritage Recognition Committee has confirmed at the EHA meeting in November 2010 that this site would be suitable for a nomination. 4. These sites to be marked on the 150th anniversary of their openings i.e. 2012. 5. Nomination drafted February 2010.