Tag Archives: railway

The Clock

Posted on March 7, 2013 by Paula Bray

85/1949 Railway platform clock, metal / glass, maker unknown, used by New South Wales Government Railways, Australia, c. 1863

Monks living in the Benedictine monasteries of Europe in the 1200s were the first to use mechanical clocks to divide the day into equal periods… More

Trainspotting highly commended: People category

Posted on December 12, 2012 by Paula Bray

This image was selected for our Trainspotting 2012 photography competition and exhibition. This photograph, taken in Bangladesh, was highly commended in People category. The photographers… More

Trainspotting highly commended: people category

Posted on November 30, 2012 by Paula Bray

This image was selected for our Trainspotting 2012 photography competition and exhibition. This photograph, taken in Bangladesh, was highly commended in the people in railway… More

Trainspotting highly commended: people

Posted on October 12, 2012 by Paula Bray

This is one of our highly commended photographs from our Trainspotting 2012 photography competition. This image titled ‘Homeward Bound’ was selected by the judges in… More

Trainspotting highly commended: railway infrastructure

Posted on October 2, 2012 by Paula Bray

This is one of our highly commended photographs from our Trainspotting 2012 photography competition. This image titled ‘SanRemoEntry’ was selected by the judges in the… More

Trainspotting winners announced

Posted on September 13, 2012 by Paula Bray

Trainspotting: only two days to go

Posted on June 27, 2012 by Paula Bray

Trainspotting, (train photography competition) 2011 exhibition views

There are only three more days to enter our photographic competition/exhibition Trainspotting. We have received some fantastic images into our group on Flickr and we… More

Trainspotting: highly commended

Posted on June 11, 2012 by Paula Bray

Trainspotting, our photography competition, will be closing on the 29th June at 5pm so if you are interested in putting some photos into the competition… More

Trainspotting 2011

Posted on February 4, 2012 by Paula Bray

This is our Trainspotting 2011 photo competition exhibition that is currently on display at the Museum. We have 47 amazing photographs featured in this exhibition… More

Trainspotting photography competition now open for 2012 entries

Posted on December 16, 2011 by Paula Bray

The Powerhouse Museum's Photo of the Day blog features a new image each day, chosen from the Powerhouse Photo Library.

The majority of these images have been taken by Museum photographers for a variety of purposes such as for exhibitions, of objects in our collection, events, behind-the-scenes and location shots. We also feature many images taken by our Flickr community and from our visitors. We hope you enjoy the photographs and stories.

The licensing of each image varies however we are trying to release as many as possible under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.1 license.