The Risk

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Up Brisbane Limited at The Risk, April, 1986

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8042/80?? lead NL-1 Brisbane Limited through The Risk on a crisp clear morning ca 1986/87 "on the bullring". The last hold out of auto-exchangers in NSW, hand exchanges had actually become the norm, and the mechanised practice ceased very shortly after the photo series was taken. (Ian McCarthy)

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Photo by M Harley.
Signal Electrician (Barry Eggins) doing a staff balance at The Risk.circa 1975.

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The Risk, undated (RG Preston)

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(undated) (uncredited)

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The Risk 20/7/2024 (Greg Lee)

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The engine was 1892 7hp tangye made in birmingham..was used to pull a ships anchor..then sold to the casino gasworks..then to the nsw railways in 1930 and installed here.water was pumped up to this by a tangye kero diesel by this triple acting pump. (Cedric Popkin)

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44214 Candy staff change at The Risk signal box , near the border loop , Friday 12/11/1993 (Don Trevena)

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13 class taking water at The Risk between 18th February 1938 and 10th May 1944 (Singleton)

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Bill Harris at The Risk (Chris Harrison) (1995)

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The Risk, 1960s. (Alison Carter)



Cedric Popkin states:

Donny Wilson's bullock team..he was still harnessing them into the late eighties..he owned the land before the line came through. The line divided his property with the dairy on the creek side. He had his own set of gates to bring the dairy cows across. He was killed bringing the cows across..he was in his 90s..both a bit deaf and blind..no glasses or hearing aids..he stopped to chip some weeds with his hoe..the engine clipped the hoe and threw him into the side of the engine. His wife ran the farm with her daughter afterwards.