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2005/275/1 Railway map, entitled 'Map of New South Wales shewing Proposed Federal Capital Sites', silk / timber, owned by James Thomas Noon, New South Wales, Australia, lithographed and printed by New South Wales Department of Lands, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 1902. Click to enlarge.
  • Image 1 of 2, 2005/275/1 Railway map, entitled 'Map of New South Wales shewing Proposed Federal Capital Sites', silk / timber, owned by James Thomas Noon, New South Wales, Australia, lithographed and printed by New South Wales Department of Lands, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 1902. Click to enlarge
  • Image 2 of 2, 2005/275/1 Railway map, entitled 'Map of New South Wales shewing Proposed Federal Capital Sites', silk / timber, owned by James Thomas Noon, New South Wales, Australia, lithographed and printed by New South Wales Department of Lands, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 1902. Click to enlarge

Railway map of NSW showing proposed Federal Capital sites

On the first of January 1901, the colonies of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland, Western Australia and Tasmania joined together in a new Commonwealth of Australia. Both before and after Federation there was much public bickering about where the federal territory and seat of government should be. However, the Constitution had provided that the capital had to be in New South Wales, not less than 100 miles (161 km) from Sydney, and that the territory had to be at least 100 …

Summary

Object No.

2005/275/1

Object Statement

Railway map, entitled 'Map of New South Wales shewing Proposed Federal Capital Sites', silk / timber, owned by James Thomas Noon, New South Wales, Australia, lithographed and printed by New South Wales Department of Lands, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 1902

Physical Description

The railway map is entitled 'Map of New South Wales shewing Proposed Federal Capital Sites'. It features a map of New South Wales showing the railway lines radiating out from Sydney and Newcastle together with projected railways. All stations are shown with the distance from Sydney in numbers next to the station. Four inset maps titled 'Australasia'; 'Diagram of the South Coast Line from Sydney to Kiama and part of Southern Line Sydney to Moss Vale and the Sydenham to Belmore Line'; 'Diagram showing part of the Western Line Blacktown to Tarana also routes to Jenolan Caves' and 'Diagram showing Northern Coast Line Sydney to Newcastle and Branch Lines Milsons Pt to Hornsby and Blacktown to Richmond'.

The list of fifteen proposed sites for the new Federal Capital is noted in red in a box with a table noting their distances from Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Brisbane. The towns and places listed 1 to 15 are: Albury, Bathurst, Bombala via Cooma (rail and coach), Braidwood via Tarago (rail and coach), Carcoar Garland via Carcoar (rail and coach), Cootamundra, Forest Reefs and Calvert via Millthorpe, Orange and Canobolas, Tumut via Gundagai (rail and coach), Wagga Wagga, Yass and Lake George. The number of each town or place is noted on the map in red. Further proposed sites are indicated on the map by a red square and are underlined. Some of these include: Tenterfield, Armidale, Inverell, Port Stephens, Molong, Moss Vale, Rylstone and Mt Clarence, Tumbarumba and Dalgety.

The scale of the map is 29 miles to an inch or 1:1 837 440. The map is printed on silk which has been pasted onto a foamcore backing board and framed in a narrow black laminated timber frame without glass.

Marks

Lower right corner, printed 'Lithographed and Printed at the Department of Lands, N.S.W. 1902'

Lower left side, handwritten, ink 'James T. Noon'

Short URL

https://ma.as/356289

Dimensions

Height

660 mm

Width

785 mm

Source

Credit Line

Gift of Jacqueline and Robert Donehue, 2005

Acquisition Date

21 December 2005

Cite this Object

Harvard

Railway map of NSW showing proposed Federal Capital sites 2022, Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences, accessed 30 March 2023, <https://ma.as/356289>

Wikipedia

{{cite web |url=https://ma.as/356289 |title=Railway map of NSW showing proposed Federal Capital sites |author=Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences |access-date=30 March 2023 |publisher=Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences, Australia}}

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