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Bathurst is a regional city in the Central Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia. It is about 200 kilometres (120 mi) north-west of Sydney and is the seat of the Bathurst Regional Council. Bathurst is the oldest inland settlement in Australia and had an a population of approximately 35,000 as at the 2016 Census.
The government surveyor, George Evans, was the first European to sight the Bathurst Plains in 1813, following the first successful European crossing of the Blue Mountains in the same year. In 1814, Governor Lachlan Macquarie approved an offer by William Cox to build a road crossing the Blue Mountains, from Emu Plains, the existing road terminus west of Sydney, to the Bathurst Plains. The first road to cross the Blue Mountains was 3.7 metres (12 ft) wide and 163.3 kilometres (101 1⁄2 mi) long, built between 18 July 1814 and 14 January 1815 using 5 freemen, 30 convict labourers and 8 soldiers as guards. Governor Macquarie surveyed the finished road in April 1815 by driving his carriage across it from Sydney to Bathurst. The Governor commended Cox and stated that the project would have taken three years if it had been done under a contract. As a reward Cox was awarded 810 hectares (2,000 acres) of land near what is now Bathurst.
On 7 May 1815, Governor Macquarie at the terminus of Cox's Road raised the flag, ordered a ceremonial volley to be fired and proclaimed and named the future town of Bathurst after the Secretary of State for War and the Colonies, Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst.
Bathurst is the oldest inland town in Australia. It was intended to be the administrative centre of the western plains of New South Wales, where orderly colonial settlement was planned.
Bathurst is often referred to as the Gold Country as it was the site of the first gold discovery and where the first gold rush occurred in Australia. Today education, tourism and manufacturing drive the economy. The internationally known racetrack Mount Panorama is a landmark of the city. Bathurst has an historic city centre with many buildings remaining from the gold rush period of the mid to late 1800s.
The median age of the city's population is 34.0 years; which is particularly young for a regional centre (the state average is 36.4), and is related to the large education sector in the community. Population growth has reached 1.6% per annum over the five years until 2010, making Bathurst the seventh fastest growing regional city in NSW. This growth over recent years has resulted in increased urban development including retail precincts, sporting facilities, housing estates and expanding industrial areas.
Smurfit Stone SW9 picks up cars from New Brunswick East Coast Rwy. to bring to the paper mill a the end of the 2.4 mile Bathurst Spur. This short train crosses a portion of the Bathurst Basin on October 7, 2003.
Mark Winterbottom and Dean Canto in th #5 Bottle-O entry for Tickford Racing in the anniversary livery from '77 of Allan Moffatt.
Ford Falcon FG/X, during practice for the Bathurst 1000 at Mount Panorama.
(1/3) Through Hell Corner in the wet.
(2/3) Under heavy brakes into Murray's Corner.
(3/3) After the climb through Reid Park.
Mount Panorama, Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia.
Between Bathurst and Newbridge, at the foot of a steep hill is a property called Gresham Downs. This image was captured on a cold windy morning last week.
Bathurst 1000 Runners-up, a great drive in the wet by Warren Luff and Scott Pye in the Mobil 1 HSV Racing Commordore.
Thursday & Friday practice.
Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia.
Three albino wallaroos that calls Mount Panorama home are gaining worldwide attention. (Image:ABC/Melanie Pearce)
Bathurst 1000 Winners, David Reynolds and Luke Youlden from Betty Klimenko's EREBUS Team, in the Penrite Commordore.
Thursday & Friday practice.
Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia.
Bathurst 1000 Winners, David Reynolds and Luke Youlden from Betty Klimenko's EREBUS Team, in the Penrite Commordore.
Thursday & Friday practice.
Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia.
Standing at the bottom of Conrod Straight and looking down the Pit Straight in the 2017 Liqui Moly Bathurst 12 Hour endurance race for GT and touring car classes, GT3 and GT4 cars at the Mount Panorama Circuit.
(1/3) #60, BMW Team SRM ~ Steven Richards, Marco Wittmann & Mark Winterbottom ~ BMW M6 GT3 (4.4ltr S63 BMW V8).
(2/3) #88, Maranello Motorsport ~ Craig Lowndes, Jamie Whincup & Toni Vilander ~ Ferrari 488 GT3 (3.9ltr Ferrari F154 twin-turbo V8).
(3/3) #47, Kiwi Racing ~ Glenn Smith, Kevin Bell, Nicholas Chester & John de Veth ~ Lamborghini Gallardo R-EX (5.2ltr Lamborghini V10)
Mount Panorama, Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia.
The councils in the NSW central tablelands used to be big on the MJE side loaders in the past, but Superior Pak has since taken over a lot of the territory with trucks like the one shown. Also used to only be garbage and recycling in Bathurst, but a weekly organics service was introduced in early 2016 to start recovering food and garden waste in the region.
Seven Hills, suburban Sydney, Australia
The train does not stop here.
Heading west out to Bathurst
We are looking east.
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BATHURST 12HR 2015
Team Phoenix R8 LMS Ultra at Reid Park, Mt Panorama, Bathurst NSW.
This is a Special Livery designed by Audi specifically for the Australian race, and is a "throwback" to the famous crocodile Audi R8 Le Mans race car that competed in the Race of a Thousand years in Adelaide, 2000.
Among the pilots of this particular machine, which featured Audi factory drivers Christopher Haase and Stephane Ortelli (Driving in this shot), was famous space jumper Felix Baumgartner.
This shot was somewhat lucky.. I had a few from this spot but the cars travel quite fast through here and I was lucky to get as much as the car in focus as I did - and the framing is coincidental. Shot is raw and unedited - pulled straight from the memory card. Most of uphill parts of the circuit have no advertising during this race so it was great to capture it against a backdrop of Michelin draped walls and of course, the tall eucalypts - which highlight that this can only be Australia!
4204, 4716 and 4702 make their way past rail buffs on the platform at Bathurst on their return trip back to Sydney. The train made a day trip to Orange as a fundraising event for the overhaul of 5917.
Bathurst, NSW.
Saturday 1 July 2017.
Castle Class 5051 Earl Bathurst on static display at Toddington some years ago.
Originally named Drysllwyn Castle, she acquired her new name in 1937. Her old name was acquired by classmate 7018 built circa 1947.
5051 was withdrawn from Llanelli in 1963 and sold for scrap to Woodham Bros in Barry, from where she was rescued by the Great Western Society at Didcot and fully restored.
had a need to go to Bathurst for a work trip and deliberated about whether to take my camera or rely on my phone. As I didn't know whether I would actually have any free time, I decide dto rely on my new iphone 7 plus for the day and "test it out" if I had the time. This is one of the images I took when I went for a short stroll in the morning. The Bathurst Courthouse (circa 1880) faces Russell Street and is Neo-Classical with an octagonal Renaissance dome. It was designed by colonial architect James Barnet and is in the heart of this rural town. The courthouse is definitely an impressive building and is regarded by the National Trust as 'one of Australia's finest examples of Victorian public architecture'. The entire structure is 81 metres long and 45 metres wide.
This recreates one of the circuit's most significant finishes from 1984 - Marlboro Holden Dealer Team Peter Brock in car #1 and John Harvey in car #2. Cars by Mitchell Kruik and Centuri Chan
This is the oldest of the 3 Raptors working in Bathurst, a 2012 model with the now previous ACCO cab, came across this one early doing the collections in Kelso. The signature green and blue striping along with the wording and council logo is just enough to cut through the plain white look on the Bathurst trucks, makes them look good.
Bathurst Basin is a small triangular basin adjoining the main harbour of the city of Bristol, England. The basin takes its name from Charles Bathurst, who was a Bristol MP in the early 19th century
On 21 November 1888 the Basin was the scene of a serious explosion and fire. The ketch United was laden with 310 barrels of naphtha, distilled from coal tar in Brislington, and ready for departure to London. The cargo had been loaded the previous day at Welsh Back and the Master, Henry Cartwright, was now waiting for strong winds to drop. Knowing the risk of fire for this flammable cargo, all flames had been banned from around the vessel and it had been kept in the entrance lock, not the main basin, overnight. Just after 11am, a sudden explosion rocked the basin
Taken with a Nikon D7000