Studio portrait of Lieutenant-Colonel Francis D. Grey, Director of the Tasmanian Main Line Railway Company. Hobart, 1878.

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Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 105 x 64 mm (mount); recto of mount with fully contemporary caption in ink Colonel Grey ; verso imprinted From the Photographic Studio of J. Bishop Osborne, 76 Murray St., Hobart Town ; in excellent condition. The Tasmanian Main Line Railway was built by a private company formed in 1872. A close but uncomfortable relationship with the Government was resolved in 1890 with the purchase of the company s assets by the Crown and their incorporation into the Tasmanian Government Railways. (Libraries Tasmania https://libraries.tas.gov.au/archive-heritage/guides-records/Pages/railway.aspx) Lieutenant-Colonel Francis D. Grey a was a member of the Board of Directors of the Tasmanian Main Line Railway Company, which had its head office in Cannon Street, London, and its Tasmanian office in Liverpool Street, Hobart. The Mercury , Hobart, reported his arrival in the colony on 14 August 1878, with some optimism: WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 14, 1878. Among the passengers by the Derwent who have arrived in Hobart Town are Colonel FRANCIS D. GREY and Mr. J. B. DAVISON, who, we understand, have been deputed by the Tasmanian Main Line Railway Company to visit the Colony, and endeavour to make arrangements with the Tasmanian Government for the settlement of all disputes between the Railway Company and the Government . Grey and Davison remained in Tasmania until the start of November. However, they failed to resolve any of the ongoing disputes betwee

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