From Buckland Hill

Edith Trethowan was among the most prominent printmakers in Perth in the inter-war period. She learned etching from pioneering local artist Henri van Raalte and wood engraving from another local artist, Beatrice Darbyshire, who had returned from London in 1927 with the tools and enthusiasm for the medium.
Trethowan similarly pursued wood engraving as a technique. It had experienced a revival in Britain in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, often in association with fine art book presses, or, as in Trethowan’s case, as individual works of art. Trethowan favoured landscape subjects depicting everyday scenes in the environs of Perth; this print depicts the marshalling yards of the Western Australian Government Railways in North Fremantle, a rare industrial subject for the artist.