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Train smash at Murulla, NSW, September 13, 1926

Rail smashes: Murrurundi 1908 and Murulla 1926

Post author:Greg Ray
Post published:April 23, 2020
Post category:History Miscellaneous Vintage Photographs and Photography
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Murrurundi: Good Friday 1908 It was Good Friday, April 17, 1908. At about 3.35am the Glen Innes train was just about to leave Murrurundi station, in the Upper Hunter Valley,…

Bridging the Hawkesbury River: Part 1

Post author:Greg Ray
Post published:March 18, 2020
Post category:History Miscellaneous Vintage Photographs and Photography
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When the first railway bridge over the Hawkesbury River was opened on May 1, 1889, it completed the final link in a rail system that linked NSW with South Australia,…

Wayne Dempsey in a derelict American Suburban sleeping car at Broadmeadow, NSW. Photo by Pete Smith

American Suburban: a railway love story

Post author:Greg Ray
Post published:September 16, 2019
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Wayne Dempsey’s dream, as a young man, was to work on the railways. Specifically, he wanted a job at the Eveleigh carriage workshops at Redfern. “I haunted the place, as…

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