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Off the rails at Woodville Junction: a vintage photo essay on a railway mishap

Post Author:Greg Ray
Post published:September 5, 2020
Post Category:Newcastle, NSW, Australia / Vintage Photographs and Photography

As a newspaper reporter, I often had the experience of spending time covering a story, only to have it never appear in print or, even worse perhaps, see it cut…

The great Newcastle railway debate of 1856

Post Author:Greg Ray
Post published:July 8, 2020
Post Category:History / Newcastle, NSW, Australia

WHEN the newly formed NSW Railway Commission proposed in 1856 to extend the Newcastle railway line from Honeysuckle Point to the city’s east, many of the town’s inhabitants were horrified.…

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

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,…