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Newcastle. The former Railway Station master’s house. Built by the former convict lumber yards. Standard NSW railways design built in 1885. Two storey bay windows, fancy barge boards on gables..
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Newcastle. The Hunter River frontage of the Newcastle Rydges Hotel.
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Newcastle. The impressive Baptist Tabernacle. Built in classical Greek style with triangular pediment. Built in 1890.
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Newcastle. The Newcastle Club. Built 1924. An 1885 club existed before this. Classical style entrance. Stone street walls probably built by convicts.
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Newcastle. The old railway station now closed. The first part was built when the railway to Maitland opned in 1858. Rail link to Sydney opened in 1889.
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Dubbo. The railway station masters residence.
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Dubbo. the railway station platform with steel supports for the platform roof.
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Gilgandra. Orana cactus garden.
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Gilgandra. The Presbyterian Church built in 1912.
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Gilgandra. The rear of the 1922 built Anglican Church. Partly funded by money from Bournemouth England as Gilgandra had the best WW1 war servcie record in the British Empire.
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Station Masters House
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Stow Station House
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Stow Station House
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Flinders Ranges. Lyndhurst. Camel train by the small town carting wool from sheep stations along the outback tracks. State Library photo. B45085124 .
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Flinders Ranges. The ghost town of Wilson. Headstone in the cemetery with the ruins of the stone railway station master's house beyond.
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Callington. Established 1849. Copper mining 1850 to 1875. A partially restored old miner's cottage from the 1850s. Popular with pidgeons but not house buyers.
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Callington. Established 1849. Copper mining 1850 to 1875. Railway reached here around 1884. Station now demolished. All that remains is the station masters house and water tower. It is on the Adelaide to Melbourne railway.
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Callington. Old copper mining town. Most of the district farmers were of German descent. St Peter's Lutheran Church was built in 1864. The bluestone was cement rendered a few decades ago.
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Callington. The railway reached here around 1884 on the connection to Melbourne which began 1887. A local resident in the 1890s railway workers cottages has his own little Callington railway station. The old station has been demolished. .
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Callington. The town was established in 1849 when copper was found here. A deserted cottage from the 1850s in the main street.
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Culcairn. The unusally designed Catholic Church whcih was built in 1967.. The original church opened in 1912.
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Culcairn. This old railway station was built in 1880. In 1892 a branch line went from here to Corowa.
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Hammond Catholic Church window on the facade. Church built 1907. The window with writing inside says In Memory of Archbld McDonald. May he rest in peace.
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Hammond ghost town near Wilmington. These Council Chambers were built in 1913. The Hammond District Council was formed in 1893. Abolished 1933
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Hammond Ghost town on the Willochra Plains. Part of the wooden platform on the railway station of 1881 and the station masters house.
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Hammond ghost town. This stone cottage was the railway station masters house. The railway from Peterborough reached Hammond in 1881. The railway station was wooden and later removed.
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Hammond ghost town. Western facade of the Hammond Hotel. Built in 1877 before the town was established in 1879. Closed as a pub 1972. Grand old Pepper tree outside the front bar.
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Hammond. Old ghost town established 1879. On left is one of the general stores run laterly by Mr Cuse. On the right the building was the town cottage hospital.
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Hammond. Old ghost town. The Post Office built in 1880. Town founded 1879. Old mail boxes still in the fornt wall.
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Hammond ghost town. Western facade of the Hammond Hotel. Built in 1877 before the town was established in 1879. Closed as a pub 1972. Now a weekender.
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Hammond ghost town.This Catholic Church was erected in 1907 with stone from the first Wilmington Catholic Church. It closed in 2006. Now only has a congregation of ghosts and pigeons.
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Hammond ghost town.This Catholic Church was erected in 1907 with stone from the first Wilmington Catholic Church. It closed in 2006. The last public building of Hammond.
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Hammond. All that remains of the Hammond Railway station built in 1881 1882. And the stone station masters house.
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Hammond. History information board.
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Hammond. Near Wilmington. Town founded 1879. Bank of Adelaide opened in 1893.This bank building looks like a 1920s structure. The Bank closed in 1939.
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Peterborough. Part of the old 22 stall Roundhouse in the railway yards. It was built in 1927 when Peterborough became a major regional rail headquarters with 1800 railway employees in the town.
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Peterborough. Railway Station Masters house of about 14 rooms . Built around 1882 after the lines from the north south and west reached Petersburg as it was then called. Line from East (Broken Hill) reached Petersburg in 1886
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Peterborough. Railway Station Masters house. Built around 1882 after the lines from the north south and west reached Petersburg as it was then called. Line from East (Broken Hill) reached Petersburg in 1886
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Peterborough. Signage on St Peters Lutheran Church built in 1885. It was part of the South Australian Evangelical Lutheran Synod.
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Peterborough. The former St Peters Lutheran Church built in 1885 when the town was called Petersburg. Now a cluttered residence
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Black Rock Railway Station yards. The railway station name sign, communications box and ruins of the railway workers cottages. The railway from Peterborough reached here in late 1881.
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Black Rock. Known as Dalton until 1940. The town Institute now the public hall. Built in 1913.
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Black Rock. Originally named Dalton. Ruins of the railworkers cottages. The railway line from Peterborough was extended through here to Orroroo in 1881.
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Black Rock. The former Baptist Church built in 1891. It closed as a church in 1966 and is now a residence or weekender.
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Black Rock. The hotel built in 1893 in a grand style for a small town that is now a ghost town. It traded until 1988 when the railway to Quorn closed. Re opened 1998 as an art gallery until 2003.
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Black Rock. The hotel built in 1893 for Irish publican Michael Moylan. Built in a grand style for a small town that is now a ghost town. It traded until 1988. Re opened 1998 as an art gallery until 2003.
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Ucolta near Peterborough. A ghost town now. Old railway workers double cottage. Railway workers left the town in the late 1960s.
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Ucolta near Peterborough. A ghost town now. Old railway workers cottage now in ruins. Railway workers left the town in the late 1960s.
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Ucolta. Former station masters house built around 1890. Railway line to Broken Hill passed through here in 1885. Town vacated by railway workers in late 1960s.
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Ucolta. Now a ghost town. End view of double unit railway workers cottages. Built around 1900. Left vacant in 1960s. Now in ruins.
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Albury. The two storey Station Masters residence. Built in 1881. Now the Albury Information Centre.
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Narrandera. The 1881 old wooden railway bridge across the floodplains of the Murrumbidgee River at Narrandera.
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Narandera on the Murrumbidgee River in the Riverina. The 1881 old wooden railway bridge across the floodplains of the Murrumbidgee River at Narrandera.
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Narandera on the Murrumbidgee River in the Riverina.Ruins of Harry Lincolns Oakbank Brewery built in 1912.
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Narandera on the Murrumbidgee River in the Riverina.Ruins of Harry Lincolns Oakbank Brewery built in 1912.
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Narandera on the Murrumbidgee River in the Riverina. Ruins of Harry Lincolns Oakbank Brewery built in 1912.
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Narandera on the Murrumbidgee River in the Riverina. The Narrandera Railway Station was opened in 1881. Architect was John Whitton.
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Narandera on the Murrumbidgee River in the Riverina. The Narrandera Railway Station was opened in 1881. Architect was John Whitton.
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Narandera on the Murrumbidgee River in the Riverina. The Narrandera Railway Station was opened in 1881. Architect was John Whitton.
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Narandera on the Murrumbidgee River in the Riverina. The Station Masters residence at the Narrandera Railway Station. Built when the station was built in 1881.
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