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Harden Murrumburrah railway history

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Harden Murrumburrah: Aboriginal heritage | Allsopp & Barnes Families | Cinema / Picture Theatres | Council Chambers | Fossil animals | Guillaux - flying into Harden 1914 | Historic Buildings | Hotels, Pubs & Inns | McMahon's Reef Goldfield | Platypus | Postal Services | Railways | Sheep | Engine 3609 at Harden railway station, 15 December 1938. Photograph: W.R.B. Johnson. Chronology The following is a chronology of events relating to the State government operated railway line and associated facilities in the area of Harden and Murrumburrah, New South Wales, Australia. Construction of the line through Murrumburrah, and the related branch line to Young, commenced in 1875 with a single line and substantially continued through to duplication in 1918. It forms part of the mainline between Melbourne and Sydney, extending north to Brisbane. There is some confusion over the names Murrumburrah and Harden in connection with...
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The Allsopp & Barnes families of Murrumburrah

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Harden Murrumburrah: Aboriginal heritage | Allsopp & Barnes Families | Cinema / Picture Theatres | Council Chambers | Fossil animals | Guillaux - flying into Harden 1914 | Historic Buildings | Hotels, Pubs & Inns | McMahon's Reef Goldfield | Platypus | Postal Services | Railways | Sheep | A series of family history recollections by Hazel M. Foley (b.1912) Hazel M. Foley, 1929 1. Introduction The following collection of reminiscences and images were provided by Roger Foley of Lismore, to the present compiler in June 2024. They primarily relate to the pioneering Allsopp and Barnes families of Murrumburrah, of whom Mr. Foley is related. Three reminiscences are by Hazel M. Foley, Roger's mother, and a brief one from Roger. Some of the individuals mentioned below include the following: Allsopp, Frederick - son of Thomas Allsopp (1844-1919). Allsopp, Harold - father of Hazel M. Foley. [Grandfather of Roger Foley]...
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