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Madeleine Joined: February 9th 2008
Logged in: August 8th 2008
Logged in: August 8th 2008
Travel Blog Posts
Old Murrumbidgee Bridge
MURRUMBIDGEE BRIDGE PRINCE ALFRED BRIDGE I suspect from what I can read on the net that it is no longer used. I also saw a photo almost exactly like mine on Google Images. A bit better quality cause it didn’t have the spots on it. This is outside the town of Gundagai. Tuesday 27 January 1987 "Tarcutta waiting for car to be fixed. Luckily pool, trampoline. Walking distance (long for Susan) to what few shops. Kids bought some souvenirs" It’s amazing what memories those brief notes from my diary on both Monday and Tuesday bring back. Tarcutta, population 350 with a car and a trailer full of animals and children. Only one hotel in the town and luckily a garage that could fix the car. Luckily we had chosen a Holden so most places could find ... read more
Lithgow Steam Train
24th January 1987 The Zig Zag Railway was built between 1866 and 1869, and acclaimed a major engineering feat of its time. It was constructed to enable produce to be taken to Sydney from the prosperous farming areas beyond the Blue Mountains and to develop the coal and iron ore deposits found in the Lithgow Valley. The prodigious feat of bringing the railway from the top of the mountains to the valley below was accomplished by John Whitton, Chief Engineer of the NSW Government Railways. At the time The Great Zig Zag was regarded as one of the engineering wonders of the Victorian age. A by-product of such construction was the development of locomotive boilers which could cope with steep slopes and this led to the construction of mountain railways in other parts of the world, ... read more
Happy Snap
Brief diary entries Monday 26 January 1987 Leave Orange. Cowra, Young, Lunch Cootamundra, Gundegai 2 x dog + tuckerbox. 3 x long bridge. Hot dry. Scenery and weather. Tarcutta pop 350 Fan belt gone. PC Joan. ".... its origins lie firmly in the Australian bush and the early pioneers - who in this case forged west and south from the colonial headquarters in Sydney, following the explorers searching for the source of the Murrumbidgee River. Numbers of them took up holdings in the Gundagai district in the period 1830-50 They were hard and hazardous times with supplies and stores having to be transported along makeshift tracks over rough terrain by bullock teams. To pass the time while often being bogged, or for the river level to fall at crossings such as Muttama Creek near Gundagai, 'bullockies' ... read more
Car and Humpy Somewhere on the Nullabor Australia
(Small italics are comments added when this was retyped in June 2005. Original was on computer paper and typed using my old Royal typewriter) Trip started in Goulburn NSW where we had been living for the last 18 months. I don’t think any of us were sad to see the back of Goulburn. None of us had been particularly happy there, except maybe the Suze who was happy pretty much anywhere she was. The decision was made. We were going to take a trip down the Murray River (or as close as we could get to it by car). When we got to Mildura we would decide whether we were going to get a job in Broken Hill, or head to Perth. There are frantic chasing around doing things like sorting out the electricity, gas, telephone, ... read more
1 Warrington Gardens
I don’t know where this memory came from. It’s funny how they pop up here and there. When I was 21, a friend and I decided that it was time to travel. We organised ourselves to go to England for a 2-1/2 week holiday. We booked our tickets, got our passports, organised our whole trip, even down to a bus tour through to Scotland and back. Very excited young women we were. Both of us were still living at home and this was to be our big adventure before, as good girls do, we settled down to get married and have children. Remember, I’m talking about 1968. We arrived in London and I remember the first thing I noticed was the green. Coming from Canada, I was used to green, but England has the most ... read more
