After breakfast and rehanging the still damp towels (there was no room for them inside last night) we paid a call into the Visitor Information Centre. They suggested several drives, including Bald Rock and a Heritage Walk, starting with the Railway Station Museum. The Bald Rock drive is a 70km round trip, though, and we didn’t really want to do a big drive today so we went straight to the Railway Museum. It was opened in 1886 by Lord Carrington, Governor of NSW and was the “Great Northern Terminus”. It’s a very long station for such a small place but looks lovely. Unfortunately, it was one of the victims of the railway closures in 1988, with the last passenger train departing on 25th November. Everything was left intact, and eventually it was opened as a museum
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