Overnight by train to Broken Hill

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Taking the second seating at breakfast we were in no hurry to leave the train. We had arrived at Broken Hill about 7:30 in Sunday morning, and the town was very quiet. Broken Hill had been a gold mining town for 120 years, and the story goes that more gold has been taken out of that operation during that time than anywhere else in Australia. It is estimated that from the 1880s to the 1950s about a billion dollars in gold came from the mines every year. That is BIG money. The mines are still a private company so the books are not publically available. If you have heard of the British mining company BHP, the largest in the world today, it got its start as Broken Hill Properties and has made many a Brit rich. Unfortunately, being Sunday, and a nippy one at that high on the plains in mid-winter, there was not much going on. Despite the wild west feeling, the town was deserted.

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Broken Hill
A deserted Broken Hill on a cold winter's Sunday Morning