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Deepwater Railway Station Building & Garden
A tribute to a group who came together
to save the Deepwater Railway Building
Deepwater Railway Station New Years Day 1900
Source ,History House Glen Innes
Deepwater Railway Station about 2000
Source, Richard & Angela, Torrington.
ph 67 346 281
A majestic looking Deepwater Railway Station.
Click top photo for enlargement
Source ,History House Glen Innes
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Deepwater Railway Tribute to the group of people
who donated their time to save the Deepwater Railway that was going
to ruin (photo below). |
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Imagine the job to plant
all these trees (Look at enlargements 4 photos)
and also they put in a drip system for watering the young trees. |
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Background information for Deepwater and Deepwater Railway Station. |
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Dedri Cunninghame allowed us to use this article that we assume
it came
from the Glen Innes Examiner, but we have no date it was published.
Edited by this author, Hendrik. ........................ Titled. Pioneering spirit "alive and well" in Deepwater area. The first known white man to contemplate living at Deepwater was Arthur Wellesley Robertson who inspected the area in 1838. He returned to Sydney well pleased with what he had seen in the north and lodged a claim for land there. On his journey back to Deepwater, Robertson made a slight error in his navigation and traveled a few miles west to the valley he later named "Wellington Vale" Instead of looking further for Deepwater he remained at "Wellington Vale" and took up land there. The following year Archibald Windeyer and William Collins arrived to settle the Deepwater watershed. Naming of the area occurred when a man threw a stone into a deep hole of the river and exclaimed "Hey, thats deep water!" The area's aboriginal name was "Dalgibone," meaning hard, dry earth. Some forty years later in 1880 the railway pushed through to Deepwater. This gave Deepwater a real boost in both population and business. Also in this article. Tin Mining Boom in Area. As tin mining boomed at Emmaville, Stannum and Torrington the Deepwater railhead served these mines as well as the surrounding rural industries. At one stage of its operation in Deepwater railway station laid claim to the fact that it was the busiest and biggest freight centre north of Newcastle. During his hey day the residents of Deepwater enjoyed two daily trains to and from Sydney with one mails train stopping at all stations and the other, the Brisbane Express making its first stop Deepwater. All other stations south of Deepwater were serviced by another train to Glen Innes. The railway which created the town later reversed its policies and caused the closure of the tin smelters by doubling the freight on ingots of tin but not on untreated tin. Wool scouring plants were also closed when the railway began charging per bale on wool when all other commodities were charged per pound. Source of above article: ( Pioneering spirit "alive and well" in Deepwater area, Newspaper unknown, but assumed the Glen Innes Examiner.) The article came out of some ones scrap book. ................. The Deepwater Railway operated between 1st September 1886 (the day of its opening) until January 1972 (the day of its closure), a period of less than one hundred years. Source: (Donald Ellsmore PTY LTD, `Deepwater Railway Station Conservation Management Plan, Heritage and Conservation Services Sydney, December 2001). Edited. .................... Below. Documentary and Social setting came from: Donald Ellsmore PTY LTD, `Deepwater Railway Station Conservation Management Plan, Heritage and Conservation Services Sydney, December 2001. |
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For more study. |
You can view the first few comments in
the Deepwater Railway Station |
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The basic heritage values of
Deepwater Railway Station are well established. In 1993 the place
was entered on the Section 170 Heritage and Conservation Register of
the State Rail Authority. In 1999 the majority of SRA listings were
added to the State Heritage Register following amendment of the
Heritage Act.' For reasons that are unclear
Deepwater Railway Station was not entered onto the State Heritage
Register, although many less significant railway places were. As far
as it can be determined this was an administrative oversight. |
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People
have been saying to me what has happened at the Deepwater Railway
over the last few years.
