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Episode 1- Beginnings of the Queensland Railways

Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:49:53
Publish Date: 2021-07-26 03:00:00
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In the last weeks of July 1865, the population of Southern Queensland watched with increasing interest and confidence, the anticipated completion of the first section of the Southern and Western Railway. Looking back at that era, it is still easy to discern the excitement and pride that had manifested in the colonists of Queensland as they read reports in the local papers of the approaching opening.

 

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