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Opening of the Orroroo railway station, November 1881. This was the first train and was carrying the official party, November 1881
Early Orroroo, c. 1890s
Zanker’s Hotel, Orroroo, c. 1900
Orroroo railway station, c. 1900s
Orroroo railway yard c. 1940s
T Class locomotive 211 crossing the bridge out of Orroroo, 5 February 1968
Oli burning T Class locomotive hauling the poison train on the outskirts of Orroroo, August 1969
Walloway end of the Orroroo railway yard, October 1972
Orroroo railway yard goods shed and station, October 1972
Orroroo railway station and yard area, October 1972
Train order signal at Orroroo, October 1972
Orroroo station and railway yard, October 1972
Orroroo Stationmaster Reg Wilson at the Orroroo station, 1973. Train order signalling handler on the post to the rear.
Orroroo Stationmaster Reg Wilson (right) at the Orroroo railway station, 1973.
Orroroo Stationmaster Reg Wilson at the Orroroo railway station, 1973
Orroroo Stationmaster Reg Wilson at the Orroroo station, 1973. Train order signalling handler on the post to the rear.
Former Orroroo railway yard and goods shed, 1973
Orroroo 1973. Loco depot overhead tank and pit on Tank Road. Water column on main line at Peterborough end.
Former Orroroo railway yard, 1973. Taken from the Peterborough end of the yard and looking north-west.
Pich Richi locomotive at Pekina Creek near Orroroo, 1974. Photo by Jack Babbage.
W Class locomotive hauling an Historical Society train on the Orroroo bridge, August 1974.
Carl Zanker, farmer of Orroroo, c. 1910s. Zankers operated a brickyard in the Orroroo area.
Ruins of Zanker brick factory area, Orroroo, 1975
Ruins of Zanker brick factory area, Orroroo, 1975
Zanker brick factory area, Orroroo. Murray Smith, 1975.
Ruins of Zanker brick factory area Orroroo, 1975
Underground tank at Zanker brick factory Orroroo, Murray Smith, 1975
Docket from Orroroo Brick yard, W Zanker, to F Lloyd, Peterborough, 1925
Plaque on the memorial at the entrance to Orroroo main street, 1976
Memorial at the entrance to Orroroo main street, 1976
Township of Orroroo looking roughly east, 1977
Peterborough Steamtown passenger movement on the Orroroo bridge, 1981
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