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Petersburg’s Miller family at Nackara Creek, c. 1900. Photo from Rae Miller.
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T Class locomotive 258 and 400 Class locomotive 408 crossing at Nackara, 1967
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400 Class 409 and 830 Class 840 at Peterborough end of Nackara yard. Lionel Noble in cab of 409.
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Railway gang from Nackara, 1967. L: Gordon Heath, Raymond Coulter, Hector Rigney, __?.
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Staff shed at Nackara, 1964. Rodney Smith, ganger __ White, Robert Adams.
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Nackara ballast pits for rail standardisation, 1967
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Nackara ballast pits for rail standardisation, 1967. Machinery operator John Borbas.
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Nackara ballast pits for rail standardisation, 1967
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Nackara ballast pits for rail standardisation, 1967
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Nackara ballast pits for rail standardisation, 1967
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Nackara ballast pits for rail standardisation, 1967. 600 Class locomotives 601 and 600.
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Remains of the old Nackara narrow gauge railway yard, 1973
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Remains of the old Nackara narrow gauge railway yard, 1973
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Remains of the old Nackara narrow gauge railway yard, 1973
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Remains of the old Nackara narrow gauge railway yard, 1973
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Remains of the old Nackara narrow gauge railway yard, 1973
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Remains of the old Nackara narrow gauge railway yard, 1973
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Remains of the old Nackara narrow gauge railway yard, 1973
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Paddy Shinnick and family loading sandalwood at Yunta, 1930. Shinnick Family Photo
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Paddy Shinnick (centre) loading sandalwood at Yunta, 1930. Shinnick Family Photo.
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Tennis players at Yunta c. 1930s (Photo supplied by T. Arthur)
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Ethel Penna of Yunta, 1917. Ethel’s father had the Post Office at Yunta where she also worked.
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Ding’s lorry out the front of his garage at Yunta, c.1930s (Photo from T. Arthur)
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Ding’s lorry for Euridina Station, c. 1930s. (Photo from G. Cunningham)
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Yunta Hotel and Ding’s Garage, 1947
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Yunta railway yard and overhead tank,1947
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Yunta railway station and goods shed,1947
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Yunta railway station and goods shed, 1947. Yunta Station Master Ian O’Brien’s son in front of the station office.
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Yunta railway station and goods shed, 1947. Door to the left is the entrance to the Station Master’s Office and Parcels Office.
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Yunta tennis team, c. 1940s (Photo supplied by T Arthur)
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Ding’s truck from Yunta at Cockburn, c. 1940s
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Three Yunta residents, c. 1940s
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Flooding under Yunta road bridge, 1947
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300 Class locomotive taking on water at Yunta, c. 1950s
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Ding’s roadhouse at Yunta, c. 1950s
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400 Class locomotive 409 taking on water at Yunta at the Peterborough end of the railway yard, 2 April 1961
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Remains of old narrow gauge bridge alongside the standard gauge bridge at Yunta, 1966
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Yunta standard gauge railway station, c. 1980s
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Entering the Yunta railway yard, 1984
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Yunta railway yard and station, March 1984
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Hearth and foundations of cottage being demolished in Yunta, August 1990
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Yunta railway yard and railway cottages being demolished, August 1990
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Yunta railway yard and railway cottages being demolished, August 1990
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Yunta railway yard and railway cottages being demolished, August 1990
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Yunta railway yard and railway cottages being demolished, August 1990
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