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Guard Bill Wehr who was killed in a railway accident just south of Yongala, 26 June 1911
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Peterborough cemetery headstone of Bill Wehr who was killed in the Yongala railway accident in 1911. Bill was killed when a section of the train separated and he was crushed.
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Snow at Yongala in 1919
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Jamestown Northern Areas Sports Day Special arriving at Yongala from Peterborough, c. 1960s. Meryn Noble in first window.
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Fireman Graham Hennesey watering 400 Class locomotive 408 at the Belalie end of the Yongala yard, 1962. This was the engine on which Peterborough engineman Harry Viney was killed at Paratoo in December 1960.
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400 Class locomotive 400 at Yongala with the Farmers’ Union building to the rear, 1964
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Demolishing the Yongala railway cottages, 1970
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Standard gauge Yongala station
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Yongala railway station, 1972
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Yongala narrow gauge railway yard, 1972. All these vehicles were eventually cut up for scrap.
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Yongala narrow gauge railway yard, 1972
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Narrow gauge cheese knob and points at Yongala, 1972
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A dead water column at the Belalie North end of the Yongala railway yard, 1972
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Yongala yard after the introduction of standard gauge and narrow gauge vehicles being scrapped, 1972
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The Cram farmhouse at Yongala, 1972
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Main street in Yongala, 1974. Back to Yongala celebrations.
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Main street in Yongala, 1974. Back to Yongala celebrations.
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Main street in Yongala, 1974. Back to Yongala celebrations.
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600 Class locomotive pulling the Indian Pacific on the Yongala bridge, 1974
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Old narrow gauge railway yard at Yongala, 1974
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Old narrow gauge railway yard at Yongala, 1974
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Cutting up the last Silverton Tramway truck bogies at Yongala, April 1974
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The last Silverton Tramway narrow gauge bogies at Yongala prior to being scrapped, 1974
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Yongala Station homestead, 1974
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Old Yongala homestead, 1974
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Old Yongala homestead, 1974
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Yongala Station homestead, 1974
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Congregants gather outside after a service in the Yongala Uniting Church, 1975
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Graves of Maria Bradtke and Ernst Bradtke at Yongala, 1990. Ernst was a Mannanarie farmer and councillor in the Yongala District Council.
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Grave of John Torr at Yongala, 1990. Torr also owned property at Peterborough and Peterborough’s Torr Street is named after him.
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Grave of Peter and Mary Shearer at Yongala, 1990. Peter and Mary were the parents of John and David Shearer who started J&D Shearer, the farm machinery manufacturers.
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Grave of Charles Hodby son of Yongala businessman Fred Hodby at Yongala, 1990
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Grave of Henry Cheek at Yongala, 1990. Henry died of typhoid fever and had worked in the Post and Telegraph offices in both Yongala and Teetulpa.
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Former FF Turner bakery at Yongala, May 2015
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Former FF Turner bakery at Yongala, May 2015
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Yongala main street, May 2015
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Former greengrocer and butcher shop in Yongala main street, May 2015
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Former greengrocer and butcher shop in Yongala main street, May 2015
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Former greengrocer and butcher shop in Yongala main street, May 2015
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Globe Hotel at Yongala, May 2015
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