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Guard Bill Wehr who was killed in a railway accident just south of Yongala, 26 June 1911
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.
Snow at Yongala in 1919
Jamestown Northern Areas Sports Day Special arriving at Yongala from Peterborough, c. 1960s. Meryn Noble in first window.
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.
400 Class locomotive 400 at Yongala with the Farmers’ Union building to the rear, 1964
Demolishing the Yongala railway cottages, 1970
Standard gauge Yongala station
Yongala railway station, 1972
Yongala narrow gauge railway yard, 1972. All these vehicles were eventually cut up for scrap.
Yongala narrow gauge railway yard, 1972
Narrow gauge cheese knob and points at Yongala, 1972
A dead water column at the Belalie North end of the Yongala railway yard, 1972
Yongala yard after the introduction of standard gauge and narrow gauge vehicles being scrapped, 1972
The Cram farmhouse at Yongala, 1972
Main street in Yongala, 1974. Back to Yongala celebrations.
Main street in Yongala, 1974. Back to Yongala celebrations.
Main street in Yongala, 1974. Back to Yongala celebrations.
600 Class locomotive pulling the Indian Pacific on the Yongala bridge, 1974
Old narrow gauge railway yard at Yongala, 1974
Old narrow gauge railway yard at Yongala, 1974
Cutting up the last Silverton Tramway truck bogies at Yongala, April 1974
The last Silverton Tramway narrow gauge bogies at Yongala prior to being scrapped, 1974
Yongala Station homestead, 1974
Old Yongala homestead, 1974
Old Yongala homestead, 1974
Yongala Station homestead, 1974
Congregants gather outside after a service in the Yongala Uniting Church, 1975
Graves of Maria Bradtke and Ernst Bradtke at Yongala, 1990. Ernst was a Mannanarie farmer and councillor in the Yongala District Council.
Grave of John Torr at Yongala, 1990. Torr also owned property at Peterborough and Peterborough’s Torr Street is named after him.
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.
Grave of Charles Hodby son of Yongala businessman Fred Hodby at Yongala, 1990
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.
Former FF Turner bakery at Yongala, May 2015
Former FF Turner bakery at Yongala, May 2015
Yongala main street, May 2015
Former greengrocer and butcher shop in Yongala main street, May 2015
Former greengrocer and butcher shop in Yongala main street, May 2015
Former greengrocer and butcher shop in Yongala main street, May 2015
Globe Hotel at Yongala, May 2015
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