When this telephone was installed at the Bathurst Post Office in 1895, the only place to make it ring was the Bathurst railway station. A single telephone line operated between the two establishments to advise the post office of any mail trains that were running late, until a switchboard of twenty-five lines was installed the […]
When a young apprentice stepped into the railway workshop in Bathurst for the very first time, he must have been amazed at the noise and activity. During the steam era, ten tradesmen and another apprentice moved about the workshop as they manufactured and machined various components for the engines. Behind the hammering and banging of […]
Newspapers raved about Bathurst Station when it first opened in 1876, calling it ‘the handsomest structure of its kind on any of the lines out of Sydney.’ However, the engineer in charge of building the station, John Whitton, had cut a few corners to save costs. As he had less capital than he wanted, the […]
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