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Junee (inhabited place)

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

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Junee Junction, platform and line, 1887

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086E/7
Scope and Contents

346 x 262 mm. A view looking across the line towards the main platform, where passengers and a station official stand. Above the platform hangs an ornate sign offering 'Refreshments', beneath which stand four waitresses; 'The largest and most complete refreshment rooms on the railway has been established here, ample time being allowed by all passenger trains for travellers to obtain refreshment.' (NSW Registrar-General's Office 1886, p.96).

Dates: 1887
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Junee Junction, platform and line, 1887

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086E/8
Scope and Contents

345 x 262 mm. A view of the other end of the platform, with railway employees and passengers posing for the photographer, and a locomotive with freight trucks on the line.

Dates: 1887
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Junee Junction, station exterior, 1887

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086E/6
Scope and Contents 345 x 262 mm. A view of the station buildings and entrance, with passers by posing for the photographer. These attractive railway buildings proved to be a good example of the railway's role in economic expansion: 'The original township is five miles away from Junee Junction, but now in the vicinity of the station a new township has been formed. It contains several hotels, two brick-yards, timber yard, gas-works (for supplying the Railway carriages), and a flour-mill is proposed' (NSW...
Dates: 1887
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).