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Bathurst railway station. The cosy feeling of NSW railway stations is unmatched elsewhere in the country. For more than twenty years after the inaugural Indian-Pacific, Lithgow was a regular stop. The train would halt in Lithgow’s sprawling railway yard, and while passengers ate dinner those in the know could detect from a shimmer in the soup plate or wine glass the bump as new locomotives eased in against the buffers at the front of the train. Lithgow was, and is, the western end of the electrified railway system of New South Wales, and from Lithgow on to Broken Hill the Indian-Pacific was powered by dieselelectric locomotives of the NSW Railways.
With two associates he pegged the first claim on the Barrier Range, and with them and his boss, the station manager McCulloch, the overseer, the storekeeper and a station hand he formed a syndicate which eventually became the Broken Hill Proprietary Company, BHP. political development. This was not the flash in the pan wealth of gold. The wealth of Broken Hill was, and is, in industrial metals, lead and zinc, and the sterling metal, silver. Together, the rich ores of Broken Hill would finance the beginning of industrial Australia.
Mullock is the rubbish of mining, the rock that lay between the miners and ore seams, blasted out and lifted to the surface. It does little for the Broken Hill landscape, but it’s the price of more than a century of prosperity for a city which otherwise could not exist. 51 rich were its mines, and so prosperous its people, that in 1886 a company was formed in the town to build a railway connection across the border to the South Australian railhead, Cockburn. Governments considered railways to be their monopoly, so the new company called its iron road a Tramway, the Silverton Tramway, and to this day it owns and operates the yellow diesel-electrics, painted bright yellow and boldly lettered ‘Silverton’ that work around the Broken Hill railway yards.