Mudgee History | Horse drawn rail train to Mudgee

By Roy Cameron
June 16 2017 - 7:00am
Road Forward: Sir William Denison wanted the widest possible transport for the colony at the lowest cost. He preferred horse drawn trains, on wooden tracks.
Road Forward: Sir William Denison wanted the widest possible transport for the colony at the lowest cost. He preferred horse drawn trains, on wooden tracks.

 Horse drawn rail train to Mudgee

Looking backwards to the mid 1850s it is difficult to conceive that the three  Hunter River towns, Maitland, Muswellbrook and Singleton, without any railway service of their own were ardent supporters of a light horse  line to Mudgee from the Hunter.

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