ARMY TROOP TRAIN AT CLAREMONT STATION
B/W print. A group of soldiers with kit bags, boarding a train at a platform on the northern side of the island platform. There is a group of soldiers, a man in suit and hat bending over next to the train and an officer walking behind them. There is a tree on the platform and at the far end of the island platform on the right are the steps leading to the overhead bridge which leads to Shenton Road. Written on the rear of the original [Aussie soldiers ready to board train heading to Northam at Claremont Ry station 6/15/42
The platform where the men are boarding from is no longer there. It was on the northern side between the island platform and the goods shed and was used at Royal Show time and during the war for troop trains, departing and arriving.
Other items from Claremont Museum
- CLAREMONT RAILWAY STATION
- PHOTOGRAPHS OF LAKE CLAREMONT RETIRED MENS' GOLF CLUB & MEMBERS
- FORREST FAMILY MEMBERS AT 83 BAY VIEW TERRACE
- LAKEWAY DRIVE IN THEATRE
- MINDEROO, BAY VIEW TERRACE 83
- SWANBOURNE FOOTBALL CLUB 1928
- CHRIST CHURCH GRAMMAR SCHOOL BOYS AT CLAREMONT BATHS
- FURNISS FAMILY PHOTOS
- PMG POSTMEN AT REAR OF CLAREMONT POST OFFICE
- EAST CLAREMONT PRACTISING SCHOOL FOOTBALL TEAM, 1918
- CLAREMONT BATHS 1925
- CLAREMONT RAILWAY STATION MASTER'S HOUSE