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Shire of Toodyay > Records

SUNDAY TIMES PICNIC TRAIN, TOODYAY

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1981

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Community events & celebrations

Overview

A small black and white photo of people disembarking from train carriages at Toodyay.
They are carrying eskies. Eight carriages (left to middle of photo) can be seen. Trees on the right and in the distance.
People are walking along the railway embankment and down to lower ground in the centre of the picture.
Tall man carrying a young girl in the foreground.

Historical information

The Sunday Times Blanket Appeal Train, carrying over 800 passengers, came to Toodyay for a three-hour visit.
One of the biggest passenger trains ever to stop at Toodyay, the crowd enjoyed a picnic lunch, and enjoyed various town attractions, such as part of a new display on the life and exploits of Toodyay’s bushranger Moondyne Joe, at Connor’s Mill.
The illustrated panels prepared by Scott Properjohn had been completed, to be later followed by three-dimensional dioramas of Toodyay and a re-construction of Joe’s cell in Fremantle Prison.

Details

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-37-2001.1162

Item type

Themes

Width

11.1000 cm

Height or length

16.3000 cm

Inscriptions and markings

Written on ink on back: "Sunday Times picnic train at Toodyay 1981."

Year

Primary significance criteria

Historic significance

Geotag

-31.551442930047, 116.4650696023

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