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Cockle Creek News

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…barrie coppock … blind creek … boolaroo … brush creek … con lambert … dave berry … first bus service … jim bourke … john graham … ken wiltshire … kevin thompson … lance weir … leigh neilson … len trolman … les needs … margaret graham … miss dulcie rowbottom … mrs margaret gay … ray boyce … salty creek … stan graham … steam……tram … super…

Lake Macquarie Park, known as Speers Point Park

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…Steam trams … In 1910 when the steam tram line was opened between Plattsburg and West Wallsend the Council was already negotiating with the Minister of Public Works for extension of the tramway from Brush Creek at Young Wallsend to Speers Point, with an expected outlay of £19,470 for the 3 and a quarter……Competition…

Argenton

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…Early Transport: … In 1912 the steam tram line to Speers Point was opened. The line ran down the centre of what is now the main street but at that time it was a double avenue, Hampden Avenue on the east of the line and Jersey Avenue on the west.……The steam tram gave Argenton transport connections with…

Toronto-Fassifern Rail Line

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…Upon reaching the Toronto Hotel a handsome and commodious steam launch was found to be in waiting, and the visitors were taken for a run round the lake. The tram then returned to Fassifern, and met the Sydney express, by which a large number of gentlemen, including Messrs.……This eventually happened,…

The Stone Road in Argenton

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…The reason for this double avenued main street was established in 1912 with the opening of the steam powered tram line (23).……Image 9 Steam tram at the old wharf, Toronto. Photograph taken c.1891. Note the use of stone for the retaining wall of the old wharf, yet it is not used for the wharf path…

Main Road

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…Steam trams travelled along the right-hand side of Main Road to Speers Point Park from 1912 until early in the 1930s. The old Boolaroo Wine Bar (Talamini's) was on Main Road. Opposite the school during the 1920s or 30s, Robert Spinks operated a butcher shop with an ice works on the back.…

Glendale

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…The steam tram ran to the west of Lake Road from 1910 to 1930. In 1931 a bus service to Speers Point passed through Glendale and became a government service in 1937. The bus rotunda with the shingle roof was built in 1932 and demolished in 1969.…

Speers Point

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…Early Transport: … Steam trams were introduced in 1912 but ceased operating in 1930 for financial reasons. This service connected to the Newcastle-West Wallsend tramline at Brush Creek (Edgeworth). In 1920 Harry Linsley began a ferry service by rowing-boat across Cockle Creek.……It was not allowed to…

Booragul

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…Early Transport: … Booragul was conveniently located to take advantage of Speers Point steam tram and ferries. … Railway: … The Great Northern Railway of 1887 did not pass through Booragul but took the direct route over the hill to Teralba.…

West Wallsend

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…In 1910 a steam tram service replaced the horse bus to Wallsend, a distance of 7 miles. There was a junction to Speers Point at Brush Creek (Edgeworth). … Railway: … The early coal companies constructed their own private railways from West Wallsend to a junction with the main line near Cockle Creek.……A…