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Date : Dec 1989, catalogued 17 May 2000
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Photographer : John Hurst
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Medium : Kodachrome, slide number 18295
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Description : "No Road" the sign says, and there certainly are a few roads missing in this photo. The area to the left of the line across to the water tanks was once a thriving engine roundhouse, turntable, coaling stage and watering facilities, now all gone bar the turntable pit and the water tanks. In a sense, the sign is a forlorn protest against the intrusion of roads into the railway scene, such that the thriving interstate traffic is now reduced to the occasional through goods that no longer even stops at this point. Most of the freight traffic, and virtually all passenger traffic now goes by road -- at least, what doesn't go by air!
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