Indian Pacific Railway Journey IV Broken Hill B (8/26/2025)

Tuesday, August 26, 2025 (continued)

Mine shaft lifts displayed at the Line of Lode Miners Memorial

Ruins of underground locomotive and transport cars (KSS)

Line of Lode Miners Memorial (2001,
by Angus Barron, Steve Kelly & Dario Palumbo)

Line of Lode Miners Memorial

Listed is every Broken Hill miner who lost his life
due to mining since 1883

Given are name, date of death, age,
mining company, and reason for death

The last miner named was crushed by
machinery in August 2019

Broken Hill Giant Bench (2002) 

Ha! ...trying to get the entire Indian Pacific train in one shot

The Ghan Mural (2017) depicts The Ghan train that makes
the North-South journey to its sister, the West-East
Indian Pacific train; also shown are the Afghan Cameleers

The Ghan train does not run through Broken Hill, but it is named for the cameleers who were instrumental in the development of the Australian outback from the 1860s-1930s. Camel trains transported goods through the arid land more successfully than horses. Camels brought the supplies to build the railroads, which then supplanted them. The camel drivers came from diverse regions of the Middle East, but the term Afghan, then Ghan was generalized to all cameleers. Broken Hill had a significant population of Afghans, and established the first mosque in New South Wales in 1887.

Broken Hill Station (1905) of the Sulphide Street Railway,
and was a terminal of the Silverton Tramway Company that
transported silver, lead, and zinc ore to Port Pirie, South Australia

A conductor and nurse performed a skit to explain
the history of Broken Hill

W Class Locomotive #24 (1951) was used to haul ore

Silverton Tramway Co  Y Class Locomotive #1 (1888)

In addition to the Railway Museum, other museums were housed at the station.

John Brothers Joyland (mid 20C amusement park) Museum:

Joyland rocking dog toy (KSS)

Merry-go-round

Arcade artifacts

Hospital Museum:

Hospital artifacts

Vivian Bullwinkel, a local nurse who
completed military training and joined the
Australian Armed Services in Singapore in 1941;
she was the sole nursing survivor of the
Bangka Island Massacre in 1942 of unarmed
nurses and wounded Allied soldiers

Transport Pavilion:

Broken Hill's First Ambulance (1890)

Horse Ambulance (used 1897-1940)

3'6" gauge pedal powered gangers inspection quad (1890)

Migrant Museum:

Kumpanija/traditional sword dance
costumes from Blato, Croatia

Afghan cameleer

Photo of a camel train

Silver City Comet (1937) was the first fully air-conditioned
diesel-powered train in the British Empire

Albert Kersten Mining and Minerals Museum:

A sampling of minerals

Parcels office of the station

Sculpture with faces of miners by Pro Hart

Barrier Daily Truth building (1888-1889)

Locomotive 2880 (2004, by Geoff Demain); 2880
is the postal code for Broken Hill

Locomotive 2004 (2024, by Geoff Demain); 2004 was the
year the town celebrated the its 100th Rotary anniversary

Lunch: Grape Picker's Lunch with Adelaide Hills
heritage apple salad, glazed ham, Section28 artisan cheese,
Harris Smokehouse salmon paté, rosella flower chutney
and piccalilli/mustard-based relish

Lunch Dessert: Old English Toffee Ice Cream with
fresh berries and saltbush brandy snap shards

Indian Pacific Dining Car

Dinner Main: Roasted Chicken Breast with Warrigal Greens
pesto, corn and potato salsa, and a rosella flower jus

Another Dinner Main: Junee Lamb Rump with potato and
parsnip purée, Bearnaise sauce and Portobello mushrooms

Dinner Dessert: Opera Cake with whipstick wattle cream
anglaise and fresh berries

Another Dinner Dessert: Eton Mess: Season fruits,
double cream and crisp meringue

Next: Indian Pacific Railway Journey V Blue Mountains A.