Hi, Would it be too much trouble to check if it mentions the coming of the railway to Morpeth? My ancestor (WHITEHEAD) sold up his Wheat Sheaf Hotel on the banks of the Hunter there in June 1865 and moved to Muswellbrook because it was destined to be the site of the Queen's Wharf Railway Station. TIA Judy The Eccles Family wrote: >Hi Everyone, >I found a magazine in my local newsagency about the Great Northern Railway. >On Friday March 30 2007, the railway will be celebrating it's 150 >anniversery. The first line was from Newcastle to Maitland. >The Commemorative Issue was put out by the Australian Railway Historical >Society. >It contains lots of pictures of trains and the story of the Railway in >Newcastle but there is no information on the working people of the railway, >although there is some information on the contractor Wright and Randle. >... > >