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. My interest stems from my husband's connection to the Wrightson family and Bray family. George Wrightson (1815-1885) and his family came to Newcastle with the first train. Thomas Bray (1821-1893) was a sawyer from Cornwall who worked as a sleeper cutter.