Snapshot of when train ran to Kurrajong

Justine Doherty
Updated August 14 2017 - 5:01pm, first published 12:31pm

This is part of the massive destination board in Central’s country trains hall from 1906 until 1982. I remember it well (and the neon Penfold’s sign which had a bunch of grapes with red wine dripping out of it – a highlight of any visit there when I was a kid). It’s now at the Powerhouse Museum at Ultimo. I looked for the Richmond Line – and there it was, like the sighting of a unicorn – ‘All stations to Kurrajong’. The board has been set up from a timetable from a Sunday in 1937, which of course was right in the middle of when the Pansy ran to Kurrajong (1926-52). I also remember catching the old diesel train out to Richmond, and cows running away from it around Vineyard as it was so noisy. 

Justine Doherty

Justine Doherty

Senior journalist