Bungaree History Walk
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  • The Wathaurungs
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    • The Legend of Bunjil
  • The Bungaree Blacksmiths
    • The Chisholm's
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    • The Cyclone Destroys a Blacksmith
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  • The Bungaree Hotels
    • Grand Junction
    • Bridge Hotel
    • Morning Star
    • Horse and Jockey Hotel
    • Robbery at the Morning Star
    • The Cyclone Destroys a Hotel
  • The Bungaree Bank
    • The Bankers
    • Inside the bank
    • The Holey Incident
    • The Blacksmith's Joke
    • The Bungaree Bank Closes
  • The Bungaree Police Station
    • Stories about the Police Station
    • The Truck Crash
    • Archaeological Survey
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  • The Bungaree Railway Station
    • The Train Wreck
    • The Busy Bungaree Station
    • Interview with Mr Lawless
    • Bungaree Railway Photos
    • The Bungaree Station Closes
  • The Bungaree Shops
    • The Chalmers Shop
    • Bottom Shop
    • Top Shop
    • The Lolly Shop and Butcher
    • Interviews about the Shops
    • Things the Shops Sold
  • The Bungaree Schools
    • The First School
    • The Bluestone School
    • The Current School
    • Interviews with Past Students
    • Bungaree School Photos
  • The Bungaree Mechanics' Institute
    • A Cyclone Destroys the Hall
  • St John's Anglican Church
    • Parish Life
    • Improvements to St John's
  • The Bungaree Fire Brigade
    • Black Friday
    • Fighting Fires
    • Early Fire Fighting Equipment
    • Bungaree CFA
    • The Mt Warrenheip Fire
    • The Captain visits the school
  • St Michael's Church, School and Convent
    • St Michael's School
    • St Michael's Church
    • St Michael's Convent
  • The Bungaree Recreation Oval
    • The Bungaree Footy Club
    • The Bungaree Netball Club
    • Interviews about the Institute
    • The Cricket and Tennis Clubs
  • The Making of the History Walk
  • Contact Details and Bibliography
  • Extra Information, photos and songs
  • Feedback Blog

The Busy Bungaree Station


At spud harvest time, Bungaree became the busiest station in Victoria. Below Mr Eddie Keeble remembers what is was like. 
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Eddie Keeble remembers the station. Laura Wade drew the picture above.
The rail was the life blood of Bungaree...items of farm machinery arrived by rail truck and a crane would be used to unload it...bullock teams would arrive with jinkers loaded with telephone poles from the Bullarook forest. The poles were loaded by crane onto special rail trucks...on one occasion I saw rail trucks being loaded with cabbages, grown on Mr Wilmot's property at Bullarook, for transport to Melbourne. Eddie Keeble. 
  
Max Lawless remembers how busy the station was:
People, spuds, chaff, oats and wheat could get transported. One of the tracks went out to the racecourse. The others tracks were used by the Ballarat to Melbourne trains to transport the goods.

The mail was hung on a stand and a man on the train would hook the bag off as the train went past. That way the train did not need to stop.

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Train passing through Bungaree. Tinney Brothers shed in the background. 1976.
Some of the Workers' Names
Steve Lawless was one of the workers at the railway station. Daniel Brady worked at the station for 10 years as a head porter from Dunnstown. He left the station on September 1900.

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