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Re: IT'S ACADEMIC - EASY ONE! -AND ANOTHER NOT-SO-EASY
- Subject: Re: IT'S ACADEMIC - EASY ONE! -AND ANOTHER NOT-SO-EASY
- From: Neil Waller <nwaller@dehaa.sa.gov.au>
- Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 09:01:30 +1030
- Newsgroups: aus.rail
- Organization: Department of Environment Heritage and Aboriginal Affairs
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Krel wrote:
>
> Four Names (four renamings)
> Peat's Ferry-Brooklyn-Hawkesbury River-Hawkesbury-Hawkesbury River.
>
Why is the station Hawkesbury River? - the adjacent town is Brooklyn, apparently
named after the builders of the first Hawkesbury Bridge, the Brooklyn Bridge
Company of New York.
The station has had the "correct" name once and an "incorrect" name
4 times, including currently. Were I going to Brooklyn by train I would not
suspect that the station was Hawkesbury River, unless I had prior knowledge.
If anyone hasn't been there it's quite a pleasant spot.
--
Neil Waller (nwaller@denr.sa.gov.au)
Department of Environment Heritage and Aboriginal Affairs
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