Hawker Railway Avenue of Honour

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The Old Ghan Railway (Narrow Guage), Hawker, South Australia.

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The Hawker railway station as it is today was completed in 1885 by Bacon & Brewer. The first original timber station building burnt down on Monday 14th January 1884. It was presumed that Railway station building fire was caused by a grass fire started on a hot day near or around the station building . The Station Master received severe burns trying to save the Government property and only succeeded in saving books from the fire. The Avenue of Honour includes the railway station, dam, water tank, stand pipe & goods shed

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Lat: -31.88663 Lng: 138.41958