Tea & Sugar Train Exhibition Documentary
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
- The Tea & Sugar Train Project gathered momentum in mid-2008 with Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and UniSA in Adelaide uniting to create an interactive exhibition for the National Railway Museum in Port Adelaide. This documentary is just one part of the display which is now open for the public to enjoy.
Director/Editor: Matthew Wigg, Animator/Artist: Amy Charlick, Script Writer/Music: Paul Oldham
1976 I was 7 years old and the malbooma trip to meet the tea and sugar was the highlight of the week.
Ahh yes. Nostalgia comes and kicks you in the chest.
I worked in a small place called Winbring, roughly 100k's West of
Tarcoola as a fettler and i remember the Tea and sugar train well.
Had to wait up all ours of the night, usually Friday and into Saturday for it to pull in to buy our groceries and get paid. The pay was not that flash considering you lived without air con, tv or telephone. Our electricity was a petrol powered generator out side with an allowance of 4 gallons per week. Everything you bought off the train came directly out of my pay, and they were more expensive than your local supermarket back in the major towns. By the time i got my pay, it was hardly worth picking up, and i can remember when i went to get paid one night, i actually owed them instead of collecting. Also a rental fee for housing came out of my pay.
The Tea and Sugar train may have been the life line for people working along the railway, but it was tough hard work in harsh conditions and virtually unrewarding money wise.
You missed the memory of the Rev. Heinrich Noack who acted as the Chaplain for the people on the line. He traveled 4 times a year, from Port Augusta to Kalgoorlie, where he remained for a week, and returned the following week. He was usually was made very welcome, but sometimes shunned by those that did not want his Christian message. A very physically tough person who talked to all and tried to give a service that many take for granted. Unfortunately the Nullarbor was partially populated by people that were running away from what he offered!
Cook was a great place to live and work.
Avis French (Avis McCoy) what a beautiful lady, and Mrs Nancy Harris.
i remember Alf Harris well. as a child! Santa!
I worked on the Nullabor for the Commonwealth railways as a 17 year old Pom fresh out from the UK in 1965. Can anyone tell me how they maintain the railway these days? Are there still gangs every few miles? What are their living conditions like?