There's another thing up Bourke way, Ross, that when I was up there always made me feel a bit sad about how things have gone.
That is the railway line from Nyngan to Bourke.
Dead straight and flat, 200 kilometres of toil and sweat by the men who built that railway. And I assume, though I don't know, that Henry Lawson travelled on the train along there. It is left now, rusting and falling to pieces.
There's still a railway station at Bourke, last I knew.
I don't know what it is used for now, it was a sort of tourist office when I lived there.
I think that shutting down the rural railways in NSW was a huge tragedy for the country.
I suspect that was part of the reason for the demise of places like Toorale ( I could be wrong )
