General News
9 September, 2024
Special passenger train visit to Beulah…and again soon
With overcast weather at midday on Thursday week ago, August 22, the atmosphere at the Beulah Train Station was enthusiastic and bubbling over with anticipation, with many waiting see the Seymour Heritage Rail train pull in to the Beulah station.
But with the train failing to show up on time, the crowd was informed it would be another hour until it would arrive.
This took some by surprise when it arrived slightly earlier, as the sound of the train resulted in many rushing to the station to catch a sight of its’ arrival with quite a fair number of observers on both sides of the rails.
This also included students from the Beulah Primary School greeting the train travellers with welcoming signs, something one passenger cheerfully admitted was one of the highlights of the trip so far.
The Thursday was the fifth day of their 17 day journey for the 82 travellers.
Having started their trip all the way from Sydney on a 17 day journey around New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia, there was little time to enjoy the scenery before local identities -Darryn Jockers and Alan ’Boots’ Lehmann arrived on the bus to welcome the guests to the town and to take the first half of the travellers to the football club rooms, with the second half following soon after.
Members of the Beulah Progress Association as well as volunteers provided excellent hospitality, serving up a delicious lunch of either Butter Chicken or Beef Stroganoff, followed by a dessert of fruit salad, ice cream and slices for the guests.
By 2:15pm, everyone was back at the station, taking one last look around, or ducking into the railway station Patchwork room to admire what was on display, before setting off to view the Rosebery silos and the next destination.
The next trip for Seymour Heritage Rail to the region will be the ‘Spirit of the Wimmera’ trip in early October to co-incide with Murtoa’s big weekend. The train will do two separate shuttle runs to Rainbow and Hopetoun over the weekend. Watch for more details of the next tour in the Herald soon.