Katoomba railway platform, pictured here, opened in 1874. It was originally called The Crushers, and serviced the settlement around a quarry and rock crushing plant established in 1860. Kerosene shale and coal were also mined in the Blue Mountains, near Katoomba until 1933.
The settlement changed when the railway came. Trains brought holidaymakers, bushwalkers and visitors who could not get there any other way. The area blossomed into a tourist destination and health resort during World War 1. It remains to this day
Photography by Charles Kerry Studio
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Post by Sandra McEwen, Principal Curator
